Job 40:5
I have spoken once, and I do not answer, || And twice, and I do not add.”
Literal Standard 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
4“Behold, I have been vile, || What do I return to You? I have placed my hand on my mouth.
6And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:
Cross References
Job 9:3If he delights to strive with Him—He does not answer him one of a thousand.
Job 33:14For once God speaks, and twice (he does not behold it),
Psalms 62:11Once has God spoken, twice I heard this, || That “strength [is] with God.”
Romans 3:19And we have known that as many things as the Law says, to those in the Law it speaks, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment 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 →