Job 42:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Who is he? i.e. what am I, that I should dare to do so? Ah silly audacious wretch that I am, that I should be guilty of such madness! That hideth counsel without knowledge; which words are repeated out of Job 38:2, where they are explained. Therefore; because my mind was without knowledge, therefore my speech was ignorant and foolish. Or, being sensible of my ignorance and rashness, I think fit to make this humble and ingenuous confession. Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not; I have spoken foolishly and unadvisedly of things far above my reach, even of God's infinite and sovereign majesty, and of his deep and unsearchable counsels and providence.

Job 42:3

3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.