KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 42:3–4
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Job 42:3
3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
3*Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore haue I vttered that I vnderstood not, things too wonderfull for me, which I knew not.
- Chap. 38.2.
Job 42:4
4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
4Heare, I beseech thee, and I will speake: I will demand of thee, and declare thou vnto me.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 42:3
To conceal or keep from sight or knowledge; to lie concealed. As a noun, an animal skin.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Outside; not within; lacking; free from; or in the absence of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Understanding or awareness gained by knowing; recognition; what is known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Spoken; pronounced; disclosed; published; put into circulation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
understood
Comprehended, perceived the meaning, or knew with the mind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; exciting surprise; strange; astonishing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Perceived, understood, recognized, or was acquainted with.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Job 42:4
To perceive by the ear; to listen, attend, understand, or obey, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To ask earnestly; to implore, entreat, or plead with.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To utter words; to say, declare, address, or communicate by speech.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To question authoritatively and require an answer.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
To make known, announce, or show clearly.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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From verse 3
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Open the full verse study2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
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Open the full verse study1LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
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Open the full verse study6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
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Open the full verse study5Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
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Open the full verse study2Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
3I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
4Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
From verse 4
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Open the full verse study7Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
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Open the full verse study3Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
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Open the full verse study30And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
31And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.
32And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.
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Open the full verse study27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
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