Job 40:4
Have you an arm like the Lord's? or do you thunder with a voice like his?
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
In Context
5Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe yourself with glory and honor.
Cross References
Genesis 18:27And Abraam answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am earth and ashes.
Leviticus 13:12And if the leprosy should have come out very evidently in the skin, and the leprosy should cover all the skin of the patient from the head to the feet, wherever the priest shall look;
2 Samuel 24:10And the heart of David struck him after he had numbered the people; and David said to the Lord, I have sinned grievously, O Lord, in what I have now done: remove, I pray you, the iniquity of your servant, for I have been exceedingly foolish.
Ezra 9:6and I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded, O my God, to lift up my face to you: for our transgressions have abounded over our head, and our trespasses have increased even to heaven.
Nehemiah 9:33But you are righteous in all the things that come upon us; for you have wrought faithfully, but we have greatly sinned.
Job 16:21Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let my eye weep before him.
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 →