Job 38:2

1 Timothy 1:7; Job 12:3; Job 23:4; Job 23:5; Job 24:25; Job 26:3; Job 27:11; Job 34:35; Job 35:16; Job 42:3

Related Commentaries of Job 38:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who is this - Referring doubtless to Job, for he is specified in the previous verse. Some have understood it of Elihu (see Schultens), but the co...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Who [is] this that (b) darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? (b) Which by seeking out the secret counsel of God by man's reason, makes it mo...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Yahweh, speaking to Job out of the storm, challenges him to the contest, which he has so often demanded.
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Who is this... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. darkeneth. Hebrew. hashak. See note on Job 3:6 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Who is this that darkeneth counsel - As if he had said, Who art thou who pretendest...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Who is this that darkeneth counsel, &c.— Nothing can be conceived more awful, than this appearance of Jehovah; nothing more sublime, than the m...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? This - Job. Counsel - impugning my divine wisdom in the providential arrang...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The First Speech of the Almighty ( Job 38:39 ) The marvels of creation, which witness to the infinite wisdom, power, and watchful care of the Crea...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The question evidently refers to Job. 'God condemns Job for making dark the divine plan of the world. He had spoken as though it was all a tangled ri...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Who is this? — The question may be answered by Job’s own words ( Job 14:1 ). It is a man as so described, a dying and enfeebled man, like Job himse...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XXVII. "MUSIC IN THE BOUNDS OF LAW" Job 38:1-41 OVER the shadowed life of Job, and the world shadowed for him by his own intellectual and mora...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Divine Power and Human Ignorance Job 38:1-18 When the storm had ceased and the thunder was hushed, a voice spoke out of the golden splendor of...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here begins the third movement in the great drama, that which deals with the controversy between Jehovah and Job. Out of the midst of the whirlwind t...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(2) Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? (3) Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou m...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

FINITE CREATURE V. INFINITE CREATOR ‘Who is this?… Where wast thou?’ Job 38:2 ; Job 38:4 I. Humility should be one grace which springs up...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Who [is] this ,.... Meaning not Elihu the last speaker, as some think; and there are some who suppose not only that these words are directed to him,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Who [is] this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Ver. 2. Who is this that darkeneth counsel ] Who is this that talketh thus? saith...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Who is this , &c. What and where is he that presumes to talk at this rate? That darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Words proceeding...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Marvellously, God Himself directly intervenes in this discussion so early in the history of man. The storm that had been brewing as Elihu spoke becom...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

God Answers Out of the Whirlwind. B. C. 1520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Who is this? it is a question of admiration and reprehension, What and where is he that presumeth to talk at this rate? this language becomes not a...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JEHOVAH’S ADDRESS TO JOB Elihu had now said all he intended. Possibly interrupted by the storm which had been gathering during his speech. Out o...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 38:1 . The whirlwind. Clouds and flames are the chariots of the Lord, in deigning to speak with men. When he spake to Elijah in Horeb, it was...
The Biblical Illustrator

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said. The address of the Almighty This sublime discourse is represented as made from the m...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

CLOSE OF THE CONTROVERSY BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY . EXPOSITION The discourse, by which the Almighty answers Job a...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Manifestation of God's Majesty in Creation
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? In permitting Job to suffer, the Lord was not acting in a capricious, arbitrary way, b...
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 redemp...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Counsel — God's counsel. For the great matter of the dispute between Job and his friends, was concerning God's counsel and providence in afflicting...

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Related Commentaries of Job 38:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 38:2