Job humbleth himself before God; who further challengeth him by a display of the works of his power. A description of the Behemoth.
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Job 40:1. Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said— Houbigant subjoins the first five verses of this chapter to the 39th, after the Hebrew, and many of the versions. See the Polyglot.
CHAPTER XL _Job humbles himself before the Lord_, 1-5. _And God again challenges him by a display of his power and_ _judgments_, 6-14. _A description of behemoth_, 15-24. NOTES ON CHAP. XL Vers...
MOREOVER, THE LORD ANSWERED JOB - The word “answered” is used here as it is often in the Scriptures, not to denote a reply to what had been immediately said, but to take up or continue an argument. Wh...
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...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
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...
_answered Job_ That is, took up anew His words and directly appealed to Job....
TEXT 40:1-2 40 MOREOVER JEHOVAH ANSWERED JOB, AND SAID, 2 Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it. COMMENT 40:1, 2 Job 40:1Yahweh calls on J...
_MOREOVER THE LORD ANSWERED JOB, AND SAID,_ Job 40:1. He had paused for a reply, but Job was silent. THE LORD - Hebrew, _ YAHWEH_ (H3068)....
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...
וַ יַּ֖עַן יְהוָ֥ה אֶת ־אִיֹּ֗וב וַ יֹּאמַֽר
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...
(1) В¶ Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said, (2) Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it. This was a very solemn pause in the discourse; a...
CONTENTS The Lord having, in the former chapter, thus answered Job, agreeably to his wish, in the opening of this chapter demands Job's reply. Job most humbly gives it: after which the Lord takes up...
_THE DIVINE ANSWER_ ‘The Lord answered Job.’ Job 40:1 I. AGAIN JEHOVAH PROCEEDS, AND AS AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE LAST, SO NOW HE CHARGES JOB TO ‘GIRD UP’ HIS ‘LOINS LIKE A MAN.’—In each case ther...
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...
MOREOVER THE LORD ANSWERED JOB,.... The Lord having discoursed largely of the works of nature, in order to reconcile the mind of Job to his works of providence, stopped and made a pause for a little s...
Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said, Ver. 1. _Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said_] _Hic verisimile est aliquantisper Deum tacuisse,_ saith Mercer. Here it is likely that God held his peace...
_Moreover the Lord answered Job_ Having first made a little pause to try what Job had to allege in his own defence, or could answer to his questions; and he continuing silent, as being, it seems, asto...
JOB RETRACTS HIS CHARGES...
Moreover, since Job was still silent, THE LORD ANSWERED JOB AND SAID,...
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...
God's first speech that began with. rebuke and. challenge (Job 38:2-3) also concludes with the same....
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...
JOB CHAPTER 40 God's reproof of Job, JOB 40:1,2. He humbleth himself, JOB 40:3. God again declareth his righteousness, majesty, and the power of his wrath to abase the proud, JOB 40:6. A description o...
Job 40:1 LORD H3068 answered H6030 (H8799) Job H347 said H559 (H8799) Job 40:6,...
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 40:1 The Lord asks Job to answer, but the questions of chs. Job 38:1 have helped Job see that some things are beyond the reach of human power or understanding....
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...
Job 38:1; Job 40:6...
Answered — Having made a little pause to try what Job could answer. This is not said to be spoken out of the whirlwind, and therefore some think God said it in a still, small voice, which wrought more...