Job 26:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? ”

• Job 26:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? - As he had undertaken to give counsel to another, and to suggest views that might be adapted to elevate his mind in his depression, and to conso...

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• Job 26:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Beginning of Job's Reply to Bildad. He speaks sarcastically of the helpfulness and instructiveness of Bildad's speech. He must have been inspired ( Job 26:4 )!

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• Job 26:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  as it is . the thing that is. See note on "sound wisdom". Proverbs 2:7 .

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• Job 26:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

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• Job 26:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? Without power ... no strength ... no wisdom. The negatives are used instead of the positives, po...

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• Job 26:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Eighth Speech (Job 26, 27) 1-4. Job taunts Bildad with the worthlessness of his remarks as a solution of the problem. 2, 3, 4 are spoken ironically.

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• Job 26:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The thing as it is? — Rather, How hast thou plentifully declared sound knowledge?

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• Job 26:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXII. THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS Job 26:1-14 ; Job 27:1-23 Job SPEAKS BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm. "How hast thou helped one without power! How hast thou saved the...

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• Job 26:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Outskirts of His Ways” Job 26:1-14 Job taunts Bildad with his reply as having imparted no help or thought. He then proceeds, Job 26:5-14 , to give a description of God's power as manifest...

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• Job 26:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We come next to Job's answer. The reply to Bildad occupies but one chapter, which is characterized from beginning to end by scorn for the man who had no more to say. In a series of fierce exclamation...

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• Job 26:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ But Job answered and said, (2) How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? (3) How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast...

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• Job 26:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  How hast thou counselled [him that hath] no wisdom ?.... A man deprived of wisdom has need of counsel, and it should be given him; and he does well both to ask and take it; and be it so, as if Job s...

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• Job 26:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  How hast thou counselled [him that hath] no wisdom? and [how] hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? Ver. 3. How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? ] q.d. Thou lookest u...

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• Job 26:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? Me, whom thou takest to be void of understanding, and whom, therefore, thou oughtest to have instructed with wholesome counsels, instead of those i...

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• Job 26:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  BILDAD'S WORDS FUTILE IN JOB'S CASE (vv.1-4) Job begins a reply that continues through six Chapter s, and his friends are totally silenced. His language is amazing, specially considering the len...

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• Job 26:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Reproof of Bildad. B. C. 1520.       1 But Job answered and said,   2 How hast thou help...

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• Job 26:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Him that hath no wisdom; either, 1. God: thou hast in effect undertaken to teach God how to govern the world. Or rather, 2. Me, whom you take to be a man void of understanding, Job 11:2,3 ,...

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• Job 26:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD Job, more alive to Bildad’s want of sympathy than to the excellence of his sentiments in regard to the Divine perfections, speaks somewhat petulantly,—certainly with irony...

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• Job 26:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 26:5 . Dead things, הרפאים ha-raphaim, the raphaim are formed from under the waters. SCHULTENS reads, Manes orcinorum intremiscunt, de subter aquis, et la habitatores eorum. The manes of...

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• Job 26:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But Job answered and said. The transcendent greatness of God I. God appears incomprehensibly great in that portion of the universe that is brought under human observation. 1. In connection w...

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• Job 26:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The long discourse of Job now begins, which forms the central and most solid mass of the book. It continues through six chapters (Job 26-31.). In it Job, after hastily brushing aside...

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• Job 26:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Sharp Ironical Reproof

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• Job 26:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 20:20 ; Acts 20:27 ; Job 12:3 ; Job 13:5 ; Job 15:8-10 ; Job 17:10 ; Job 32:11-13 ; Job 33:3 ; Job 33:33 ; Job 38:2 ; Job 6:13 ; Proverbs 8:6-9 ; Psalms 49:1-4 ; Psalms 71:15-18

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