Job 38:2
Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Updated King James Version
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, and said,
3Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer you me.
Cross References
Job 12:3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knows not such things as these?
Job 24:25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Job 27:11I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
Job 35:16Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
1 Timothy 1:7Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they 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 →