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1Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,

Job 40:1

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  • Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

  • Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-5)

Here is, I. A humbling challenge which God gave to Job. After he had heaped up many hard questions upon him, to show him, by his manifest ignorance in the works of nature, what an incompetent judge he was of the methods and designs of Providence, he clenches the nail with one demand more, which stands by itself here as the application of the whole. It should seem, God paused awhile, as Elihu had d…

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