Job 26:3

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," "that hath no wisdom" &c., is of course Job himself; and he expresses his admiration of the contribution made by Bildad to the clearing up of his perplexities and the solution of the riddle of his life. It is not quite clear whether Job means to say: "I amweak and unnerved, perplexed and ignorant, and how mightily in all this thou hast helped me!" or, whether he is not thinking with Bildad's mind and giving bitter expression to the thoughts which that speaker doubtless entertained of his own performance, and of the effect it should have on the person whom he addressed: "Doubtless thou hast abundantly instructed and strengthened the weak and ignorant man before thee!" The former sense is the more natural, the other fits better into connexion with Job 26:4.