Job 26:2
New Revised Standard Version
“How you have helped one who has no power! How you have assisted the arm that has no strength!

Contemporary English Version
You have really been helpful to someone weak and weary.

New American Bible
What help you give to the powerless, what strength to the feeble arm!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him that has no strength?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him that has no strength?

Job 12:2 Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?

1 Kings 18:27 And when it was now noon, Elias jested at them, saying: Cry with a louder voice: for he is a god; and perhaps he is talking, or is in an inn, or on a journey; or perhaps he is asleep, and must be awaked.

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Job 4:3,4 Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands: . . .

Job 6:25 Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?

Job 16:4,5 I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul. . . .

Isaiah 35:3,4 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees. . . .

Isaiah 40:14 With whom hath he consulted, and who hath instructed him, and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?

Isaiah 41:5-7 The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came. . . .

Context
Job: Who Can Understand God's Majesty?
1Then Job answered, and said: 2Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him that has no strength?3To whom hast thou given counsel? perhaps to him that hath no wisdom, and thou hast shewn thy very great prudence.…
Cross References
Job 6:11
For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end, that I should keep patience?

Job 6:12
My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of brass.

Job 6:13
Behold there is no help for me in myself, and my familiar friends also are departed from me.

Job 26:1
Then Job answered, and said:

Job 26:3
To whom hast thou given counsel? perhaps to him that hath no wisdom, and thou hast shewn thy very great prudence.

Psalm 71:9
Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall fail, do not thou forsake me.

Job 26:1
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