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Job's Sarcastic Rebuke
Commentators agree that Job's words are filled with biting sarcasm. He is mocking Bildad for pretending to offer profound wisdom. Job essentially says, 'For someone claiming to have all the answers, you've offered nothing helpful or substantial.' This highlights the raw frustration of someone in pain receiving simplistic or irrelevant advice.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 26:3
18th Century
Theologian
How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? - As he had undertaken to give counsel to another, and to suggest views that migh…
Charles Ellicott
On Job 26:3
19th Century
Bishop
The thing as it is? —Rather, How have you plentifully declared sound knowledge?
John Gill
On Job 26:3
17th Century
Pastor
How have you counselled [him that has] no wisdom ?
&c.] A man deprived of wisdom has need of counsel, and it should …
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Matthew Henry
On Job 26:1–4
17th Century
Minister
Job derided Bildad's answer; his words were a mixture of peevishness and self-preference. Bildad ought to have laid before Job the consolations, ra…