How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
The book falls into five parts, and the second part runs from chapter 3 through chapter 31 and records the reasonings between Job and his three friends on the cause and object of human suffering, a question debated ever since. That treatment of Job's afflictions spans chapters 4 through 31 and proceeds through three rounds of speeches. Within that order the saying belongs to Job's answer to Bildad's third speech about divine majesty and perfection, where the reply becomes an exaltation of divine power and wisdom.
There Job bitterly rebukes his friends for failing to help one who is without power and to save an arm that has no strength, since their arguments have neither eased him in his suffering nor convinced him that he is guilty. The saying stands within a passage of marvelous beauty that exalts God as Creator of the heavens, who stretches out the starry firmament that is garnished and beautified by His Holy Spirit.
The book falls into five parts, and the second part runs from chapter 3 through chapter 31 and records the reasonings between Job and his three friends on the cause and object of human suffering, a question debated ever since. That treatment of Job's afflictions spans chapters 4 through 31 and proceeds through three rounds of speeches. Within that order the saying belongs to Job's answer to Bildad's third speech about divine majesty and perfection, where the reply becomes an exaltation of divine power and wisdom.
There Job bitterly rebukes his friends for failing to help one who is without power and to save an arm that has no strength, since their arguments have neither eased him in his suffering nor convinced him that he is guilty. The saying stands within a passage of marvelous beauty that exalts God as Creator of the heavens, who stretches out the starry firmament that is garnished and beautified by His Holy Spirit.