Exodus 4:11

World English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Moses said to Yahweh, "Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue." ¹¹ Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh? ¹² Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak." ¹³ He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else." ¹⁴ The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. ¹⁵ You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do. ¹⁶ He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God. ¹⁷ You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 18:14, Psalms 51:15, Psalms 94:9, Psalms 146:8, Isaiah 6:7, Isaiah 35:5, Isaiah 35:6, Isaiah 42:7, Jeremiah 1:6, Jeremiah 1:9, Ezekiel 3:26, Ezekiel 3:27, Ezekiel 33:22, Amos 3:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:28 - and all Numbers 22:28 - the Lord opened Proverbs 16:1 - and Proverbs 20:12 - General Song of Solomon 2:14 - that art Isaiah 32:4 - the tongue Isaiah 42:18 - ye deaf Isaiah 50:4 - God Isaiah 57:19 - the fruit Matthew 9:33 - the dumb Mark 7:37 - he maketh Luke 1:20 - thou shalt Luke 12:12 - General Luke 21:15 - I will Luke 24:45 - General John 5:19 - and John 9:7 - and came John 10:21 - Can Acts 2:4 - as Acts 9:8 - he saw 2 Corinthians 3:5 - but James 1:17 - good

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

Genesis 4:14
Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

Genesis 4:15
Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.

Genesis 4:16
Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Genesis 4:19
Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Genesis 4:20
Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle.

Genesis 4:21
His brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.

Genesis 4:26
There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on Yahweh's name.

Job 16:18
"Earth, don't cover my blood, Let my cry have no place to rest.

Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto him, who hath made man's mouth?.... Made that itself, and put in it the power and faculty of speech, even into the mouth of the first man, Adam, as the Targum of Jonathan; and so of every other man, did not the Lord do it? none else could, and therefore he that made it, and made it capable of speaking, could remove any impediments in it, and cause it to speak freely and fluently:

or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I, the Lord? as all the senses, and the perfection of them, are from him, so all the imperfections in them are according to his good pleasure; what he suffers to be, and can remedy when he thinks fit: it is he that gives the seeing eye and hearing ear, can and does make blind and deaf, that gives also the speaking mouth, and makes that dumb, and can open it again as he pleases! and what is it that he cannot do?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 4:11. Who hath made man's mouth? &c. — Cannot he who formed the mouth, the whole organs of speech, and hath given the gift of speech also, cannot he give utterance? God can take away those gifts and restore them again. Do not provoke him: he who created the eye, the ear, and the mouth, hath also made the blind, the deaf, and the dumb.