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Job 42:3

'Who is this who without knowledge conceals plans?' 1 Indeed, I have spoken things that I did not understand, 1 things too difficult for me to understand, which I did not know about. 1

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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 all things, 1 that no purpose of yours can be stopped. 1

4You said to me, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; 1 I will ask you things, and you will tell me.' 1

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Cross References

Job 11:9Its measure is longer than the earth, 1 and wider than the sea. 1

Job 38:2“Who is this who brings darkness to plans 1 by means of words without knowledge? 1

Psalms 131:1Yahweh, my heart is not proud or my eyes haughty. 1 I do not have great hopes for myself 1 or concern myself with things that are beyond me. 1

Proverbs 30:2Surely I am more like an animal than any human 1 and I do not have the understanding of a human being. 1

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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