Job 40:4
Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: 1 Hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: 1 And what shall I answer to these arguments? 1 I will lay my hand upon my mouth. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
In Context
3And Job answered and said to the Lord, 1
5I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time. 1
Cross References
Genesis 18:27And Abraham 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, wheresoever the priest shall look;
2 Samuel 24:10And the heart of David smote 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 thee, the iniquity of thy 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 thee: for our transgressions have abounded over our head, and our trespasses have increased even to heaven.
Job 16:21Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, 1 Even as the son of man with his neighbor! 1
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 →