Job 38:3
Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 that wraps sentences in unskilled words?
4Where were you, when I set the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:46And the hand of the Lord was upon Elijah. And cinching his waist, he ran before Ahab, until he arrived at Jezreel.
Job 13:22Call me, and I will answer you, or else I will speak, and you can answer me.
Job 23:3Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and that I may approach even to his throne?
Job 40:2Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.
Job 42:4Listen, and I will speak. I will question you, and you may answer me.
1 Peter 1:13For this reason, gird the waist of your mind, be sober, and hope perfectly in the grace that is offered to you in 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 →