Job 26:4

To whom — For whose instruction hast thou uttered these things? For mine? Dost thou think I do not know, that which the meanest persons are not unacquainted with; that God is incomparably greater and better than his creatures? Whose spirit — Who inspired thee with this profound discourse of thine?

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To whom hast thou uttered words? - Jerome renders this, Quem docere voluisti? “Whom do you wish to teach?” The sense is, “Do you attempt to teach...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit (c) came from thee? (c) That is, moves you to speak this?
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 (...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

spirit. Hebrew. neshamah . App-16.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? Whose spirit came from thee? - Mr. Good renders the verse thus: From whom hast thou...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? For whose instruction were thy words meant? If for me, I know the subject (G...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

To whom hast thou uttered words? ] i.e. surely not to Job who knows it already. 5-14. The manifestations of God's power and work in the world bel...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

( 4 ) To whom. — That is, “Is it not to one who had said the same thing himself? Was it not my own breath, my own teaching, that came forth from...
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 h...
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...
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...
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 tho...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

To whom hast thou uttered words ?.... That others know not; dost thou think thou art talking to an ignorant man? be it known to thee, that he knows...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? Ver. 4. To whom hast thou uttered words? ] And, as thou thinkest, words weighty,...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

To whom hast thou uttered words For whose instruction hast thou uttered these things? For mine? Dost thou think I do not know that which the meanes...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Reproof of Bildad. B. C. 1520. 1...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For whose instruction hast thou uttered these things? For mine? Dost thou think me to be so ignorant, that I do not know that which the meanest perso...
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,...
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 su...
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 brou...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Sharp Ironical Reproof
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

To whom hast thou uttered words? Did Bildad really hope to strike Job with his empty talk? Did he realize that it would not make the slightest impres...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 12:3 ; 1 John 4:1-3 ; 1 Kings 22:23 ; 1 Kings 22:24 ; Ecclesiastes 12:7 ; Job 20:3 ; Job 32:18 ; Revelation 16:13 ; Revelation...

⁴ To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

Related Commentaries of Job 26:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 26:4