Hear and accept my humble and penitent confession and recantation. I will demand of thee; or, and inquire, to wit, counsel or instruction, as a scholar doth of his master, as the following words note. I will no more saucily dispute the matter with thee, but beg information from thee. The words which God had uttered to Job by way of challenge, Job 38:3, Job 40:7, Job returns to him again in way of submission.
HEAR, I BESEECH THEE, AND I WILL SPEAK - This is the language of humble, docile submission. On former occasions he had spoken confidently and boldly of God; he had called in question the equity of his...
VI. THE CONFESSION OF JOB CHAPTER 42:1-6 Critics claim that Job's answer is misplaced and that it really ought to be put in connection with chapter 41:3-5. This is another evidence of the lack of spi...
Job's final speech (continuation of Job 40:3). Job 42:1 is to be removed as a gloss: as are also Job 42:3 a, Job 42:4 b, which are quoted from...
HEAR. Hear, now. I WILL DEMAND OF THEE. Supply the _Ellipsis_ (App-6): "[Thou saidst];. Let him answer Me' "(See Job 40:2)....
_hear, I beseech thee_ Or, _hear now_, and I will speak. The words are not an entreaty on the part of Job that the Almighty would further instruct him; they are a repetition of the words of the Lord ...
Job 40:6 to Job 42:6. The Lord's Second Answer to Job out of the Storm Shall Man charge God with unrighteousness in His Rule of the World? All that the first speech of the Lord touched upon was the...
Job 42:1-6. Job's reply to the Lord's Second Address from the Storm The Lord's words make Job feel more deeply than before that greatness which belongs to God alone, and with deep compunction he retr...
D. MAN IN GOD'S IMAGE VS. GOD IN MAN'S IMAGE (Job 42:1-6) TEXT 42:1-6 42 THEN JOB ANSWERED JEHOVAH AND SAID, 2 I know that thou canst do all things, And that no purpose of thine can be restrained....
_HEAR, I BESEECH THEE, AND I WILL SPEAK: I WILL DEMAND OF THEE, AND DECLARE THOU UNTO ME._ When I said, "Hear ... and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me" (Job 13:22); my dem...
42:4 me. (a-16) See ch. 38.2,3...
JOB'S FINAL WITHDRAWAL Job at last has learned his lesson. The convincing evidences of wisdom, power, and love which God has offered him, have led him to lay aside his pride of intellect and pride of...
Again he repeats God's words in Job 38:3 and Job 40:7. 5, 6. Job declares that he now understands God's relations towards man in a far deeper and truer sense than he had hitherto. At once he retracts...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 42 THE END OF JOB’S TROUBLE...
Job was a servant of God, even before Job began to suffer. Then, Job trusted God because other people had told him about God. When God spoke, Job had a new experience. Job learned many things from Go...
HEAR, I BESEECH THEE. — This cannot in like manner be appropriately assigned to Job, but, as in Job 38:3; Job 40:7, must be referred to God; then the confession of Job 42:5 comes in very grandly. How...
שְֽׁמַֽע ־נָ֭א וְ אָנֹכִ֣י אֲדַבֵּ֑ר אֶ֝שְׁאָלְךָ֗...
RESTORED TO RIGHT RELATIONS WITH GOD Job 42:1 In complete surrender Job bowed before God, confessing his ignorance and owning that he had spoken glibly of things which he understood not. He had retor...
Job's answer is full of the stateliness of a great submission. As he speaks the words of surrender he appears mightier in his submission than all the things into the presence of which he has been brou...
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, (d) and declare thou unto me. (d) He shows that he will be God's scholar to learn of him....
(1) В¶ Then Job answered the LORD, and said, (2) I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. (3) Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore h...
God Speaks Job Repents I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we covered a lot of territory! 1. We finished with Elihu's speeches to Job and found that, although he was a lot more accurate in what he had to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42. Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be vile, an...
HEAR, I BESEECH THEE, AND I WILL SPEAK,.... Not in the manner he had before, complaining of God and justifying himself, but in a way of humble entreaty of favours of him, of confession of sin before h...
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Ver. 4. _Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak_] We have had his confession; follow now his petition here, hi...
_Hear, I beseech thee_ Hear and accept my humble and penitent confession. _I will demand of thee_ Hebrew, אשׁאלךְ, _eshaleka, interrogabo te, I will inquire, ask_, or _make my petition to thee._ I wil...
Hear, I beseech Thee, and I will speak, for Job was ready now to make the right answer; I WILL DEMAND OF THEE, AND DECLARE THOU UNTO ME, he was ready humbly to ask and to receive instruction....
JOB'S HUMBLE CONFESSION....
JOBS REPENTANCE AND PRAYER (vv.1-9) Who would not be totally subdued after hearing God speak such things as He did to Job? What a change took place in Job's attitude and in his words! He was humbled...
1-6 Job was now sensible of his guilt; he would no longer speak in his own excuse; he abhorred himself as a sinner in heart and life, especially for murmuring against God, and took shame to himself....
Job 42:4 Listen H8085 (H8798) speak H1696 (H8762) question H7592 (H8799) answer H3045 (H8685) Hear - PtC...
CONTENTS: Job's self-judgment, followed by new prosperity. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz, three friends. CONCLUSION: Righteousness in a man is excellent but when one becomes too much aware of their...
Job 42:5. _But now mine eye seeth thee._ I have seen thee in thy works, and heard the voice of nature. I have heard all those speeches of my friends, circumscribed in knowledge, and erroneous in judgm...
_Then Job answered the Lord, and said._ JOB’S CONFESSION AND RESTORATION I. Job’s acknowledgment of God’s greatness. Throughout his speeches Job had frequently asserted the majesty of God. But now h...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 42:1 In response to the Lord’s rebuke, Job confesses that the Lord’s power and purposes will not fail, and that he has spoken of things beyond his knowledge. ⇐...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 42:3 In each of these verses, Job quotes the Lord’s questions (see Job 38:2; also Job 40:7) before responding to them.
NOTES Job 42:11. “_A piece of money_.” According to Gesenius and others, קשׂיִטָה (_kesitah_), from the unused root קָשַׂט = قَسَطٰ (_kasata_) to “be just or true;” whence قسْط (_Kistoon_) “balances;”...
SECTION VII.—HISTORICAL SEQUEL TO THE DIALOG EXPOSITION JOB 42:1 This concluding chapter divides into two parts. In the first part (Job 42:1) Job makes his final subm
Then Job answered the LORD, and said, I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from thee (Job 42:1-2). Pretty important: "I know God can do everything." Secondly, "I kno...
Genesis 18:27; Genesis 18:30; Job 38:3; Job 40:7...
GOD SPEAKS TO JOB Job 38:1 _to Job 42:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed on those lines....
Hear — Hear and accept my humble confession. Enquire — I will no more dispute the matter with thee, but beg information from thee. The words which God had uttered to Job by way of challenge, Job retur...