Job 38:3

Gird your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

In Context

2Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in his heart, and thinks to conceal them from me?

4Where were you when I founded the earth? tell me now, if you have knowledge,

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Cross References

1 Kings 18:46And the hand of the Lord was upon Eliu, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Achaab to Jezrael.

Job 13:22Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: or you shall speak, and I will give you an answer.

Job 23:3Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end of the matter?

Job 40:2Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.

Job 42:4But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and do you teach me.

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 →

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