Job 40:7
 Job 40:7 
New International Version (©2011)
"Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Brace yourself like a man, because I have some questions for you, and you must answer them.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Now gird up your loins like a man; I will ask you, and you instruct Me.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Get ready to answer Me like a man; When I question you, you will inform Me.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Stand up like a man! I'll ask you some questions, and you give me some answers!

NET Bible (©2006)
"Get ready for a difficult task like a man. I will question you and you will inform me!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"Brace yourself like a man! I will ask you, and you will teach me.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Gird up your loins now like a man: I will demand of you, and declare you unto me.

American King James Version
Gird up your loins now like a man: I will demand of you, and declare you to me.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Gird up thy loins like a man : I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

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

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

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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, much less rescuing us from his justice; and therefore into his hand we must commit ourselves. The renewal of a believer proceeds in the same way of conviction, humbling, and watchfulness against remaining sin, as his first conversion. When convinced of many evils in our conduct, we still need convincing of many more.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - Gird up thy loins now like a man (see the comment on Job 38:3): I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Job is given every opportunity of making good his pleas before God. If he has anything to say that he really wishes to urge, God is ready, nay, anxious, to hear him.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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

declare thou unto me,.... And prepare to give an answer to what should be demanded of him. The same way of speaking is used in Job 38:3; See Gill on Job 38:3.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7. (See on [557]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).


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Job Humbles Himself Before God
6Then answered the LORD to Job out of the whirlwind, and said, 7Gird up your loins now like a man: I will demand of you, and declare you to me. 8Will you also cancel my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous? …

Job 38:3 Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
Job 42:4 "You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.'