2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
2 "How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
2 "How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
2 "Well, you've certainly been a great help to a helpless man! You came to the rescue just in the nick of time!
2 "How have you helped him who is without power? How have you saved the arm that has no strength?
2 "How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the weak!
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 26:2
Commentary on Job 26:1-4
(Read Job 26:1-4)
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, Isaiah 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.