Job 38:2
Who is this that casteth darkness [on my] counsel by words without knowledge?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
In Context
1Then did the Lord address Job out of the storm-wind, and said,
3Do but gird up like a mighty man thy loins: and I will ask thee, and do thou inform me.
Cross References
Job 12:3I also have sense like you; I do not fall short compared with you: and who possesseth not such things as these?
Job 24:25But if it be not so, who will prove me a liar, and render nought my word?
Job 27:11I will instruct you concerning what is in the hand of God: [the way] which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
Job 35:16But Job openeth wide his mouth for nought: without knowledge he heapeth up words.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:2-4
God Answers Out of the Whirlwind. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, 2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? 3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Let us observe here, 1. Who speaks— The Lord, Jehovah, not a created angel, but the eternal Word himself, the second person in the blessed Trinity, for it is he by whom the worlds were made, and that was no other than the Son of God. The same speaks here that… Read the whole commentary →