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Selected Verse: Job 38:2 - Strong Concordance

Verse         Translation Text
Job 38:2 Strong Concordance Who is this that darkeneth [02821] counsel [06098] by words [04405] without knowledge [01847]?
  King James Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
this--Job.

counsel--impugning My divine wisdom in the providential arrangements of the universe. Such "words" (including those of the friends) rather obscure, than throw light on My ways. God is about to be Job's Vindicator, but must first bring him to a right state of mind for receiving relief.
 
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3 Who is he that hideth [05956] counsel [06098] without knowledge [01847]? therefore have I uttered [05046] that I understood [0995] not; things too wonderful [06381] for me, which I knew [03045] not.