“How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!” (Job 26:3 NET). 

God’s advice to those who are void of wisdom can be translated as those who lack the ability to plan ahead. Those who lack foresight to make plans for the future are advised by God in things only known to Him. Forward thinking is the key to spiritual progress. Our sights must be set on things above as we journey from here to there. Each situation and every message must be weighed on the basis of their spiritual content. Are we growing in grace and the knowledge of God, or becoming content in our current state? The Holy Spirit guides us beyond the level of wisdom known to the world to insights revealed to us from heaven. Only then will we feel the sense of estrangement in an environment that is not our home and seek those things pertaining to life in the Spirit. Sound advice is required in order to have good success. Spiritual things are compared with the spiritual once we have been made aware of God’s presence and humbly submit to His will as knowing nothing on our own. Plentifully declared sound knowledge is a literal translation of the Hebrew. Job is being doubly sarcastic in saying that Bildad’s very brief remarks in Job 25 were plentifully declared. The word translated “declared” means “show, make known, demonstrate.” Sound knowledge is a single word in Hebrew. It is used in Job 5:12 in the sense of planning ahead (success), and so “having foresight in making plans.” It is often used in the wisdom literature of the Old Testament for the wisdom possessed by both people and God. NEB translates it “sound advice.” If the translator is retaining the parallelism, this line may be translated as “and shown me great amounts of wisdom!”, “and helped me greatly to plan ahead well!”, or “and you have shown me so much clear understanding!”