Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 38:2

"Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?" — Job 38:2 (ASV)

Who is this? —The question may be answered by Job’s own words (Job 14:1). It is a man as thus described, a dying and enfeebled man, like Job himself, not even a man in his best condition, but one so persecuted and exhausted as Job: one, therefore, altogether unequal to the task he has undertaken.

That darkens counsel. —That is, probably, my counsel, which was the matter under debate. The words, however, are often used proverbially in a general sense. Such discussions, carried on, as they inevitably are, in entire ignorance by blind mortals, must seem so to God’s omniscience, and can only be the darkening of counsel by words without knowledge.