Job 38:3
Girde vp nowe thy loynes like a man: I will demande of thee and declare thou vnto me.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?
4Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding,
Cross References
1 Kings 18:46And the hand of the Lord was on Eliiah, and he girded vp his Ioynes, and ran before Ahab till he came to Izreel.
Job 13:22Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.
Job 23:3Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.
Job 40:2Girde vp now thy loynes like a man: I will demaunde of thee, and declare thou vnto me.
Job 42:4Heare, I beseech thee, and I will speake: I will demaunde of thee, and declare thou vnto me.
1 Peter 1:13Wherefore, girde vp the Ioynes of your minde: bee sober, and trust perfectly on that grace that is brought vnto you, in the reuelation of Iesus Christ,
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 →