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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...
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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...
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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)!...
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AS IT IS. the thing that is. See note on "sound wisdom". Proverbs 2:7....
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_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...
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Job sarcastically expresses his admiration of Bildad's speech, and
gratitude for the help it has been to him....
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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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...
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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)....
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THE THING AS IT IS? — Rather, _How hast thou plentifully declared
sound knowledge?
_...
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מַה ־יָּ֭עַצְתָּ לְ לֹ֣א חָכְמָ֑ה וְ֝
תוּשִׁי
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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A SHARP IRONICAL REPROOF...
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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 str...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Job 26:3 counseled H3289 (H8804) no H3808 wisdom H2451 declared H3045
(H8689) H7230 advice H8454
counselled
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 20:20; Acts 20:27; Job 12:3; Job 13:5; Job 15:8;...