Job 38:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Job 38:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 42:3
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.
1 Timothy 1:7
Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
Job 35:16
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Job 34:35
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
Job 24:25
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Blessing God Guidance Lord Majesty Speaking

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 from…

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

(vv. 2)

2. this--Job. counsel--impugning My divine wisdom in the providential arrangements of the universe. Such “words” (including those of the friends) rather obscure, than throw light on My ways. God is about to be Job’s Vindicator, but must first bring him to a right state of mind for receiving relief.