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Job 26:3

Job 26:3 is verse 3 of Job chapter 26, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!

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King James Version

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

World English Bible

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

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Job 26:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Then Job answered:

2 “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!

3 How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!

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

5 The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 6:13

Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?

Job 12:3

But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

Job 13:5

If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!

Job 15:8

Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

Job 15:9

What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

Job 15:10

Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.

Job 17:10

But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

Job 32:11

Indeed, I waited while you spoke; I listened to your reasoning; as you searched for words,

Job 32:12

I paid you full attention. But no one proved Job wrong; not one of you rebutted his arguments.

Job 32:13

So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’

Job 33:3

My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.

Job 33:33

But if not, then listen to me; be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom.”

Job 38:2

“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

Psalms 49:1

Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,

Psalms 49:2

both low and high, rich and poor alike.

Psalms 49:3

My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding.

Psalms 49:4

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:

Psalms 71:15

My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.

Psalms 71:16

I will enter in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will proclaim Your righteousness—Yours alone.

Psalms 71:17

O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.

Psalms 71:18

Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

Proverbs 8:6

Listen, for I speak of noble things, and the opening of my lips will reveal right.

Proverbs 8:7

For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

Proverbs 8:8

All the words of my mouth are righteous; none are crooked or perverse.

Proverbs 8:9

They are all plain to the discerning, and upright to those who find knowledge.

Acts 20:20

I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,

Acts 20:27

For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.

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