Job 26:2
1 Then Job answered:
“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
3 How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
4 To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
- KJV
- How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
- WEB
- “How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
- ASV
- How hast thou helped him that is without power! How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength!
- DARBY
- How hast thou helped the powerless; how saved the arm that is without strength!
- BLB
- “How you have helped the one without power! You have saved the arm [with] no strength!
- ÅB
- Hvor du har hjulpet den avmektige, støttet den kraftløse arm!
- OTB
- "Hvilken hjelp du har gitt til den svake!
Hvordan du har styrket armen som mangler kraft! - B1930
- Hvor du har hjulpet den avmektige, støttet den kraftløse arm!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 4:3–4
Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
Read in contextIsaiah 35:3–4
Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
Read in contextPsalms 71:9
Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
Read in contextJob 6:12
Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?
Read in contextJob 16:4–5
I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
Read in contextJob 6:25
How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?
Read in contextJob 12:2
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
Read in contextIsaiah 41:5–7
The islands see and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward.
Read in context