Job 38:2
“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
In Context
1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
3Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
Cross References
Job 12:3But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
Job 24:25If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
Job 27:11I will instruct you in the power of God. I will not conceal the ways of the Almighty.
Job 35:16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
1 Timothy 1:7They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.
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 →