Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 26:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
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Role in This Section
Job 26:2 advances the thought unit with the words “How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?.” Job presses the unit's question through “How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?”, a line that belongs to Job Mocks Advice That Helped No One.
Read It With
- Job 26:1–26:4
Read Job 26:2 with 26:1–26:4. Read alone, “How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job asks how Bildad has helped the powerless, saved the weak, counseled the unwise, or disclosed wisdom, then questions whose breath spoke.
Why It Needs Context
Job 26:2 depends on 26:1–26:4; isolating “How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Mocks Advice That Helped No One.”
Read Job 26:1–4 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 26:1–26:4 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Mocks Advice That Helped No One.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 But Job answered and said,
Verse 2. 2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
Verse 3. 3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
Verse 4. 4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 26:1–26:4 — Job Mocks Advice That Helped No OneSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 26:1–26:4, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 26:1–26:4
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