7Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
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Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! …
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
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…
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