Job 38:2
“Who [is] this—darkening counsel, || By words without knowledge?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
In Context
1And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:
3Now gird your loins as a man, || And I ask you, and you cause Me to know.
Cross References
Job 12:3I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, || And with whom is there not like these?
Job 24:25And if not now, who proves me a liar, || And makes my word of nothing?”
Job 27:11I show you by the hand of God, || That which [is] with the Mighty I do not hide.
Job 35:16And Job opens his mouth [with] vanity, || He multiplies words without knowledge.”
1 Timothy 1:7willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they confidently assert,
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 →