Job 40:4 | JFB | STEP | 4. I am (too) vile (to reply). It is a very different thing to vindicate ourselves before God, from what it is before men. Job could do the latter, not the former. lay ... hand ... upon ... mouth-- I have no plea to offer ( ; ).

‏ Job 40:4

4. I am (too) vile (to reply). It is a very different thing to vindicate ourselves before God, from what it is before men. Job could do the latter, not the former.

lay ... hand ... upon ... mouth--I have no plea to offer (Job 21:5; Jud 18:19).