The LORD Challenges Job
Job 38:2
In 11 translations
- BSB
- “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?Cited in Job 42:3
- KJV
- Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
- WEB
- “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
- ASV
- Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?
- LSV
- “Who [is] this—darkening counsel, || By words without knowledge?
- YLT
- Who [is] this — darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?
- DBY
- Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
- DRC
- Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful words?
- GNV
- Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?
- JPS
- Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
- LXXE
- Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in his heart, and thinks to conceal them from me?
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- מִ֤י זֶ֨ה ׀ מַחְשִׁ֖יךְ עֵצָ֥ה בְמִלִּ֗ין בְּֽלִי־דָֽעַת׃
- LXX-Br
- Τίς οὗτος ὁ κρύπτων με βουλὴν, συνέχεν δὲ ῥήματα ἐν καρδίᾳ, ἐμὲ δὲ οἴεται κρύπτειν;
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 42:3You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
- Job 35:16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
- 1 Timothy 1:7They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.
- Job 34:35‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’
- Job 27:11I will instruct you in the power of God. I will not conceal the ways of the Almighty.
- Job 12:3But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
- Job 23:4–5I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments. I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.
- Job 24:25If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
- Job 26:3How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
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