261 Then Job responded e , 2 "What a help you are to the weak ! How you have saved the arm without strength ! 3 "What counsel you have given to one without wisdom ! What helpful insight you have abundantly provided ! 4 "To whom have you uttered words ? And whose spirit was expressed through you?
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 26:1-4
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.