Job 40:2
Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
In Context
1But the Lord, answering Job out of the whirlwind, said:
3Will you make my judgment null and void; and will you condemn me so that you may be justified?
Cross References
Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to those who are in bitterness of soul,
Job 7:12Am I an ocean or a whale, that you have encircled me in a prison?
Job 9:3If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times.
Job 9:32For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment.
Job 10:14If I have sinned, and you have spared me for an hour, why do you not endure me to be clean from my iniquity?
Job 14:16Indeed, you have numbered my steps, but you have been lenient with my sins.
Matthew Henry on Job 40:2-6
Job's Humble Submission. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said, 2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it. 3 Then Job answered the Lord , and said, 4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. 5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further. Here is, I. A humbling challenge which God gave to Job. After he had heaped up many hard questions upon him, to show him,… Read the whole commentary →