Job 40:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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

Once ... twice - oftentimes, more than once (Job 33:14, cf. with 29, margin; Psalms 62:11), "I have spoken''-namely, against God.

Not answer - not plead against thee.

Job 40:5

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