Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 26:4

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 26:4 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 26:4. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Job, this verse is asking who Job is speaking to and whose thoughts or feelings he is sharing. It makes people think about where their ideas come from and who they are trying to help or teach.

Job 26:4: To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

Contradiction with Proverbs 3:5

This verse emphasizes trusting in the Lord with all your heart and not leaning on your understanding, contrasting with Job questioning the source of his wisdom.

Proverbs 3:5: Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 33:3

This verse invites calling upon God for answers, contrasting with the rhetorical questioning of the source of counsel presented in Job 26:4.

Jeremiah 33:3: Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. [mighty: or, hidden]

Contradiction with James 1:5

This verse encourages asking God for wisdom, contrasting with Job 26:4's implication of skeptical self-reliance.

James 1:5: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Contradiction with Isaiah 55:8-9

These verses highlight that God's thoughts and ways are higher than human thoughts, contrasting with the human-centered questioning in Job 26:4.

Isaiah 55:8-9: For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

Contradiction with 1 Corinthians 2:12

This verse underscores receiving the Spirit from God for understanding, in contrast to the human inquiry into the source of wisdom implied in Job 26:4.

1 Corinthians 2:12: Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
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