Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I am (too) vile (to reply). It is a very different thing to vindicate ourselves before God, from what it is before men. Job could do the latter, not the former.
lay . . . hand . . . upon . . . mouth—I have no plea to offer (Job 21:5; Judges 18:19).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 40:4:
Job 34:31
Proverbs 30:32
Lamentations 3:26
Micah 7:9
Micah 7:16
Habakkuk 2:20
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