Job 26:1-4

Job Declares God's Sovereignty

26¹ Then Job answered and said: ² "How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength! ³ How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! ⁴ With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you?

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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 26:1-4

Commentary on Job 26:1-4

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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.