Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 2. Who is this that darkeneth counsel ] As if he had said, Who art thou who pretendest to speak on the deep things of God, and the administration of his justice and providence, which thou canst not comprehend; and leavest my counsels and designs the darker for thy explanation?
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-3 - Job had silenced, but had not convinced his friends. Elihu had silence Job, but had not brought him to admit his guilt before God. It please the Lord to interpose. The Lord, in this discourse, humbles Job, an brings him to repent of his passionate expressions concerning God' providential dealings with him; and this he does, by calling upon Jo to compare God's being from everlasting to everlasting, with his ow time; God's knowledge of all things, with his own ignorance; and God' almighty power, with his own weakness. Our darkening the counsels of God's wisdom with our folly, is a great provocation to God. Humbl faith and sincere obedience see farthest and best into the will of the Lord.
Original Hebrew מי4310 זה2088 מחשׁיך2821 עצה6098 במלין4405 בלי1097 דעת׃1847
