Job 40:5
Envelop yourself with splendor, and raise yourself up on high, and be glorious, and put on splendid garments.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
In Context
4And do you have an arm like God, or a voice like thunder?
6Scatter the arrogant with your wrath, and, when you see all the arrogant, humble them.
Cross References
Job 9:3If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times.
Job 33:14God speaks once, and he does not repeat the same thing a second time.
Psalms 62:11They will be delivered into the hand of the sword. They will be the portions of foxes.
Romans 3:19But we know that whatever the law speaks, it speaks to those who are in the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the entire world may be subject to God.
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 →