Job 26:3
1 Then Job answered:
2 “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
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?
5 The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
- KJV
- How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
- WEB
- How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
- ASV
- How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!
- DARBY
- How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and abundantly declared the thing as it is!
- BLB
- How you have advised one without wisdom, and have made known insight in abundance!
- ÅB
- Hvor du har gitt den uvise råd, og hvilket overmål av visdom du har lagt for dagen!
- OTB
- Hvilket råd du har gitt til den uten visdom!
Hvilken overflod av innsikt du har vist! - B1930
- Hvor du har gitt den uvise råd, og hvilket overmål av visdom du har lagt for dagen!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 32:11–13
Indeed, I waited while you spoke; I listened to your reasoning; as you searched for words,
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My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.
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But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
Read in contextJob 33:33
But if not, then listen to me; be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom.”
Read in contextActs 20:20
I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,
Read in contextJob 17:10
But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
Read in contextPsalms 49:1–4
Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,
Read in contextJob 15:8–10
Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
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