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Job 38

Job 38:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Who is this that darkeneth
chashak (Hebrew #2821)
to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken
KJV usage: be black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.
Pronounce: khaw-shak'
Origin: a primitive root
counsel
`etsah (Hebrew #6098)
advice; by implication, plan; also prudence
KJV usage: advice, advisement, counsel(l-(or)), purpose.
Pronounce: ay-tsaw'
Origin: from 3289
by words
millah (Hebrew #4405)
a word; collectively, a discourse; figuratively, a topic
KJV usage: + answer, by-word, matter, any thing (what) to say, to speak(-ing), speak, talking, word.
Pronounce: mil-law'
Origin: from 4448 (plural masculine as if from milleh {mil-leh'}
n without knowledge
da`ath (Hebrew #1847)
knowledge
KJV usage: cunning, (ig-)norantly, know(-ledge), (un-)awares (wittingly).
Pronounce: dah'-ath
Origin: from 3045
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Job 34:35• 35Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom. (Job 34:35)
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Job 35:16• 16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. (Job 35:16)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Job 12:3• 3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? (Job 12:3)
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Job 23:4‑5• 4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
 5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. (Job 23:4‑5)
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Job 24:25• 25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? (Job 24:25)
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Job 26:3• 3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? (Job 26:3)
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Job 27:11• 11I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. (Job 27:11)
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Job 34:35• 35Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom. (Job 34:35)
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Job 35:16• 16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. (Job 35:16)
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Job 42:3• 3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. (Job 42:3)
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1 Tim. 1:7• 7Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. (1 Tim. 1:7)
• “Who is this that darkeneth counsel,” that hides the purposes of God and the truth, “by words without knowledge” Job had poured out a flood of words—lamentations, protestations, accusations. There was much that was true and excellent, but all was vitiated, so far as God’s purposes were concerned, by the exaltation of his own righteousness at the expense of Jehovah’s. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)
• Was it some mighty angel, gifted with heavenly wisdom, that dared lay a charge against his Maker? No, it was a man, frail, ignorant, sinful. The Lord’s question turns Job’s thought from all his fancied wrongs to himself. The psalmist, as he beholds the heavenly creation (Ps. 8), asks, “What is man?” Abraham, in God’s presence, had declared he was but “dust and ashes” (Gen. 18:27). Paul closes the opposers mouth by asking, “Nay but, O man, who art thou, that repliest against God?” (Rom. 9:20). (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?