Job 42:3

You asked me, ‘◄Who are you, who by speaking ignorantly, question what I plan to do?/You have no right to question what I plan to do by speaking ignorantly.►’ [RHQ] It is true that I spoke about things that I did not understand, things that are very wonderful/marvelous, and therefore I am not able to know them.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2“I know that you can do everything and that no one can stop you from doing what you want to do.

4You said to me, ‘Listen while I talk to you. I want to ask you some questions, so prepare yourself to answer them.’

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Cross References

Job 11:9What there is to know about God is wider than the earth and wider than the ocean.

Job 38:2“◄Who are you to question what I plan to do?/You have no right/authority to question what I plan to do.► [RHQ] You are speaking ignorantly!

Psalms 131:1Yahweh, I am not proud and I have not thought highly about ◄myself/the things that I have done►. And I do not concern myself about things that you have done that are very big or very wonderful.

Proverbs 30:2It seems that I am very stupid; I do not deserve to be considered to be a human; I do not have the good sense that humans should have.

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 →

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