Job 40:7 {2}
Good News Translation
Now stand up straight and answer my questions.

New Revised Standard Version
“Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you declare to me.

Contemporary English Version
Face me and answer the questions I ask!

New American Bible
Gird up your loins now, like a man. I will question you, and you tell me the answers!

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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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.

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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.

Job 40:6
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