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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Job 26:3

How hast thou counseled him that hath no wisdom? For the friends had declared Job to be an ignorant fool. Their intention may have been good enough, Job bitterly declares, but they certainly had a strange way of showing their friendly Interest. And how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is, sufficiently and abundantly exhibited proper and thorough knowledge, a real understanding of matters?

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See also Job 26:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 console hi...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 26JOB'S REPLY _ 1. A sarcastic beginning (Job 26:1)_ 2. Job also knows and can speak of the greatness of God (Job 26:5) Job 26:1. You have helped me greatly, Bildad, me, who am without power...

  • 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)!...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AS IT IS. the thing that is. See note on "sound wisdom". Proverbs 2:7....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _plentifully declared the thing as it is_ Rather, PLENTIFULLY, or, abundantly, DECLARED KNOWLEDGE, or, wisdom. The word is that which occurs in ch. Job 5:12; see notes. "Him that is without power," "t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job sarcastically expresses his admiration of Bildad's speech, and gratitude for the help it has been to him....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. GREATNESS AND GOODNESS OF GOD (Job 26:1-14) 1. What a giant of comfort Bildad has been! (sarcasm) (Job 26:1-4) TEXT 26:1-4 26 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 How hast thou helped him that is with...

  • 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, powerles...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    26:3 is! (d-17) Or 'sound wisdom.'...

  • 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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 26 JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Bildad’s interruption did not impress Job. Such words would not help Job, who was still suffering. And Job thought that Bildad’s description of God was very poor. Job had studied wisdom (chapter 28)....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE THING AS IT IS? — Rather, _How hast thou plentifully declared sound knowledge? _...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מַה ־יָּ֭עַצְתָּ לְ לֹ֣א חָכְמָ֑ה וְ֝ תוּשִׁי

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS” Job 26:1 Job taunts Bildad with his reply as having imparted no help or thought. He then proceeds, Job 26:5, to give a description of God's power as manifested in Hades, i...

  • 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 exclamations...

  • 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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 shou...

  • 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 upo...

  • 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 im...

  • Leslie 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 length...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 Job derided Bildad's answer; his words were a mixture of peevishness and self-preference. Bildad ought to have laid before Job the consolations, rather than the terrors of the Almighty. Christ kn...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The 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, whom there...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 26:3 counseled H3289 (H8804) no H3808 wisdom H2451 declared H3045 (H8689) H7230 advice H8454 counselled

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad. His faith in God. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: God is infinite and incomprehensible; man's capacities to understand Him and all His ways are weak, the...

  • 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 th...

  • 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 with t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB 26:1 Job: The Power of God, Place of Wisdom, and Path of Integrity. Up until now, the dialogue between Job and his three friends has followed a pattern in which each speech by Job is followed by r...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 26:2 HOW YOU HAVE HELPED... SAVED... COUNSELED...! The presumed theological correctness of Bildad and the other two friends rings hollow. In their defense of God, they have not helped...

  • The 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 and...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 Bildad...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Job answers now this little saying of Bildad. It's his third and final answer to Job, and it's really nothing. Job answered and said, How have you helped him that is without power? how can you save...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 20:20; Acts 20:27; Job 12:3; Job 13:5; Job 15:8;...

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