Job 40:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Job 40:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 38:3
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Job 42:4
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job 23:3-4
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! …
Job 13:22
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 6-14)

Job was greatly humbled for what God had already said, but not sufficiently; he was brought low, but not low enough; and therefore God here proceeds to reason with him in the same manner and to the same purport as before, Job 40:6. Observe, 1. Those who duly receive what they have heard from God, and profit by it, shall hear more from him. 2. Those who are truly convinced of sin, and penitent for…

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

(vv. 7)

7. (See on Job 38:3). Since Job has not only spoken against God, but accused Him of injustice, God challenges him to try, could he govern the world, as God by His power doth, and punish the proud and wicked (Job 40:7-14).