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Selected Verse: Job 26:2 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 26:2 |
Strong Concordance |
How hast thou helped [05826] him that is without power [03581]? how savest [03467] thou the arm [02220] that hath no [03808] strength [05797]? |
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King James |
How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
JOB'S REPLY. (Job 26:1-14)
without power . . . no strength . . . no wisdom--The negatives are used instead of the positives, powerlessness, &c., designedly (so Isa 31:8; Deu 32:21). Granting I am, as you say (Job 18:17; Job 15:2), powerlessness itself, &c. "How hast thou helped such a one?"
savest--supportest. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
How hast thou helped him that is without power? - It has been doubted whether this refers to Job himself, the two friends of Bildad, or to the Deity. Rosenmuller. The connection, however, seems to demand that it should be referred to Job himself. It is sarcastical. Bildad had come as a friend and comforter. He had, also, in common with Eliphaz and Zophar, taken upon himself the office of teacher and counsellor. He had regarded Job as manifesting great weakness in his views of God and of his government; as destitute of all strength to bear up aright under trials, and now all that he had done to aid one so weak was found in the impertinent and irrelevant generalities of his brief speech. Job is indignant that one with such pretensions should have said nothing more to the purpose. Herder, however, renders this as if it related wholly to God, and it cannot be denied that the Hebrew would bear this:
"Whom helpest thou? Him who hath no strength?
Whom dost thou vindicate? Him whose arm hath no power?
To whom give counsel? One without wisdom?
Truly much wisdom hast thou taught him."
How savest thou the arm that hath no strength? - That is, your remarks are not adapted to invigorate the feeble. He had come professedly to comfort and support his afflicted friend in his trials. Yet Job asks what there was in his observations that was fitted to produce this effect? Instead of declaiming on the majesty and greatness of God, he should have said something that was adapted to relieve an afflicted and a troubled soul. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| How hast thou helped him - This seems a species of irony. How wonderfully hast thou counselled the unskilful and strengthened the weak! Alas for you! ye could not give what ye did not possess! In this way the Chaldee understood these verses: "Why hast thou pretended to give succor, when thou art without strength? And save, while thy arm is weak? Why hast thou given counsel, when thou art without understanding? And supposest that thou hast shown the very essence of wisdom?" |
2 Should a wise man [02450] utter [06030] vain [07307] knowledge [01847], and fill [04390] his belly [0990] with the east wind [06921]?
17 His remembrance [02143] shall perish [06] from the earth [0776], and he shall have no name [08034] in the street [06440] [02351].
21 They have moved me to jealousy [07065] with that which is not [03808] God [0410]; they have provoked me to anger [03707] with their vanities [01892]: and I will move them to jealousy [07065] with those which are not a people [05971]; I will provoke them to anger [03707] with a foolish [05036] nation [01471].
8 Then shall the Assyrian [0804] fall [05307] with the sword [02719], not of a mighty man [0376]; and the sword [02719], not of a mean man [0120], shall devour [0398] him: but he shall flee [05127] from [06440] the sword [02719], and his young men [0970] shall be discomfited [04522].
1 But Job [0347] answered [06030] and said [0559],
2 How hast thou helped [05826] him that is without power [03581]? how savest [03467] thou the arm [02220] that hath no [03808] strength [05797]?
3 How hast thou counselled [03289] him that hath no [03808] wisdom [02451]? and how hast thou plentifully [07230] declared [03045] the thing as it is [08454]?
4 To whom hast thou uttered [05046] words [04405]? and whose spirit [05397] came [03318] from thee?
5 Dead [07496] things are formed [02342] from under the waters [04325], and the inhabitants [07931] thereof.
6 Hell [07585] is naked [06174] before him, and destruction [011] hath no covering [03682].
7 He stretcheth out [05186] the north [06828] over the empty place [08414], and hangeth [08518] the earth [0776] upon nothing [01099].
8 He bindeth up [06887] the waters [04325] in his thick clouds [05645]; and the cloud [06051] is not rent [01234] under them.
9 He holdeth back [0270] the face [06440] of his throne [03678], and spreadeth [06576] his cloud [06051] upon it.
10 He hath compassed [02328] the waters [06440] [04325] with bounds [02706], until the day [0216] and night [02822] come to an end [08503].
11 The pillars [05982] of heaven [08064] tremble [07322] and are astonished [08539] at his reproof [01606].
12 He divideth [07280] the sea [03220] with his power [03581], and by his understanding [08394] [08394] he smiteth [04272] through the proud [07293].
13 By his spirit [07307] he hath garnished [08235] the heavens [08064]; his hand [03027] hath formed [02342] the crooked [01281] serpent [05175].
14 Lo, these are parts [07098] of his ways [01870]: but how little [08102] a portion [01697] is heard [08085] of him? but the thunder [07482] of his power [01369] who can understand [0995]?