Job 40:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Gird up thy loins - See Job 38:1-3. Some think that this and the preceding verse have been repeated here from Job 38:1-3, and that several of the words there, here, and Job 42:3, have been repeated, in after times, to connect some false gatherings of the sheets of parchment, on which the end of this poem was originally written. See on Job 40:1 (note), and at the end of the chapter.