Job 37:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

Job 37:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 30:2-4
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. …
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Job 13:3
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Job 26:14
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Psalms 73:16-17
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; …

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Devotion God Guidance Ignorance Lord Majesty

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-20)

Elihu here addresses himself closely to Job, desiring him to apply what he had hitherto said to himself. He begs that he would hearken to this discourse (Job 37:14), that he would pause awhile: Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. What we hear is not likely to profit us unless we consider it, and we are not likely to consider things fully unless we stand still and compose ourselves…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. Men cannot explain God’s wonders; we ought, therefore, to be dumb and not contend with God. If Job thinks we ought, “let him teach us, what we shall say.” order--frame. darkness--of mind; ignorance. “The eyes are bewilderingly blinded, when turned in bold controversy with God towards the sunny heavens” (Job 37:18) [Umbreit].