Job 40:4
“See, I am insignificant; how can I answer you? 1 I put my hand over my mouth. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
In Context
3Then Job answered Yahweh and said, 1
5I spoke once, and I will not answer; 1 indeed, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
Cross References
Genesis 18:27Abraham answered and said, “Look, I have undertaken to speak to my Lord, even though I am only dust and ashes!
Leviticus 13:12If the disease breaks out widely in the skin and covers all the skin of the person with the disease from his head to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,
2 Samuel 24:10Then David's heart afflicted him after he had counted the men. So he said to Yahweh, “I have greatly sinned by doing this. Now, Yahweh, take away your servant's guilt, for I have acted very foolishly.”
Ezra 9:6I said, “My God, I am ashamed and disgraced to raise my face to you, for our iniquities increase over our head, and our guilt grows to the heavens.
Nehemiah 9:33You are just in everything that has come on us, for you have dealt faithfully, but we have acted wickedly.
Job 16:21I ask for that witness in heaven to argue for this man with God 1 as a man does 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 →