| Job 38:2 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge? (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | "Who is this that belittles my advice with words that do not show any knowledge about it?(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? |
| ASV: | Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge? |
| BBE: | Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge? |
| DBY: | Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? |
| ERV: | Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? |
| JPS: | Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? |
| WBS: | Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? |
| WEB: | "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? |
| YLT: | Who is this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge? |
| Job 38:2 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 35:16 So Job opens his mouth emptily; He multiplies words without knowledge."
Job 42:3 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' "Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know." (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 38:2 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 more obscure, and shows his own folly. |
| WES: | 38:2 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 Job; which Job had endeavoured to obscure and misrepresent. This first word which God spoke, struck Job to the heart. This he repeats and echoes to, chap.42:3, as the arrow that stuck fast in him. |
| MHC: | 38:1-3 Job had silenced, but had not convinced his friends. Elihu had silenced Job, but had not brought him to admit his guilt before God. It pleased the Lord to interpose. The Lord, in this discourse, humbles Job, and brings him to repent of his passionate expressions concerning God's providential dealings with him; and this he does, by calling upon Job to compare God's being from everlasting to everlasting, with his own time; God's knowledge of all things, with his own ignorance; and God's almighty power, with his own weakness. Our darkening the counsels of God's wisdom with our folly, is a great provocation to God. Humble faith and sincere obedience see farthest and best into the will of the Lord. |
| CONC: | Counsel Dark Darkeneth Darkening Darkens Makes Purpose |
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