But Job answered and said,
How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
how has thou (Bildad had produced no argument to refute Job's doctrine; and therefore Job ironically admires the assistance which Bildad had given to his friends in their extremity, and the instruction he had afforded him in his perplexity.)
Job 12:2 No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
1 Kings 18:27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry …
helped
Job 4:3,4 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands…
Job 6:25 How forcible are right words! but what does your arguing reprove?
Job 16:4,5 I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, …
Isaiah 35:3,4 Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees…
Isaiah 40:14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him …
Isaiah 41:5-7 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, …
How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
Dead things (Or, 'The giants (rephaim) are in anguish under the waters and their inhabitants;' probably in allusion to the destruction of the earth by the deluge.)
Job 41:1 Can you draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord …
Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, …
Psalm 104:25,26 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, …
Ezekiel 29:3-5 Speak, and say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, …
and. or, with
Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
bindeth up
Job 36:29 Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the noise …
Job 38:9,37 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling …
Genesis 1:6,7 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the middle of the waters, …
Psalm 135:7 He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes …
Proverbs 30:4 Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? who has gathered the …
Jeremiah 10:13 When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, …
thick clouds
Job 37:11-16 Also by watering he wearies the thick cloud: he scatters his bright cloud…
Psalm 18:10,11 And he rode on a cherub, and did fly: yes, he did fly on the wings …
and the cloud
Isaiah 5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dig; but there …
He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
pillars
1 Samuel 2:8 He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the beggar from …
Psalm 18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills …
Haggai 2:21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the …
Hebrews 12:26,27 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, …
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the …
Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose …
are astonished
Job 15:15 Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not …
He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
divideth
Exodus 14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused …
Psalm 29:10 The LORD sits on the flood; yes, the LORD sits King for ever.
Psalm 74:13 You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the …
Psalm 93:3,4 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their …
Psalm 114:2-7 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion…
Isaiah 51:15 But I am the LORD your God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: …
Jeremiah 31:35 Thus said the LORD, which gives the sun for a light by day, and the …
he smiteth
Job 40:11,12 Cast abroad the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is …
Isaiah 2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be on every one that is proud …
Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, …
James 4:6 But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but …
the proud. Heb. pride
Psalm 89:9,10 You rule the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, you still them…
Isaiah 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the …
By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
