How
x4100 (4100) Complementמָּהmah{maw}
A primitive particle; properly interrogitive what? (including how?, why? and when?); but also exclamations like what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational senses.
hast thou helped
5826 {5826} Primeעָזַר`azar{aw-zar'}
A primitive root; to surround, that is, protect or aid.
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
[ him that is] without
x3808 (3808) Complementלֹאlo'{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
power?
3581 {3581} Primeכֹּחַkoach{ko'-akh}
From an unused root meaning to be firm; vigor, literally ( force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively ( capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard.
[ how] savest
3467 {3467} Primeיָשַׁעyasha`{yaw-shah'}
A primitive root; properly to be open, wide or free, that is, (by implication) to be safe; causatively to free or succor.
z8689 <8689> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 2675
thou the arm
2220 {2220} Primeזְרוֹעַz@rowa`{zer-o'-ah}
From H2232; the arm (as stretched out), or (of animals) the foreleg; figuratively force.
[ that hath] no
3808 {3808} Primeלֹאlo'{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
strength?
5797 {5797} Primeעֹז`oz{oze}
From H5810; strength in various applications ( force, security, majesty, praise). |
Job 26:2-3
_ _ without power ... no strength ... no wisdom — The negatives are used instead of the positives, powerlessness, etc., designedly (so Isaiah 31:8; Deuteronomy 32:21). Granting I am, as you say (Job 18:17; Job 15:2), powerlessness itself, etc. “How hast thou helped such a one?”
_ _ savest — supportest. |
Job 26:2
(a) How hast thou helped [him that is] without power? [how] (b) savest thou the arm [that hath] no strength?
(a) You concluded nothing, for neither did you help me while destitute of all help, nor yet speak sufficiently on God's behalf, who has no need for your defence.
(b) But you do not apply it to the purpose. |
- How hast thou:
- Bildad had produced no argument to refute Job's doctrine; and therefore Job ironically admires the assistance which Bildad had given to his friends in their extremity, and the instruction he had afforded him in his perplexity.
Job 12:2 No doubt but ye [are] the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
1 Kings 18:27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he [is] a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, [or] peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
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Job 4:3-4 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. ... Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Job 6:25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Job 16:4-5 I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. ... [But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage [your grief].
Isaiah 35:3-4 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. ... Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [even] God [with] a recompence; he will come and save you.
Isaiah 40:14 With whom took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Isaiah 41:5-7 The isles saw [it], and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. ... So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, [and] he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It [is] ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, [that] it should not be moved.
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