Job 40:5
What does Job 40:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 40:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; Yea, twice, but I will proceed no further.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; Yea, twice, but I will proceed no further.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Clothe thyself with beauty, and set thyself up on high, and be glorious, and put on goodly garments.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; yea twice, but I will proceed no further.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 9:15
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
- Job 9:3
If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.
- Jeremiah 31:18
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.
- 2 Kings 6:10
And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.
- Job 33:14
For God speaketh once, Yea twice, though man regardeth it not.
- Romans 3:19
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:
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