What counsel you have given to one without wisdom! And what abundant wisdom you have made known!, extending Job's sarcasm by suggesting that the friends' counsel has been not merely unhelpful but actually disorienting, confusing rather than illuminating. The implication of counsel to one without wisdom may suggest either that Job is without wisdom and needs such counsel, or that the counsel itself is the counsel of the non-wise, or both. The question about the abundance of wisdom known suggests that the friends have displayed their wisdom but not communicated its truth or relevance to Job's situation. Job's sarcasm reveals that intellectual knowledge and pastoral effectiveness are not synonymous.

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