Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 40:19
The chief — He is one of the chief of God's works, in regard of its great bulk and strength.
The chief — He is one of the chief of God's works, in regard of its great bulk and strength.
Verse Job 40:19. _HE_ IS _THE CHIEF OF THE WAYS OF GOD_] The _largest,_ _strongest_, and _swiftest_ quadruped that God has formed. _HE THAT MADE HIM_] No power of _man_ or _beast_ can overcome him. G...
HE IS THE CHIEF OF THE WAYS OF GOD - In size and strength. The word rendered “chief” is used in a similar sense in Numbers 24:20, “Amalek was the first of the nations;” that is, one of the most powerf...
CHAPTER 40 _ 1. The answer demanded (Job 40:1)_ 2. Job's answer (Job 40:3) 3. Jehovah's appeal to Job (Job 40:6) 4. Behold behemoth! (Job 40:
JOB 40:15 TO JOB 41:34. BEHEMOTH AND LEVIATHAN. Most scholars regard this passage as a later addition to the poem. The point of Job 40:8 is God's reply to Job's criticism of His righteousness; the des...
These verses are connected, 19. He is the chief of the ways of God; He that made him provideth him with his sword; 20. For the mountains, &c. By "chief," lit. _beginning_, is meant the first in ma...
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...
HE THAT MADE HIM CAN MAKE HIS SWORD TO APPROACH UNTO HIM— _He who made him, hath furnished him with his scythe._ Heath. The Hebrew word here rendered _sword,_ or _scythe,_ denotes the instrument by wh...
2. Jehovah relates more marvels of his creation. (Job 40:15, Job 41:34) TEXT 40:15-24 15 BEHOLD NOW, BEHEMOTH, WHICH I MADE AS WELL AS THEE; He eateth grass as an ox. 16 Lo now, his strength is in...
_BEHOLD NOW BEHEMOTH, WHICH I MADE WITH THEE; HE EATETH GRASS AS AN OX._ God shows that if Job cannot bring under control the lower animals, of which he selects the two most striking (Behemoth on lan...
THE SECOND SPEECH OF THE ALMIGHTY Job, we know, in his anxiety to prove his integrity had been led into casting doubts on the justice of God's government of the world. He is here ironically invited t...
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 40 GOD CONTINUES HIS SPEECH...
In fact, Bible students are not sure about the animal in this passage. In the original language (called Hebrew), the animal’s name simply means ‘a great animal’. But the hippo behaves as God describes...
HE IS THE CHIEF OF THE WAYS OF GOD. — This is surely more applicable to the elephant than the hippopotamus, considering the great intelligence and usefulness of the elephant. The last clause is very o...
ה֖וּא רֵאשִׁ֣ית דַּרְכֵי ־אֵ֑ל הָ֝ עֹשֹׂו יַג
XXVIII. THE RECONCILIATION Job 38:1 - Job 42:6 THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job makes submis...
“HAST THOU AN ARM LIKE GOD?” Job 40:1 God seemed to await Job's reply to His questions. Job had protested that he would fill his mouth with arguments, but none was forthcoming. That vision of God had...
There is a pause in the unveiling as Jehovah speaks directly to His servant and asks for an answer to the things that He has said. The answer is full of suggestiveness. The man who in mighty speech an...
(h) He [is] the chief of the ways of God: (i) he that made him can make his sword to approach [unto him]. (h) He is one of the chief works of God among the beasts. (i) Though man dare not come near...
Stakes. Serpents attack the eyes of the elephant, and sometimes drag it by the trunk into the deep, where it is drowned. (Pliny viii. 12.; Solin xxxviii.) --- Others read with an interrogation: "Shall...
(15) В¶ Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. (16) Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. (17) He moveth his tail like a ced...
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...
HE [IS] THE CHIEF OF THE WAYS OF GOD,.... Or the beginning of them, that is, of the works of God in creation; which must be restrained to animals, otherwise there were works wrought before any of them...
He [is] the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach [unto him]. Ver. 19. _He is the chief of the ways of God_] _i.e._ The masterpiece among all the beasts (and perha...
_His bones_ Under which title are comprehended his ribs, (as the LXX. here render it,) and his teeth; _are as strong pieces of brass_ Exceeding hard and strong. Such they are both in the elephant and...
He is the chief of the ways of God, the firstling of God's almighty power, among the mightiest of His creatures; HE THAT MADE HIM CAN MAKE HIS SWORD TO APPROACH UNTO HIM, literally, his Maker furnishe...
Job's Weakness Contrasted with the Strength Even of the Hippopotamus...
GOD'S CHALLENGE AND JOB'S RESPONSE (vv.1-5) Job had said that if God would only listen to him, he would present his whole case in showing how God was unfair in His dealings (ch.33:3-5). Therefore n...
"HE IS THE FIRST IN THE WAYS OF GOD": Not the first animal created, but the first in size the strength. Again, hippos and elephants are impressive (some hippos weigh up to 6000 pounds), yet but dinosa...
15-24 God, for the further proving of his own power, describes two vast animals, far exceeding man in bulk and strength. Behemoth signifies beasts. Most understand it of an animal well known in Egypt...
OF THE WAYS OF GOD, i.e. of God's works, to wit, of that sort, or among living and brute creatures. This is eminently and unquestionably true of the elephant, in regard of his vast bulk and strength,...
Job 40:19 first H7225 ways H1870 God H410 made H6213 (H8802) near H5066 (H8686) sword H2719 the chief -...
CONTENTS: God's challenge to Job continued. Job's answer. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: A real vision of God's power and wisdom changes men's opinions of themselves and silences their disputes w...
Job 40:4. _Behold, I am vile._ Job boldly answered his friends; but when the Lord speaks, he lays his mouth in the dust. Job 40:15. _Behold now behemoth._ Here sacred criticism is divided in opinion;...
_Moreover, the Lord answered Job, and said._ JEHOVAH’S ANSWER Its language has reached, at times, the “high-water mark” of poetry and beauty. Nothing can exceed its dignity, its force, its majesty, t...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 40:6 Job knew what it was like to be misunderstood and misjudged by his friends. The Lord now shows Job how he had misjudged the Lord’s rule over the world (Job 40:6). Job had displaye...
NOTES Job 40:15. “_Behold turn behemoth_.” Various opinions as to what is meant by the term “behemoth.” According to GESENIUS, בְּהֵמוֹת (_behemoth_) is the plural of בְּהֵמָה (_behemah_, from the unu...
EXPOSITION JOB 40:1 Between the first and the second part of the Divine discourse, at the end of which Job wholly humbles himself (Job 42:1), is interposed a short appeal on the part of tile Almighty...
Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said, Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? (Job 40:1-2) "Job, are you trying to instruct me?" Isn't that ridiculous? Can you think of anybody tryi...
Isaiah 27:1; Job 26:13; Psalms 104:24; Psalms 7:12...