Job 26:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

Job 26:4 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 22:23-24
Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee. …
1 John 4:1-3
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. …
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
1 Corinthians 12:3
Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
Job 20:3
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

One would not have thought that Job, when he was in so much pain and misery, could banter his friend as he does here and make himself merry with the impertinency of his discourse. Bildad thought that he had made a fine speech, that the matter was so weighty, and the language so fine, that he had gained the reputation both of an oracle and of an orator; but Job peevishly enough shows that his perfo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. For whose instruction were thy words meant? If for me I know the subject (God’s omnipotence) better than my instructor; Job 26:5-14 is a sample of Job’s knowledge of it. whose spirit--not that of God (Job 32:8); nay, rather, the borrowed sentiment of Eliphaz (Job 4:17-19; 15:14-16).