Job 40:7 {2}
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Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

Gird

Job 13:22 Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.

Job 23:3,4 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne? . . .

Job 38:3 Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.

I

Job 42:4 Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

Context
Job Humbles Himself Before the LORD
6And the Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind, said: 7Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.8Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?…
Cross References
Job 38:3
Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.

Job 42:4
Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

Lexicon
“Now
נָ֣א (nā)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then'

brace
אֱזָר־ (’ĕ·zār-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 247: To gird, encompass, equip

yourself
חֲלָצֶ֑יךָ (ḥă·lā·ṣe·ḵā)
Noun - mdc | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2504: The loins

like a man;
כְגֶ֣בֶר (ḵə·ḡe·ḇer)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1397: A valiant man, warrior, a person simply

I will question you,
אֶ֝שְׁאָלְךָ֗ (’eš·’ā·lə·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7592: To inquire, to request, to demand

and you shall answer Me.
וְהוֹדִיעֵֽנִי׃ (wə·hō·w·ḏî·‘ê·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know


Additional Translations
“Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me.Gird up your loins now like a man: I will demand of you, and declare you to me.

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

Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.

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

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

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

"Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.

Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.
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