Job 40 · Verse 7

Job 40:7

Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job 40:7, King James Version

Job 40:7 in other translations

BSB“Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
WEB“Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.
ASVGird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
YLTGird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.
DARBYGird up now thy loins like a man: I will demand of thee, and inform thou me.
BBEGet your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
WebsterGird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou to me.

What does Job 40:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
7. (See on Job 38:3). Since Job has not only spoken against God, but accused Him of injustice, God challenges him to try, could he govern the world, as God by His power doth, and punish the proud and wicked (Job 40:7-14).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 7 Gird up thy loins - See Job 38:1-3. Some think that this and the preceding verse have been repeated here from Job 38:1-3, and that several of the words there, here, and Job 42:3, have been repeated, in after times, to connect some false gatherings of the sheets of parchment, on which the end of this poem was originally written. See on Job 40:1 (note), and at the end of the chapter.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 40:6-14

Those who profit by what they have heard from God, shall hear more from him. And those who are truly convinced of sin, yet need to be more thoroughly convinced and more humbled. No doubt God, and he only, has power to humble and bring down proud men; he has wisdom to know when and how to do it, and it is not for us to teach him how to govern the world. Our own hands cannot save us by recommending us to God's grace…

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Job 40:7 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֱזָר\־'e.zor-gird upH247
נָ֣אna'pleaseH4994
כְגֶ֣בֶרkhe.Ge.verlike a manH1397
חֲלָצֶ֑יךָcha.la.Tzei.khaloins yourH2504
אֶ֝שְׁאָלְךָ֗'esh.'al.khaI will ask youH7592
וְהוֹדִיעֵֽנִי\׃ve.ho.di.'E.niand make known to meH3045

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 40:7

  • Job 38:3

    Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

  • Job 42:4

    Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

  • Job 23:3-4

    Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

  • Job 13:22

    Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gird.
13:22; 23:3,4; 38:3
I.
42:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 40:6

    Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

  • Job 40:7

    Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

  • Job 40:8

    Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

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Job 40:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Mira á todo soberbio, y humíllalo, y quebranta á los impíos en su asiento.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ceins tes reins comme un homme; je t’interrogerai, et tu m’instruiras!
German
Elberfelder 1871		Sieh an alles Hoffärtige, beuge es, und reiße nieder die Gesetzlosen auf ihrer Stelle!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Respice cunctos superbos, et confunde eos, et contere impios in loco suo.