Job 40:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

Job 40:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 62:11
God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.
Job 33:14
For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
Job 9:15
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
Job 9:3
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

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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. 5)

5. Once ... twice--oftentimes, more than once (Job 33:14, compare with Job 33:29; Psa 62:11): I have spoken--namely, against God. not answer--not plead against Thee.