Job 26:4
To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
BSB
ASV
To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?
KJV
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
Whom wouldest thou have taught? Was it not Him Who made the breathway? By the 'breathway' we live, by prudence we are wise. But it is ours first to live, and afterwards to be imbued with wisdom; because in order that we have the power to be wise, it is first brought to pass that we should have being. He, then, Who bestowed life, the same doubtless gave prudence as well.
Whose spirit came from thee? - Mr. Good renders the verse thus: From whom hast thou pillaged speeches? And whose spirit hath issued forth from thee? The retort is peculiarly severe; and refers immediately to the proverbial sayings which in several of the preceding answers have been adduced against the irritated sufferer; for which see Job 8:11-19; 15:20-35, some of which he has already complained of, as in Job 12:3, and following.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 Corinthians 12:3Therefore I inform you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
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By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
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Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,