Job 38:2

who is this that darkeneth counsel lit. who then is darkening counsel? The word thenmerely adds the emphasis of impatience or astonishment to the question, who…? The expression counselsuggests that the Lord had a plan or meaning in Job's afflictions, which the perverse and ignorant construction put on them by Job obscured. The word might have a wider sense and refer to sound wisdom in general in reference to man's life, which Job, by his particular utterances on God's providence, only darkened. The participle darkeningis thought by many to imply that the Divine Speaker broke in upon Job when in the act of darkening, that is, when speaking. If so, the speeches of Elihu are an interpolation. If is rather to strain the argument from the use of the participle to say that this mustbe the meaning.