Job 42:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Who is he that hideth counsel? What am I, that I should be guilty of such madness? Therefore have I uttered that I understood not Because my mind was without knowledge, therefore my speech was ignorant and foolish; things which I knew not I have spoken foolishly and unadvisedly of things far above my reach. “The recollection of Job,” says Dr. Dodd, “in this and the two following verses, is inimitably fine, and begins the catastrophe of the book, which is truly worthy of what precedes. The interrogatory clause in the beginning of this verse is a repetition of what Jehovah had said; the latter part of this verse, and the fourth and fifth verses, are Job's conclusions.”