Job 40:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Job 40:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 30:32
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
Job 29:9
The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 21:5
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Job 42:6
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Atheism Attributes of God Blessing Contrition Conviction Depravity of Man Enquiring of God

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. 4)

4. I am (too) vile (to reply). It is a very different thing to vindicate ourselves before God, from what it is before men. Job could do the latter, not the former. lay ... hand ... upon ... mouth--I have no plea to offer (Job 21:5; Jud 18:19).