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Job 42:2ESV·author unknown

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

Matthew Henry Presbyterian

Good men come late to owning their faults, though it costs them. God spoke once and Job heard it twice: power belongs to Him alone. Now that truth has gripped him not as doctrine but as judgment upon his own folly in speaking irreverently before the throne.

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Commenting on Job 42:1-6

John Gill Reformed Baptist

Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge?.... It may be understood, and supplied, as it is by Cocceius, "thou didst say"; as the Lord had said, or to this purpose; see Gill on Job 38:2; to which Job here replies, I am the foolish man that has done it, I own it with sorrow, shame, and confusion: or it may be interpreted as condemning...

Geneva Bible Notes Reformed

I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no thought can be withholden from thee. (a) No thought so secret but you see it, nor anything that you think but that you can bring it to pass.