Job 26:4

To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?

World English Bible

Learn

Your notes

Private to you. Anything you write on this verse, here or while reading, shows up here and in My study.

Other translations

WEBBE

To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?

BSB

To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?

KJV

To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

ASV

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

BBE

To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

Original Hebrew

Look up a word

Tap a word to see what it means and everywhere else it's used.

אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 מִי mi whom H4310 הִגַּדְתָּ hi·gad·ta have you told H5046 מִלִּין mi·lin words H4405 וְנִשְׁמַת־ ve·nish·mat- and [the] breath of H5397 מִי mi whom H4310 יָצְאָה ya·tze·'ah has it gone out H3318 מִמֶּךָּ mi·me·ka from you H4480

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–4

Job derided Bildad's answer; his words were a mixture of peevishness and self-preference. Bildad ought to have laid before Job the consolations, rather than the terrors of the Almighty. Christ knows how to speak what is proper for the weary, Is 50:4; and his ministers should not grieve those whom God would not have made sad. We are often disappointed in our expectations from our friends who should comfort us; but the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, never mistakes, nor fails of his end.

Read Matthew Henry on Job 26 →

Cross-references

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.