“ Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? ”
Who is this - Referring doubtless to Job, for he is specified in the previous verse. Some have understood it of Elihu (see Schultens), but the connection evidently demands that it should be under...
Who [is] this that (b) darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? (b) Which by seeking out the secret counsel of God by man's reason, makes it more obscure, and shows his own folly.
Yahweh, speaking to Job out of the storm, challenges him to the contest, which he has so often demanded.
Who is this... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. darkeneth. Hebrew. hashak. See note on Job 3:6 .
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Who is this that darkeneth counsel - As if he had said, Who art thou who pretendest to speak on the deep things of God, and the admini...
Who is this that darkeneth counsel, &c.— Nothing can be conceived more awful, than this appearance of Jehovah; nothing more sublime, than the manner in which his speech is introduced. Thunders,...
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? This - Job. Counsel - impugning my divine wisdom in the providential arrangements of the universe. Such "words" (including th...
The First Speech of the Almighty ( Job 38:39 ) The marvels of creation, which witness to the infinite wisdom, power, and watchful care of the Creator, are presented to Job in such a way as to forc...
Who is this? — The question may be answered by Job’s own words ( Job 14:1 ). It is a man as so described, a dying and enfeebled man, like Job himself, not even a man in his best estate, but one so...
XXVII. "MUSIC IN THE BOUNDS OF LAW" Job 38:1-41 OVER the shadowed life of Job, and the world shadowed for him by his own intellectual and moral gloom, a storm sweeps, and from the storm issues...
Divine Power and Human Ignorance Job 38:1-18 When the storm had ceased and the thunder was hushed, a voice spoke out of the golden splendor of the sky. See Job 37:21-22 . Job had challenged Go...
Here begins the third movement in the great drama, that which deals with the controversy between Jehovah and Job. Out of the midst of the whirlwind the divine voice speaks. Its first word is a challe...
(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. Observe, it is to Job the LORD directeth his s...
FINITE CREATURE V. INFINITE CREATOR ‘Who is this?… Where wast thou?’ Job 38:2 ; Job 38:4 I. Humility should be one grace which springs up in my heart as I think of the majesty and might of...
Who [is] this ,.... Meaning not Elihu the last speaker, as some think; and there are some who suppose not only that these words are directed to him, but all that is said in this and the following ch...
Who [is] this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Ver. 2. Who is this that darkeneth counsel ] Who is this that talketh thus? saith God, stepping forth, as it were, from behind the...
Who is this , &c. What and where is he that presumes to talk at this rate? That darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Words proceeding from ignorance, mistake, and want of consideratio...
Marvellously, God Himself directly intervenes in this discussion so early in the history of man. The storm that had been brewing as Elihu spoke becomes a whirlwind, and God spoke to Job out of the wh...
God Answers Out of the Whirlwind. B. C. 1520. 1 Then the L ORD answered Job out of the...
Who is this? it is a question of admiration and reprehension, What and where is he that presumeth to talk at this rate? this language becomes not a creature, much less a professor of religion. The...
JEHOVAH’S ADDRESS TO JOB Elihu had now said all he intended. Possibly interrupted by the storm which had been gathering during his speech. Out of the storm-cloud, from which already issued thund...
Job 38:1 . The whirlwind. Clouds and flames are the chariots of the Lord, in deigning to speak with men. When he spake to Elijah in Horeb, it was with wind, and fire, and earthquake. Likewise in...
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said. The address of the Almighty This sublime discourse is represented as made from the midst of the tempest or whirlwind which Elihu descr...
CLOSE OF THE CONTROVERSY BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY . EXPOSITION The discourse, by which the Almighty answers Job and rebukes his "friends," occupies four chapters (...
The Manifestation of God's Majesty in Creation
1 Timothy 1:7 ; Job 12:3 ; Job 23:4 ; Job 23:5 ; Job 24:25 ; Job 26:3 ; Job 27:11 ; Job 34:35 ; Job 35:16 ; Job 42:3
God Speaks to Job Job 38:1-41 to Job 42:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed...
Counsel — God's counsel. For the great matter of the dispute between Job and his friends, was concerning God's counsel and providence in afflicting Job; which Job had endeavoured to obscure and mis...