261 Then Job answered, 2 “How have you helped him who is without power!
How have you saved the arm that has no strength! 3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom,
and plentifully declared sound knowledge! 4 To whom have you uttered words?
Whose spirit came forth from 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.