Job 40:5

WEB

⁵I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

KJV

⁵Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

BSB

⁵I have spoken once, but I have no answer— twice, but I have nothing to add.”

FBV

⁵I have already said far too much and I won't say anything more.”

Extra References

Job 9:3

³If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

Psalms 62:11

¹¹God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

Job 33:14

¹⁴For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

Job 9:15

¹⁵Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

2 Kings 6:10

¹⁰The 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 or twice.

Job 34:31-32

³¹“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more. ³²Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

¹⁸“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are the LORD my God. ¹⁹Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

Romans 3:19

¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.