Job 38:3
Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
In Context
2Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?
4Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:46And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he made himself strong, and went running before Ahab till they came to Jezreel.
Job 13:22Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.
Job 23:3If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!
Job 40:2\40:7\Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
Job 42:4Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
1 Peter 1:13So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Matthew Henry on Job 38:2-4
God Answers Out of the Whirlwind. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, 2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? 3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Let us observe here, 1. Who speaks— The Lord, Jehovah, not a created angel, but the eternal Word himself, the second person in the blessed Trinity, for it is he by whom the worlds were made, and that was no other than the Son of God. The same speaks here that… Read the whole commentary →