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Job 6:13
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

Job 12:3
But I have understanding as well as you; Iam not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

Job 13:5
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

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Job 33:3,33
My wordsshall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly…

Job 38:2
Whois this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Psalm 49:1-4
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear this, allye people; give ear, allye inhabitants of the world: …

and provided fully sound insight!
The phrase "fully sound insight" is again used ironically by Job. He is questioning the depth and accuracy of the insights offered by his friends. In the historical context, the friends' advice is based on retributive justice, a common belief in ancient Near Eastern cultures that suffering is a direct result of personal sin. Job's experience and his challenge to this belief system foreshadow the New Testament revelation of grace and the suffering of the righteous, as seen in the life of Jesus Christ. Theologically, this phrase underscores the theme of human limitation in understanding divine purposes, a theme that is echoed inIsaiah 55:8-9, where God's thoughts and ways are described as higher than human thoughts and ways.

Job’s exclamation is edged with irony—he looks at Bildad’s pompous speech (Job 25) and says in effect, “So this is your great counseling!”

• Scripture treats true counsel as life-giving (Proverbs 11:14;Proverbs 15:22), yet Bildad’s words left Job no nearer to comfort or clarity.

•Isaiah 40:13 andRomans 11:34 ask, “Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or instructed Him as counselor?” reminding us that only counsel rooted in God’s own wisdom carries weight.

• The verse exposes the emptiness of mere rhetoric; flashy theology without love is “a noisy gong” (1 Corinthians 13:1).

Job pictures himself as one who desperately needs wisdom, while his friends have tagged him as foolish because of his suffering.

•Psalm 14:1 calls the one who dismisses God’s way a “fool,” yet Job has not turned his back on the Lord; the friends have misdiagnosed him.

•James 1:5 promises that God “gives generously to all without finding fault” when we lack wisdom—something Job’s friends never urged him to seek.

•1 Corinthians 1:27 shows God often works through those the world brands “foolish,” underscoring that Job’s circumstances do not define his spiritual standing.

Bildad claimed to supply answers; Job points out the deficit.

• True provision comes from the “Wonderful Counselor” (Isaiah 9:6); any human advice must echo His heart or it falls flat.

•Luke 21:15 records Jesus’ pledge: “I will give you speech and wisdom,” highlighting that genuine insight is a gift, not a display of human cleverness.

• All-sufficient provision for guidance is already packed into Scripture (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

Job’s sarcasm crests here: their insight is anything but sound.

•Psalm 119:130 declares, “The unfolding of Your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.” The friends quoted truth yet misapplied it, so light never reached Job’s darkness.

•Colossians 2:3 says of Christ, “in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Job longs for that treasure; his friends delivered trinkets.

•Proverbs 2:6 insists, “For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.” The “sound insight” Bildad needed was God-breathed, not self-generated.

Job 26:3 is a gentle but piercing rebuke. He thanks Bildad with heavy irony, spotlighting the gap between true, God-given counsel and empty, human presumption. Real wisdom uplifts the struggling, points to the Lord, and rests on Scripture’s sure foundation—everything Job’s friends failed to supply.