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Job 40:4 KJV
Job · chapter 40 · verse 4
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.Job 40:4 · King James Version
Job 40:4 in context
2Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
3Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
4Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
5Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
6Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
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Key words (Strong's)
- answershûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- vileqâlalto be light, literally or figurativelyH7043 →
- handyâda handH3027 →
- laysûwmto putH7760 →
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Here is, I. A humbling challenge which God gave to Job. After he had heaped up many hard questions upon him, to show him, by his manifest ignorance in the works of nature, what an incompetent judge he was of the methods and designs of Providence, he clenches the nail with one demand more, which stands by itself here…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5