Job 38:3
Now gird your loins as a man, || And I ask you, and you cause Me to know.
Literal Standard 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
2“Who [is] this—darkening counsel, || By words without knowledge?
4Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare, if you have known understanding.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:46and the hand of YHWH has been on Elijah, and he girds up his loins, and runs before Ahab, until your entering Jezreel.
Job 13:22And You call, and I answer, || Or—I speak, and You answer me.
Job 23:3O that I had known—and I find Him, || I come to His seat,
Job 40:2“Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.”
Job 42:4Please hear, and I speak; [You said], I ask you, and you cause Me to know.
1 Peter 1:13For this reason, having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly on the grace that is being brought 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 →