Job 26:2

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How have you helped the powerless and saved the arm without strength?

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  • 1 Kgs 18:27 : 27 At noon, Elijah began to mock them, saying, 'Shout louder! Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.'
  • Job 4:3-4 : 3 Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands. 4 Your words have raised up those who stagger, and you have strengthened knees that were about to give way.
  • Job 6:12 : 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh made of bronze?
  • Job 6:25 : 25 How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?
  • Job 12:2 : 2 "Truly, you are the people, and with you wisdom will die!"
  • Job 16:4-5 : 4 I could also speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you. 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips would bring you relief.
  • Ps 71:9 : 9 Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone.
  • Isa 35:3-4 : 3 Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees. 4 Say to those with fearful hearts, 'Be strong; do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with divine retribution. He will come and save you.'
  • Isa 40:14 : 14 Whom did He consult, and who gave Him understanding? Who taught Him the path of justice, or showed Him knowledge, or instructed Him in the way of understanding?
  • Isa 41:5-7 : 5 The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble. They draw near and come forward. 6 Each one helps his neighbor and says to his brother, 'Be strong!' 7 The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and the one who polishes with the hammer encourages the one striking the anvil, saying of the soldering, 'It is good.' They fasten it with nails so it will not move.

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  • 1Then Job answered and said:

  • Job 26:3-4
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    3How have you advised without wisdom and provided abundant insight?

    4To whom have you uttered words, and whose breath has come from you?

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    11What is my strength, that I should hope? What is my end, that I should prolong my life?

    12Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh made of bronze?

    13Indeed, there is no help in me, and ability has been driven from me.

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    8Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

    9Do you have an arm like God's, and can your voice thunder like His?

  • 2Even the strength of their hands is useless to me; their vigor has perished.

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    3Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands.

    4Your words have raised up those who stagger, and you have strengthened knees that were about to give way.

    5But now it has come to you, and you are weary; it touches you, and you are troubled.

  • 2Who is this that darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

  • 9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

  • 22Yet God drags away the mighty with His power; though they rise up, they do not trust in their own lives.

  • 5I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one gave support. So my own arm brought me salvation, and my wrath sustained me.

  • 6Would he contend with me in his great power? No, he would instead give me strength.

  • 12Because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no helper.

  • 21You have turned cruel to me; with Your strong hand, You oppose me.

  • 23Who has appointed His path for Him, or who can say, 'You have done wrong'?

  • 27He answered, "If the LORD does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?"

  • 4He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted Him and remained unharmed?

  • 23Or, ‘Deliver me from the hand of the adversary,’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless’?

  • 19Will your cry for help set things in order in distress, or will your exertions of strength suffice?

  • 14But You have seen; for You observe trouble and grief, to repay it by Your hand. The helpless entrusts themselves to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

  • 7You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • 12For he will deliver the needy who cry for help, the poor who have no helper.

  • 14Then I will also praise you, that your own right hand can save you.

  • 2Why, when I came, was there no one? Why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand too short to redeem? Do I have no power to save? Look, at my rebuke I dry up the sea; I turn rivers into a desert, so their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

  • 3Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

  • 29He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

  • 29When people are humbled and you say, 'Lift them up,' God will save the downcast.

  • 15He saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the strong.

  • 2As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

  • 11Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

  • 10'Haven't you placed a hedge around him and his household and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands so that his possessions have increased in the land.'

  • 3Will your words of wind never end? Or what provokes you to answer?

  • 24Surely one does not stretch out a hand in ruin or cry for help in disaster.

  • 2Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? Let the one who argues with God answer.

  • 42They looked, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

  • 14Flight will perish from the swift, the strong will not retain their strength, and the warrior will not save his life.

  • 13Do not say, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not a man, refute him.’

  • 10All my bones will say, 'Lord, who is like You? You rescue the afflicted from those too strong for them, the poor and needy from their oppressors.'

  • 1Then Job answered the LORD and said:

  • 7You know that I am not wicked, and that no one can deliver me from Your hand.

  • 21If I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my support in the gate,

  • 12Have you not rejected us, O God? Do you not march out with our armies, O God?

  • 2Truly, I know this is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

  • 13Why do you contend with Him? For He does not answer all of man's words.

  • 15He delivers the afflicted through their suffering and opens their ears in oppression.