Job Chapter 38 verse 2 Holy Bible
Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?
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Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?
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Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
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Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
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Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
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"Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge?
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Who `is' this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? It is very noticeable that God entirely ignores the reasonings of Elihu, and addresses himself, in the first instance, wholly to Job, with whom he begins by remonstrating. Job has not been without fault. He has spoken many "words without knowledge" or with insufficient knowledge, and has thus trenched on irreverence, and given the enemies of God occasion to blaspheme. Moreover, he has "darkened counsel." Instead of making the ways of God clear to his friends and companions, he has east doubts upon God's moral government (Job 21:7-26), upon his mercy and loving-kindness (Job 16:7-14), almost upon his justice (Job 19:7; Job 31:1-35). He is thus open to censure, and receives censure, and owns himself "vile" (Job 40:4), before peace and reconciliation can be established.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Who is this?--The question may be answered by Job's own words (Job 14:1). It is a man as so described, a dying and enfeebled man, like Job himself, not even a man in his best estate, but one so persecuted and exhausted as Job: one, therefore, altogether unequal to the task he has undertaken.That darkeneth counsel.--That is, probably, my counsel, which was the matter under debate. The words, however, are often used proverbially in a general sense. Such discussions, carried on, as they cannot but be, in entire ignorance by blind mortals, must to God's omniscience seem thus, and cannot be otherwise than the darkening of counsel by words without knowledge.
