Job 26:4
Good News Translation
Who do you think will hear all your words? Who inspired you to speak like this?

New Revised Standard Version
With whose help have you uttered words, and whose spirit has come forth from you?

Contemporary English Version
How can anyone possibly speak with such understanding?

New American Bible
With whose help have you uttered those words, whose breath comes forth from you?

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life?

whose spirit

Job 20:3 The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.

Job 32:18 For I am full of matter to speak of, and the spirit of my bowels straiteneth me.

1 Kings 22:23,24 Now, therefore, behold the Lord hath given a lying spirit in the mouth of all thy prophets that are here, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee. . . .

Ecclesiastes 12:7 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

1 Corinthians 12:3 Wherefore, I give you to understand that no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say The Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.

1 John 4:1-3 Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. . . .

Revelation 16:13,14 And I saw from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. . . .

Context
Job: Who Can Understand God's Majesty?
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?5Behold the giants groan under the waters, and they that dwell with them.…
Cross References
Job 26:3
To whom hast thou given counsel? perhaps to him that hath no wisdom, and thou hast shewn thy very great prudence.

Job 26:5
Behold the giants groan under the waters, and they that dwell with them.

Job 26:3
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