Job 42:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 42

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⁴Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Job 42:4 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 40:7
Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job 38:3
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Genesis 18:30-32
And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. …
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

Atheism Attributes of God Fasting Gentleness God Guidance Humiliation and Self-Affliction Humility

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-6)

The words of Job justifying himself were ended, Job 31:40. After that he said no more to that purport. The words of Job judging and condemning himself began, Job 40:4, 5. Here he goes on with words to the same purport. Though his patience had not its perfect work, his repentance for his impatience had. He is here thoroughly humbled for his folly and unadvised speaking, and it was forgiven him. Goo…

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

(vv. 4)

4. When I said, “Hear,” &c., Job’s demand (Job 13:22) convicted him of being “without knowledge.” God alone could speak thus to Job, not Job to God: therefore he quotes again God’s words as the groundwork of retracting his own foolish words.