Job 40:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.

Job 40:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 2:16
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Isaiah 40:14
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Romans 11:34-36
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? …
Job 33:13
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
Isaiah 45:9-11
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? …

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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…

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

(vv. 2)

2. he that contendeth--as Job had so often expressed a wish to do. Or, rebuketh. Does Job now still (after seeing and hearing of God’s majesty and wisdom) wish to set God right? answer it--namely, the questions I have asked.