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Job 42:1

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Then Job replied to the LORD:

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Then Job answered Jehovah, and said,

KJV

Then Job answered the Lord, and said,

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This verse in Job 42

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Job · Written before 1274.

After the Lord reproved Job for his intemperate speech which seemed to smack of pride because he asserted that he was just so much that it seemed to some people to lead to the derogation of divine justice, Job humbly answers considering himself convinced. First, …

This site's exposition

Then Job replied to the LORD

on Job 42:1-3

Job's reply takes up God's charge from 38:2 and turns it into his own confession. Henry sees Job make God's rebuke his own indictment in place of defending his earlier words. Barnes reads the confession as answering Job's demand to audit his suffering, not the suffering itself.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), not by way of contradiction (he had promised not so to answer again, ch. xl. 5 ), but by way of submission; and thus we must all answer the calls of God. He subscribes to the truth of God's unlimited power, knowledge, and dominion, to prove which was the scope of God's discourse out of the whirlwind,

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Then Job answered the Lord, and said.

The words behind it

5 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּ֖עַןand he answered

    vaiyaanH6030 →331 times

  • אִיּ֥וֹבJob

    ʾiyovH347 →58 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יְהוָ֗הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וַיֹּאמַֽר׃and he said

    vaiyomarH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Job Hears of His Misfortunes, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Job: the study guide →Read Job 42 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Job; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.

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