Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. {answer...: Heb. make me know}

And he said {unto him}, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do {it}, if I find thirty there.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which {am but} dust and ashes:

Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?