Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 42:3

3. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledg ? therefore have I uttered that I understood not, things too wonderful for me, which I knew not .

i. e. What am I that I should dare to do so? Ah silly audacious wretch that I am, that I should be guilty of such madness!

Which words are repeated out of Ch. 38. 2. where they are explained.

Because my mind was without knowledge, therefore my speech was ignorant and foolish. Or, Being sensible of my ignorance and rashness, I think fit to make this humble and ingenious confession.

I have spoken foolishly and unadvisedly of things f[illegible: 1+ letters]r above my reach, even of God's infinite and soveraign Majesty and of his deep and unsearchable Counsels and Providence.

Marginal references: Chap. 38. [illegible: 1+ letters].; Psal. [illegible: 1+ letters]0. [illegible: 1+ letters]. & 13[illegible: 1+ letters]. [illegible: 1+ letters].