Job 26:2 Meaning and Explanation
“How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →With biting irony Job asks Bildad what aid his lofty words have actually given to a man stripped of all strength.
What Does Job 26:2 Mean?
Job answers Bildad's grand speech about God's greatness by exposing how useless it has been to him as a hurting man. The questions are sarcastic: Bildad has had a chance to help one who is powerless, and has done nothing.
Beneath the irony is a real longing. Job knows he is weak and needs to be saved, and he is showing his friends that true comfort strengthens the weak rather than scolding them. It is a quiet pointer to the One who does not break the bruised reed nor quench the smoking flax (Isaiah 42:3), the Saviour whose strength is made perfect in weakness.
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What does Job 26:2 mean?
With biting irony Job asks Bildad what aid his lofty words have actually given to a man stripped of all strength.