Exodus 4:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

I am not eloquent; not able to deliver thy message acceptably and decently, either to Pharaoh or to the Israelites. Since thy appearance to me, thou hast made some change in my hand, but none in my tongue, but still I am, as I was, most unfit for so high an employment. But indeed he was therefore fit for it, as the unlearned apostles were for the preaching of the gospel, that the honour of their glorious works might be entirely given to God, and not to the instruments which he used.

Exodus 4:10

10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent,a neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.