Teks -- Job 40:5 (NET)

40:5 I have spoken once, but I cannot answer; twice, but I will say no more.”

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Wesley: Job 40:5 - Answer

Speak again; I will contend no more with thee.

Wesley: Job 40:5 - Twice

Often, the definite number being used indefinitely.

JFB: Job 40:5 - Once . . . twice

Oftentimes, more than once (Job 33:14, compare with Job 33:29; Psa 62:11):

JFB: Job 40:5 - I have spoken

Namely, against God.

JFB: Job 40:5 - not answer

Not plead against Thee.

Clarke: Job 40:5 - Once have I spoken

Once have I spoken - See on Job 42:3 (note), etc

Clarke: Job 40:5 - I will proceed no farther

I will proceed no farther - I shall attempt to justify myself no longer; I have spoken repeatedly; and am confounded at my want of respect for my Maker, and at the high thoughts which I have entertained of my own righteousness. All is impurity in the presence of thy Majesty.

TSK: Job 40:5 - but I will not // twice // but I will proceed

but I will not : Job 34:31, Job 34:32; Rom 3:19

twice : Job 33:14; 2Ki 6:10; Psa 62:11

but I will proceed : Jer 31:18, Jer 31:19

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Job 40:5 - I will not answer // Yea, twice // I will proceed no further

I will not answer or speak again ; answering being oft put for speaking. I will contend no more with thee.

Yea, twice i.e. ofttimes, or again and again, the definite number being used indefinitely.

I will proceed no further in such bold and presumptuous expressions and accusations of thy providence towards me. Vain therefore are the excuses which some interpreters make for Job, as if he were faultless in his foregoing discourses, when both God chargeth him with faultiness therein, and Job himself confesseth it.

Gill: Job 40:5 - Once have I spoken; but I will not answer // yea, twice; but I will proceed no further

Once have I spoken; but I will not answer,.... Some think this refers to what he had just now said of his vileness, he had owned that, and that was all he had to say, or would say, he would give no other answer; Jarchi says, some suppose he has respect to his words in Job 9:22;

yea, twice; but I will proceed no further; the meaning seems to be, that he who had once and again, or very often, at least in some instances, spoken very imprudently and indecently, for the future would take care not to speak in such a manner: for this confession was not quite free and full; and therefore the Lord takes him in hand again, to bring him to make a more full and ingenuous one, as he does in Job 42:1.