Job 26:3

American Standard Version (1901)

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:13 : 13 Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
  • Job 12:3 : 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
  • Job 13:5 : 5 Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.
  • Job 15:8-9 : 8 Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself? 9 What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us? 10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.
  • Job 17:10 : 10 But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.
  • Job 32:11-13 : 11 Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your reasonings, Whilst ye searched out what to say. 12 Yea, I attended unto you, And, behold, there was none that convinced Job, Or that answered his words, among you. 13 Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man:
  • Job 33:3 : 3 My words [shall utter] the uprightness of my heart; And that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
  • Job 33:33 : 33 If not, hearken thou unto me: Hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.
  • Job 38:2 : 2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?
  • Ps 49:1-4 : 1 [For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah]. Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world, 2 Both low and high, Rich and poor together. 3 My mouth shall speak wisdom; And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. 4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
  • Ps 71:15-18 : 15 My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, [And] of thy salvation all the day; For I know not the numbers [thereof] . 16 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. 17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. 18 Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto [the next] generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.
  • Prov 8:6-9 : 6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things. 7 For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips. 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse in them. 9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.
  • Acts 20:20 : 20 how I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house,
  • Acts 20:27 : 27 For I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 4To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?

  • Job 26:1-2
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    1Then Job answered and said,

    2How hast thou helped him that is without power! How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength!

  • 2Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?

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    3Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

    4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

  • Isa 40:13-14
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    13Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, or being his counsellor hath taught him?

    14With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?

  • 3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

  • Job 15:8-9
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    8Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?

    9What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

  • Job 34:34-35
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    34Men of understanding will say unto me, Yea, every wise man that heareth me:

    35Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.

  • 3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

  • 12But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

  • 20Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,

  • 36Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who hath given understanding to the mind?

  • 34For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

  • 23Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

  • 20Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?

  • Job 6:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?

    26Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

  • 3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

  • 17He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.

  • 13With [God] is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.

  • 16Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he hath no understanding?

  • 18Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.

  • 13That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?

  • 3behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from thee;

  • 13Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man:

  • 22Where there is no counsel, purposes are disappointed; But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

  • 13Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • 3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

  • 20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

  • 4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.

  • 33If not, hearken thou unto me: Hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.

  • 16If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words.

  • 26Who hath declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, [He is] right? yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that showeth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.

  • 8For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? [or] what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

  • 9Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

  • 22Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high?

  • 3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

  • 16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

  • 12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?

  • 28For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.

  • 3And I have not learned wisdom, Neither have I the knowledge of the Holy One.

  • 4Knowest thou [not] this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,

  • 13Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not account of any of his matters?

  • 6For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding:

  • 3Behold, thou hast instructed many, And thou hast strengthened the weak hands.