Job 40:5

5 Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour.

Job 40:5 Meaning and Commentary

Job 40:5

Once have I spoken; but I will not answer
Some think this refers to what he had just now said of his vileness, he had owned that, and that was all he had to say, or would say, he would give no other answer; Jarchi says, some suppose he has respect to his words in ( Job 9:22 ) ;

yea, twice; but I will proceed no further;
the meaning seems to be, that he who had once and again, or very often, at least in some instances, spoken very imprudently and indecently, for the future would take care not to speak in such a manner: for this confession was not quite free and full; and therefore the Lord takes him in hand again, to bring him to make a more full and ingenuous one, as he does in ( Job 42:1-6 ) .

Job 40:5 In-Context

3 Do not set aside my judgment: and dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous?

4 Hast thou an arm like the Lord's? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his?

5 Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour.

6 And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.

7 Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.