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Job’s Response to God

3 Then Job answered the Lord and said:
4 “Behold,a I am vile;
What shall I answer You?
bI lay my hand over my mouth. 
5 Once I have spoken, but I will not answer;
Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

God’s Challenge to Job

6 aThen the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: 
7 “Now1a prepare yourself like a man;
bI will question you, and you shall answer Me: 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Job 40:5

Once . . . twice—oftentimes, more than once (Job 33:14, compare with Job 33:29; Psalms 62:11):

I have spoken—namely, against God.

not answer—not plead against Thee.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 40:5:

Job 34:31
Psalms 62:11
Lamentations 3:26
Micah 7:9

 

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