Job 40:5
Once have I spoken, but I will not speak again; Yea, twice, but I will say no more.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
In Context
4Behold, I am vile! what can I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
6Then spake Jehovah to Job out of the whirlwind, and said:
Cross References
Job 9:3If he choose to contend with him, He cannot answer him to one charge of a thousand.
Job 33:14For God speaketh once, Yea, twice, when man regardeth it not.
Psalms 62:11Once hath God promised, twice have I heard it, That power belongeth unto God.
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the Law saith, it saith to those who are under the Law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become subject to condemnation before 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 →