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Job 26:4
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With whom did you speak these words?Whose breath came out of your mouth?
To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you?
Who has helped you say these words? And where did you get these ideas?
To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?
"To whom have you uttered [these] words? And whose spirit [inspired what] came forth from you?
"To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit was expressed through you?
To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?
To whom doest thou declare these words? or whose spirit commeth out of thee?
To whom have you declared words?And whose breath comes out from you?
To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
How can anyone possibly speak with such understanding?
Who helped you to say these words? Whose spirit is it, coming forth from you?
For whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
Who helped you say these things? Whose spirit inspired you to speak?
To whom have you uttered words? And whose soul has come forth from you?
Who do you think will hear all your words? Who inspired you to speak like this?
With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come forth from you?
With whom have you spoken words? And whose breath came forth from you?
Before whom hast thou spoken those wordes? Who made the breth to come out of ye mouth?
To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?
To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
With whose help hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?
To whom hast thou vttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
To whom hast thou spoken these wordes? who made the breath to come out of thy mouth?
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose breath is it that has come forth from thee?
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came forth from thee?
Ether whom woldist thou teche? whether not hym, that made brething?
To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from you?
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came from you?
Where have you gotten all these wise sayings? Whose spirit speaks through you?
To whom have your words been said? And from whose spirit have you spoken?
With whose help have you uttered words, and whose spirit has come forth from you?
Whom hast thou taught speech? Whose inspiration hath come from thee?
Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life?
With whom hast thou declared words? And whose breath came forth from thee?
"To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit was expressed through you?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
whose spirit: Job 20:3, Job 32:18, 1 Kings 22:23, 1 Kings 22:24, Ecclesiastes 12:7, 1 Corinthians 12:3, 1 John 4:1-3, Revelation 16:13, Revelation 16:14
Reciprocal: Job 15:9 - knowest Luke 9:55 - Ye know
Cross-References
I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted.
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your descendants be."
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphra'tes,
seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by him?
And the LORD appeared to him, and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves:
When he had been there a long time, Abim'elech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac fondling Rebekah his wife.
So Isaac departed from there, and encamped in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there.
And Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
To whom hast thou uttered words?.... That others know not; dost thou think thou art talking to an ignorant man? be it known to thee, that he knows as much, and can say as much of the Divine Being, of his glories, and of his wondrous ways and works, as thyself, or more: or dost thou consider the circumstances he is in thou art speaking to? one under great affliction and distress, to whom it must be unsuitable to talk of the greatness and majesty of God, of his power and strength, of his purity, holiness, and strict justice; it would have been more proper and pertinent to have discoursed concerning his loving kindness, grace, and mercy, his pity and compassion towards his afflicted people, his readiness to forgive their sins, and overlook their failings; and concerning the promised Redeemer, his righteousness and sacrifice, and of the many instances of divine goodness to the sons of men, and in such like circumstances, by raising them up again, and restoring them to their former happiness. Some things of this nature would have been more pertinent and suitable, and would have been doing both a wise and friendly part:
and whose spirit came from thee? Not the spirit of God; dost thou think thyself inspired by God? or that what thou hast said is by the inspiration of his Spirit? or that thou speakest like such who are moved by the Holy Ghost? nor indeed was it his own spirit, or the words and things uttered were not of himself, or flowed not from his own knowledge and understanding: of things, but what he had borrowed from Eliphaz; for he had delivered very little more than what Eliphaz had said, Job 4:17; or else the sense is, whose spirit has been restored, revived, refreshed, and comforted by what thou hast said? The word of God has such efficacy as to restore the soul, to revive it when drooping, and as it were swooning away and dying, see
Psalms 19:7; and the words of some good men are spirit and life, the savour of life unto life, and are as life from the dead, very refreshing and comforting; but no such effect followed on what Bildad had said. Mr. Broughton renders the words, "whose soul admired thee?" thou mayest admire thyself, and thy friends may admire thee, at least thou mayest think they do, having said in thine own opinion admirable things; but who else does? for my own part I do not; and, if saying great and glorious things of God are to any purpose in the controversy between us, I am capable of speaking greater and better things than what have been delivered; and, for instance, let the following be attended to.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
To whom hast thou uttered words? - Jerome renders this, Quem docere voluisti? “Whom do you wish to teach?” The sense is, “Do you attempt to teach me in such a manner, on such a subject? Do you take it that I am so ignorant of the perfections of God, that such remarks about him would convey any real instruction?”
And whose spirit came from thee? - That is, by whose spirit didst thou speak? What claims hast thou to inspiration, or to the uttering of sentiments beyond what man himself could originate? The meaning is, that there was nothing remarkable in what he had said that would show that he had been indebted for it either to God or to the wise and good on earth.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 26:4. Whose spirit came from thee? — Mr. Good renders the verse thus: From whom hast thou pillaged speeches? And whose spirit hath issued forth from thee? The retort is peculiarly severe; and refers immediately to the proverbial sayings which in several of the preceding answers have been adduced against the irritated sufferer; for which see Job 8:11-19; Job 15:20-35, some of which he has already complained of, as in Job 12:3, and following. I concur most fully therefore with Dr. Stock in regarding the remainder of this chapter as a sample, ironically exhibited by Job, of the harangues on the power and greatness of God which he supposes his friends to have taken out of the mouths of other men, to deck their speeches with borrowed lustre. Only, in descanting on the same subject, he shows how much he himself can go beyond them in eloquence and sublimity.
Job intimates that, whatever spirit they had, it was not the Spirit of God, because in their answers falsehood was found.
