Logos Bible Study

Job 26:3

The NET BibleOther versions

English

Arabic

Czech

French

German

Hebrew

Hungarian

Italian

Korean

Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Simplified Chinese

Spanish

Traditional Chinese

26:3How you have advised the one without wisdom,

and abundantly4 revealed your insight!

Read in Logos

Footnotes

  1. 4 The phrase לָרֹב (larov) means “to abundance” or “in a large quantity.” It is also used ironically like all these expressions. This makes very good sense, but some wish to see a closer parallel and so offer emendations. Reiske and Kissane thought “to the tender” for the word. But the timid are not the same as the ignorant and unwise. So Graetz supplied “to the boorish” by reading לְבָעַר (léba’ar). G. R. Driver did the same with less of a change: לַבּוֹר (labbor; 29 [1936]: 172).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

How you have counseled him who has no wisdom,

and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

NIVNew International Version (2011)

What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!

And what great insight you have displayed!

CSBChristian Standard Bible

How you have counseled the unwise

and abundantly provided insight!

NLTNew Living Translation

How you have enlightened my stupidity!

What wise advice you have offered!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

How you have advised one who has no wisdom!

And what sound wisdom you have made known in abundance!

KJV 1900King James Version

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom?

And how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?