Job 38:2
“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
In Context
1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind,
3Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
Cross References
Job 12:3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
Job 24:25If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”
Job 27:11I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.
Job 35:16therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
1 Timothy 1:7desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say nor about what they strongly affirm.
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 →