2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
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Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)Let us observe here, 1. Who speaks— The Lord , Jehovah, not a created angel, but the eternal Word himself, the second person in the blessed Trinity, for it is he by whom the worlds were made, and that was no other than the Son of God. The same speaks here that afterwards spoke from Mount Sinai. Here he begins with the creation of the world, there with the redemption of Israel out of Egypt, and fro…
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