Job 37:19
Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 37 connects to 10 cross-references. Elihu's speech reaches its climax with a sustained meditation on the divine wonders of thunderstorm, lightning, snow, and wind. He challenges Job with rhetorical questions: can Job balance the clouds? Does he know how God commands them? This prepares the …
Other Translations
Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot set our speech in order by reason of darkness.
Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.
Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.
Cross References
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things …
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of …
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for …
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.