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Selected Verse: Job 26:3 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Job 26:3 |
Strong Concordance |
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]? |
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King James |
How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? |
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] |
plentifully . . . the thing as it is--rather, "abundantly--wisdom." Bildad had made great pretensions to abundant wisdom. How has he shown it? |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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 him in his sorrows, he had a right to expect more than he had found in his speech.
And how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? - The word rendered "the thing as it is" (תשׁיה tûshı̂yâh) denotes properly a setting upright, uprightness - from ישׁה yāshah; then help, deliverance, Job 6:13; purpose, undertaking, enterprise, Job 5:12; then counsel, wisdom, understanding, Job 11:6; Job 12:16. Here it is synonymous with reason, wisdom, or truth. The word rendered "plentifully" (לרב larôb) means "for multitude," or abundantly, and the sense here is, that Bildad had made extraordinary pretensions to wisdom, and that this was the result. This short, irrelevant speech was all; a speech that communicated nothing new, and that met none of the real difficulties of the case. |
16 With him is strength [05797] and wisdom [08454]: the deceived [07683] and the deceiver [07686] are his.
6 And that he would shew [05046] thee the secrets [08587] of wisdom [02451], that they are double [03718] to that which is [08454]! Know [03045] therefore that God [0433] exacteth [05382] of thee less than thine iniquity [05771] deserveth.
12 He disappointeth [06565] the devices [04284] of the crafty [06175], so that their hands [03027] cannot perform [06213] their enterprise [08454].
13 Is not my help [05833] in me? and is wisdom [08454] driven quite [05080] from me?