Job 40:5
3 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
6 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I have spoken once, but I have no answer— twice, but I have nothing to add.”
- KJV
- Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
- WEB
- I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
- ASV
- Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; Yea, twice, but I will proceed no further.
- DARBY
- Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; yea twice, but I will proceed no further.
- BLB
- Once I have spoken, and I will not answer—and twice, and I will not add.”
- ÅB
- En gang har jeg talt, men jeg tar ikke mere til orde - ja to ganger, men jeg gjør det ikke mere.
[^1]: d.e. tvinge den til å følge plogfuren. - OTB
- Jeg har talt én gang, og jeg vil ikke svare;
to ganger, og jeg vil ikke legge noe til.” - B1930
- En gang har jeg talt, men jeg tar ikke mere til orde - ja to ganger, men jeg gjør det ikke mere.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 33:14
For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
Read in contextPsalms 62:11
God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.
Read in contextJob 9:15
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
Read in contextJob 9:3
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Read in contextRomans 3:19
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Read in contextJob 34:31–32
Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
Read in context2 Kings 6:10
And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
Read in contextJeremiah 31:18–19
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
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