Job 37:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 37

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²⁰Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

Job 37:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 139:4
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Job 11:7-8
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? …
Job 6:3
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
Matthew 12:36-37
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. …

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Blasphemy Cursing Devotion God Guidance Lord

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. 20)

20. What I a mortal say against God’s dealings is not worthy of being told Him. In opposition to Job’s wish to “speak” before God (Job 13:3, 18-22). if ... surely he shall be swallowed up--The parallelism more favors Umbreit, “Durst a man speak (before Him, complaining) that he is (without cause) being destroyed?”