Job 40:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

I will not answer, or speak again; answering being oft put for speaking. I will contend no more with thee. Yea, twice, i.e. ofttimes, or again and again, the definite number being used indefinitely. I will proceed no further in such bold and presumptuous expressions and accusations of thy providence towards me. Vain therefore are the excuses which some interpreters make for Job, as if he were faultless in his foregoing discourses, when both God chargeth him with faultiness therein, and Job himself confesseth it.

Job 40:5

5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.