Job 38:3

3. Gird up now thy loins See note, Job 12:20. Job, who controverts the purposes of the Most High, from the nature of the case assumes an equal or co-extensive knowledge with Deity an assumption now to be tested by a series of questions which shall still further demonstrate his absolute ignorance of the physical world, and logically show his utter incompetency to sit in judgment upon the simplest questions of the moral world. He is, therefore, called upon to “gird up his loins.” for he will need all his resources for the task before him.

Like a man A recognition of the true nobleness of the manhood of normal man. 1 Corinthians 16:13. Poverty and distress, and even the loathsomeness of disease, sully it not “a man’s a man for a’ that.”