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Job 40:5 KJV
Job · chapter 40 · verse 5
Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.Job 40:5 · King James Version
Job 40:5 in context
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,
7Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- spokendâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- answerʻânâhproperly, to eye or to heedH6030 →
- twiceshᵉnayimtwoH8147 →
- Onceʼechâdproperly, unitedH259 →
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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