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The book of Job has been highly spoken of by many, both inside the Christian church and out. Thomas Carlyle, the nineteenth-century man of letters, wrote of it, “I call it, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.… There is nothing written, I think, in the Bible or out of it, of equal literary merit.” Martin Luther described it as “magnificent and...

The LORD’s first speech proceeds from 38:1–40:2. We have already commented on 38:1 and 3 and now focus on the remainder of the passage. 38:2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Elihu had charged Job with speaking without knowledge and insight (see 34:35) and here the LORD endorses that judgement. He describes Job as one who ‘darkens counsel by words without knowledge’, charging him with having confused matters
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