Job 26:3
Good News Translation
You give such good advice and share your knowledge with a fool like me!

New Revised Standard Version
How you have counseled one who has no wisdom, and given much good advice!

Contemporary English Version
You have given great advice and wonderful wisdom to someone truly in need.

New American Bible
How you give counsel to one without wisdom; how profuse is the advice you offer!

Douay-Rheims Bible
To whom hast thou given counsel? perhaps to him that hath no wisdom, and thou hast shewn thy very great prudence.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

To whom hast thou given counsel? perhaps to him that hath no wisdom, and thou hast shewn thy very great prudence.

counselled

Job 6:13 Behold there is no help for me in myself, and my familiar friends also are departed from me.

Job 12:3 I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know?

Job 13:5 And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.

Job 15:8-10 Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee? . . .

Job 17:10 Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.

Job 32:11-13 For I have waited for your words, I have given ear to your wisdom, as long as you were disputing in words. . . .

plentifully

Job 33:3,33 My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence. . . .

Job 38:2 Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskilful words?

Psalm 49:1-4 Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core. [2] Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world. . . .

Psalm 71:15-18 My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; thy salvation all the day long. Because I have not known learning, . . .

Proverbs 8:6-9 My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness. . . .

Acts 20:20,27 How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have preached it to you, and taught you publicly, and from house to house, . . .

Context
Job: Who Can Understand God's Majesty?
2Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him that has no strength? 3To whom hast thou given counsel? perhaps to him that hath no wisdom, and thou hast shewn thy very great prudence.4Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life?…
Cross References
Job 6:13
Behold there is no help for me in myself, and my familiar friends also are departed from me.

Job 26:2
Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him that has no strength?

Job 26:4
Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life?

Job 26:2
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