Job 42:3
[You said], Who [is] this hiding counsel without knowledge? Therefore, I have declared, and do not understand, || Too wonderful for me, and I do not know.
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2“You have known that [for] all things You are able, || And no purpose is withheld from You.
4Please hear, and I speak; [You said], I ask you, and you cause Me to know.
Cross References
Job 11:9Its measure [is] longer than earth, and broader than the sea.
Job 38:2“Who [is] this—darkening counsel, || By words without knowledge?
Psalms 131:1A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. BY DAVID. YHWH, my heart has not been haughty, || Nor have my eyes been high, || Nor have I walked in great things, || And in things too wonderful for me.
Proverbs 30:2For I am more brutish than anyone, || And do not have the understanding of a man.
Matthew Henry on Job 42:2-7
Job's Humble Confession. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered the Lord , and said, 2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. 3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. 6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and… Read the whole commentary →