‏ Job 40:3-5

3. Lord--Jehovah.

4. I am (too) vile (to reply). It is a very different thing to vindicate ourselves before God, from what it is before men. Job could do the latter, not the former.

lay ... hand ... upon ... mouth--I have no plea to offer (Job 21:5; Jud 18:19).

5. Once ... twice--oftentimes, more than once (Job 33:14, compare with Job 33:29; Psa 62:11):

I have spoken--namely, against God.

not answer--not plead against Thee.

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