Job 42:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. ”

• Job 42:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  I know that thou canst do everything - This is said by Job in view of what had been declared by the Almighty in the previous chapters. It is an acknowledgment that God was omnipotent, and that ma...

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• Job 42:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no (a) thought can be withholden from thee. (a) No thought so secret but you see it, nor anything that you think but that you can bring it to pass...

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• Job 42:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's final speech (continuation of Job 40:3-5 ). Job 42:1 is to be removed as a gloss: as are also Job 42:3 a, Job 42:4 b, which are quoted from Job 38:2 f., and probably came in from th...

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• Job 42:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I know that thou canst do every thing , and that no thought can be withholden from thee. I know that thou canst do every thing - Thy power is unlimited; thy wisdom infinite.

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• Job 42:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I know that thou canst do every thing— I know that thou art able to do every thing, and that wisdom cannot be attained without thee. Heath. And that there is no design which thou canst not accom...

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• Job 42:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. In the first clause ("I know that thou canst do everything") he owns God to be omnipotent over nature, as...

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• Job 42:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Final Withdrawal Job at last has learned his lesson. The convincing evidences of wisdom, power, and love which God has offered him, have led him to lay aside his pride of intellect and pride...

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• Job 42:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Restored to Right Relations with God Job 42:1-17 In complete surrender Job bowed before God, confessing his ignorance and owning that he had spoken glibly of things which he understood not. He...

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• Job 42:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job's answer is full of the stateliness of a great submission. As he speaks the words of surrender he appears mightier in his submission than all the things into the presence of which he has been bro...

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• Job 42:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ Then Job answered the LORD, and said, (2) I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. (3) Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore...

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• Job 42:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  I know that thou canst do every [thing] ,.... As the works of creation, and the sustentation of them, show; so the Targum, "thou sustainest all things,'' and can manage, every creature made by him...

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• Job 42:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no thought can be withholden from thee. Ver. 2. I know that thou canst do everything ] God's power is either absolute or actual. By the former h...

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• Job 42:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  I know thou canst do every thing Job here subscribes to God's unlimited power, knowledge, and dominion, to prove which was the scope of God's discourse out of the whirlwind. And his judgment being...

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• Job 42:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOBS REPENTANCE AND PRAYER (vv.1-9) Who would not be totally subdued after hearing God speak such things as He did to Job? What a change took place in Job's attitude and in his words! He was hum...

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• Job 42:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Humble Confession. B. C. 1520.       1 Then Job answered the L ORD , and said,   2 I kno...

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• Job 42:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thou canst do; not only by power, (for that he always thought,) but also by right; about which he had in some sort doubted and disputed. It is a maxim in law, that a man can only do that which he h...

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• Job 42:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Notes Job 42:11 . “ A piece of money .” According to Gesenius and others, קשׂיִטָה ( kesitah ), from the unused root קָשַׂט = قَسَطٰ ( kasata ) to “be just or true;” whence قسْط ( Kistoon ) “bala...

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• Job 42:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 42:5 . But now mine eye seeth thee. I have seen thee in thy works, and heard the voice of nature. I have heard all those speeches of my friends, circumscribed in knowledge, and erroneous in ju...

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• Job 42:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Then Job answered the Lord, and said. Job’s confession and restoration I. Job’s acknowledgment of God’s greatness. Throughout his speeches Job had frequently asserted the majesty of God. But no...

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• Job 42:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  SECTION VII .— HISTORICAL SEQUEL TO THE DIALOG EXPOSITION Job 42:1-18 This concluding chapter divides into two parts. In the first part ( Job 42:1-18 ) Job makes his final subm...

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• Job 42:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job's Humble Confession.

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• Job 42:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 4:35 ; Ecclesiastes 3:14 ; Ephesians 1:11 ; Ezekiel 38:10 ; Genesis 18:14 ; Hebrews 4:12 ; Hebrews 4:13 ; Isaiah 14:27 ; Isaiah 43:13 ; Isaiah 46:10 ; Jeremiah 17:10 ; Jeremiah 32:...

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• Job 42:2 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

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• Job 42:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Thou canst, &c. — Job here subscribes to God's unlimited power, knowledge and dominion, to prove which was the scope of God's discourse out of the whirlwind. And his judgment being convinced of...

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