Job 38:2

Yahweh Challenges Job

¹ Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, ² “Who is this that darkens counsel
By words without knowledge?
³ “Now gird up your loins like a man,
And I will ask you, and you instruct Me!

Purpose of God

Words Without Knowledge

Job

Job 35:16

So Job opens his mouth emptily;
He multiplies words without knowledge.”

Job 42:3

‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.”

1 Timothy 1:7

wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.

Job 12:3

“But I have intelligence as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
And who does not know such things as these?

Job 23:4-5

“I would present my case before Him
And fill my mouth with arguments.

Job 24:25

“Now if it is not so, who can prove me a liar,
And make my speech worthless?”

Job 26:3

“What counsel you have given to one without wisdom!
What helpful insight you have abundantly provided!

Job 27:11

“I will instruct you in the power of God;
What is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

Job 34:35

‘Job speaks without knowledge,
And his words are without wisdom.