3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!
3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
3 How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
3 What wonderful advice you've given to a mixed-up man! What amazing insights you've provided!
3 How have you counseled one who has no wisdom? And how have you declared sound advice to many?
3 How you have enlightened my stupidity! What wise advice you have offered!
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 26:3
Commentary on Job 26:1-4
(Read Job 26:1-4)
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 knows how to speak what is proper for the weary, Isaiah 50:4; and his ministers should not grieve those whom God would not have made sad. We are often disappointed in our expectations from our friends who should comfort us; but the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, never mistakes, nor fails of his end.