Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 40:5
Answer — Speak again; I will contend no more with thee. Twice — Often, the definite number being used indefinitely.
Answer — Speak again; I will contend no more with thee. Twice — Often, the definite number being used indefinitely.
Verse Job 40:5. _ONCE HAVE I SPOKEN_] See on Job 42:3, c. _I WILL PROCEED NO FARTHER._] I shall attempt to justify myself no longer I have spoken repeatedly; and am confounded at my want of respect...
ONCE HAVE I SPOKEN - That is, in vindicating myself. He had once spoken of God in an irreverent and improper manner, and he now saw it. BUT I WILL NOT ANSWER - I will not now answer, as I had express...
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:
DIVINE IRONY. The passage opens with a challenge to Job (Job 40:2) in which God drives home the lesson of the previous speech. Job 40:1 is wanting in LXX and is a gloss. Job 40:3 contains Job's reply...
ONCE... TWICE. Hebrew idiom (App-6) for doing. thing repeatedly. Compare Psalms 62:11. BUT. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, omit "but"....
Job 40:1-5. Effect of the Divine Speech on Job As if the purpose of the preceding survey of Creation might be lost in the brilliancy of the individual parts of it, the Divine Speaker gathers up its g...
Job's answer: he will no more contend; he is silent before God....
_I will proceed no further_ Or, BUT I WILL NOT AGAIN. The words "once", "twice", that is, sundry times, refer to what Job had often said in his speeches concerning the Almighty. The purpose of making...
B. JOB LEARNS OF HIS LIMITATIONS. (Job 40:3-5) TEXT 40:3-5 3 Then Job answered Jehovah, and said, 4 Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth. 5 Once hav...
_ONCE HAVE I SPOKEN; BUT I WILL NOT ANSWER: YEA, TWICE; BUT I WILL PROCEED NO FURTHER._ Once ... twice - oftentimes, more than once (Job 33:14, cf. with 29, margin; Psalms 62:11), "I have spoken''-na...
A short dialogue between the Almighty and Job, ending in the latter's confession and submission....
Job spoke to his friends as if he knew everything. He had thought carefully about his troubles. So he was confident that his speeches were right. And he was sure that he was wise. But then God spoke....
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...
אַחַ֣ת דִּ֭בַּרְתִּי וְ לֹ֣א אֶֽעֱנֶ֑ה וּ֝ שׁ
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...
(3) Then Job answered the LORD, and said, (4) Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. (5) Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will pro...
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...
ONCE HAVE I SPOKEN; BUT I WILL NOT ANSWER,.... Some think this refers to what he had just now said of his vileness, he had owned that, and that was all he had to say, or would say, he would give no ot...
Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further. Ver. 5. _Once have I spoken, but I will not answer_] It is enough of that once: the saints, running out, and meet...
_Then Job answered_ Job, whose confusion had made him silent, at length answered with great humility, and said, _Behold I am vile_ I am a mean, sinful, and wretched creature, and not worthy to speak u...
Once have I spoken, in making his challenge against God; BUT I WILL NOT ANSWER, not making another attempt to censure the Lord; YEA, TWICE, referring to his repeated charges; BUT I WILL PROCEED NO FUR...
JOB RETRACTS HIS CHARGES...
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...
"I WILL ADD NO MORE": Jackson notes that silence is not trust, Job still has. way to go, and the Lord is not through with him yet. Some see this as silence, but not true repentance yet. "He was only a...
1-5 Communion with the Lord effectually convinces and humbles a saint, and makes him glad to part with his most beloved sins. There is need to be thoroughly convinced and humbled, to prepare us for r...
I WILL NOT ANSWER, or _speak again_; answering being oft put for speaking. I will contend no more with thee. YEA, TWICE, i.e. ofttimes, or again and again, the definite number being used indefinitely....
Job 40:5 Once H259 spoken H1696 (H8765) answer H6030 (H8799) twice H8147 further H3254 (H8686) but I will not
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 40:3 In response to the Lord’s questions, Job puts his HAND over his MOUTH, just as princes had previously done in Job’s presence (see...
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...
2 Kings 6:10; Jeremiah 31:18; Jeremiah 31:19; Job 33:14; Job 34:31;...