Job 38:3 Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.

◄ Job 38:3 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.

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

New American Standard Bible
"Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me!

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Get ready to answer Me like a man; when I question you, you will inform Me.

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

American Standard Version
Gird up now thy loins like a man; For 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 answer thou me.

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

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

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

38:1-3 Job had silenced, but had not convinced his friends. Elihu had silenced Job, but had not brought him to admit his guilt before God. It pleased the Lord to interpose. The Lord, in this discourse, humbles Job, and brings him to repent of his passionate expressions concerning God's providential dealings with him; and this he does, by calling upon Job to compare God's being from everlasting to everlasting, with his own time; God's knowledge of all things, with his own ignorance; and God's almighty power, with his own weakness. Our darkening the counsels of God's wisdom with our folly, is a great provocation to God. Humble faith and sincere obedience see farthest and best into the will of the Lord.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. a man—hero, ready for battle (1Co 16:13), as he had wished (Job 9:35; 13:22; 31:37). The robe, usually worn flowing, was girt up by a girdle when men ran, labored, or fought (1Pe 1:13).