Job 37:19

19 Tell us what we should say to him; we cannot get our arguments ready because we do not have enough understanding.

Job 37:19 Meaning and Commentary

Job 37:19

Teach us what we shall say unto him
To this wonder working God, of whose common works of nature we know so little; how we should reason with him about his works of Providence, when we know so little of these:

[for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of darkness;
by reason of darkness in themselves, which is in all men naturally, and even in the saints in this state of imperfection; and by reason of the clouds and darkness which are about the Lord himself, who is incomprehensible in his nature and perfections; and by reason of the darkness cast about his providential dealings with men, so that they are unsearchable and past finding out; and the best of men are at a loss how to order their speech, or discourse with God concerning these things.

Job 37:19 In-Context

17 You suffer in your clothes when the land is silenced by the hot, south wind.

18 You cannot stretch out the sky like God and make it look as hard as polished bronze.

19 Tell us what we should say to him; we cannot get our arguments ready because we do not have enough understanding.

20 Should God be told that I want to speak? Would a person ask to be swallowed up?

21 No one can look at the sun when it is bright in the sky after the wind has blown all the clouds away.