Job 38:2
Who is this that wraps sentences in unskilled words?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
In Context
1But the Lord, responding to Job from a whirlwind, said:
3Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.
Cross References
Job 12:3And I have a heart just as you also do, and I am not inferior to you. For who is ignorant of these things, which you know?
Job 24:25But, if this is not so, who is able to prove to me that I have lied and to place my words before God?
Job 27:11I will teach you through the hand of God, what the Almighty holds, and I will not conceal it.
Job 35:16Therefore, Job has opened his mouth in vain and has multiplied words without knowledge.
1 Timothy 1:7desiring to be teachers of the law, but understanding neither the things that they themselves are saying, nor what they are affirming about these things.
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 →