Job 26:4 Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?

◄ Job 26:4 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?

English Standard Version
With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you?

New American Standard Bible
"To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit was expressed through you?

King James Bible
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Who did you speak these words to? Whose breath came out of your mouth?

International Standard Version
Who helped you say all of this? Who inspired you?"

American Standard Version
To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life?

Darby Bible Translation
For whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

Young's Literal Translation
With whom hast thou declared words? And whose breath came forth from thee?

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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, Isa 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

4. For whose instruction were thy words meant? If for me I know the subject (God's omnipotence) better than my instructor; Job 26:5-14 is a sample of Job's knowledge of it.

whose spirit—not that of God (Job 32:8); nay, rather, the borrowed sentiment of Eliphaz (Job 4:17-19; 15:14-16).