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You give such good advice
    and share your knowledge with a fool like me!
Who do you think will hear all your words?
    Who inspired you to speak like this?

[Bildad][a]

The spirits of the dead tremble
    in the waters under the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 26:5 Bildad is not named in the text, but this speech is usually assigned to him.

What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
    And what great insight(A) you have displayed!
Who has helped you utter these words?
    And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?(B)

“The dead are in deep anguish,(C)
    those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

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