King James Version
What Does Job 38:3 Mean?
“Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. answer: Heb. make me know”
Context
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Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
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Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
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Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. answer: Heb. make me know
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Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. hast: Heb. knowest understanding
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Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Commentary
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary**24. pen--**graver.
**lead--**poured into the engraven characters, to make them better seen [Umbreit]. Not on leaden plates; for it was "in the rock" that they were engraved. Perhaps it was the hammer that was of "lead," as sculptors find more delicate incisions are made by it, than by a harder hammer. FOSTER (One Primeval Language) has shown that the inscriptions on the rocks in Wady-Mokatta, along Israel's route through the desert, record the journeys of that people, as Cosmas Indicopleustes asserted, A.D. 535.
**for ever--**as long as the rock lasts.
Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, David Brown. Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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