Job 26:2

World English Bible (2000)

"How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 18:27 : 27 It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, "Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he has gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened."
  • Job 4:3-4 : 3 Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands. 4 Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.
  • Job 6:12 : 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
  • Job 6:25 : 25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
  • Job 12:2 : 2 "No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
  • Job 16:4-5 : 4 I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you, 5 but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
  • Ps 71:9 : 9 Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.
  • Isa 35:3-4 : 3 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. 4 Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong. Don't be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution. He will come and save you.
  • Isa 40:14 : 14 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
  • Isa 41:5-7 : 5 The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come. 6 Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, "Be strong!" 7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.

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  • 1 Then Job answered,

  • Job 26:3-4
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    3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

    4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?

  • Job 6:11-13
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    11 What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

    12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

    13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

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    8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

    9 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

  • 2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

  • Job 4:3-5
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    3 Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

    4 Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

    5 But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

  • 2 "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

  • 9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • 22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

  • 5 I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me.

  • 6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

  • 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,

  • 21 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

  • 23 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'

  • 27 He said, "If Yahweh doesn't help you, from where could I help you? From of the threshing floor, or from the winepress?"

  • 4 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

  • 23 or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand?' or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?'

  • 19 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

  • 14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

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

  • 12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

  • 14 Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.

  • 2 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

  • 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • 29 He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

  • 29 When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will save the humble person.

  • 15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

  • 2 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

  • 11 Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.

  • 10 Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

  • 3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

  • 24 "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

  • 2 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

  • 42 They looked, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

  • 14 Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won't strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

  • 13 Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'

  • 10 All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"

  • 1 Then Job answered Yahweh,

  • 7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

  • 21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

  • 12 Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.

  • 2 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

  • 13 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?

  • 15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.