The Pulpit Commentary on Job 26:3

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? What counsel or advice is there in anything that thou hast said, by following which I might be benefited? Admitting my own want of wisdom, how hast thou bettered my case?

And how hast thou plenteously declared the thing as it is? rather, How hast thou plenteously declared sound knowledge? What can there be said to have been in the way of sound knowledge, or good practical common sense ( חוּשִׁיָה), in the discourse which thou hast addressed to me?

—a discourse made up of truisms.

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