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How you[a] have advised one who has no wisdom![b]
And what sound wisdom you[c] have made known in abundance![d]
With whose help[e] have you[f] uttered words,
and whose breath has come forth from you?[g]
“The spirits of the dead tremble
below the waters and their inhabitants.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 26:3 Singular
  2. Job 26:3 Literally “for not wisdom”
  3. Job 26:3 Singular
  4. Job 26:3 Literally “as far as the multitude,” or “for multitude”
  5. Job 26:4 Literally “With whom”
  6. Job 26:4 Singular
  7. Job 26:4 Singular

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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