Job 38:3 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Brace yourself like a man! I will ask you, and you will teach me.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

ASV:

Gird up now thy loins like a man; For I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

BBE:

Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

DBY:

Gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will demand of thee, and inform thou me.

ERV:

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

JPS:

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto Me.

WBS:

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

WEB:

Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

YLT:

Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

Job 38:3 Cross References

XREF:

Job 40:7 "Now gird up your loins like a man; I will ask you, and you instruct Me.

Job 42:4 'Hear, now, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me.' (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

38:3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I {c} will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
(c) Because he wished to dispute with God, Job 23:3, God reasons with him, to declare his rashness.

WES:

38:3 Gird up - As warriors then did for the battle.

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:

Answers Brace Cause Declare Demand Gird Inform Instruct Loins Question Questions Strength War

Answers Brace Cause Declare Demand Gird Inform Instruct Loins Question Questions Strength Together War

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