Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 40:4
Verse Job 40:4. Behold, I am vile] I acknowledge my inward defilement. I cannot answer thee.
I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.] I cannot excuse myself, and I must be dumb before thee.
Verse Job 40:4. Behold, I am vile] I acknowledge my inward defilement. I cannot answer thee.
I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.] I cannot excuse myself, and I must be dumb before thee.
BEHOLD, I AM VILE: WHAT SHALL I ANSWER THEE? - “Instead of being able to argue my cause, and to vindicate myself as I had expected, I now see that I am guilty, and I have nothing to say.” He had argue...
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...
I AM VILE. This is true wisdom. This is "the end of the Lord" (James 5:11), and the "end" of this whole book. WHAT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. LAY MINE HAND, &C. Symbolic of silence and...
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...
_behold, I am vile_ The word _vile_here is not a moral term, it signifies, _mean_, small. The verse may be read, Behold I am too mean; what shall I answer thee? I lay mine hand upon my mouth. Job i...
Job's answer: he will no more contend; he is silent before God....
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...
_BEHOLD, I AM VILE; WHAT SHALL I ANSWER THEE? I WILL LAY MINE HAND UPON MY MOUTH._ I am (too) vile - to reply. It is a very different thing to vindicate ourselves before God from what it is before me...
VILE] RV 'of small account.' Job confesses that in view of these marvellous works of God, it was presumption to think of criticising His actions....
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...
הֵ֣ן קַ֭לֹּתִי מָ֣ה אֲשִׁיבֶ֑ךָּ יָ֝דִ֗י שַׂ֣מְתִּי...
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...
Behold, I am (r) vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. (r) By which he shows that he repented and desired pardon for his faults....
(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...
BEHOLD, I AM VILE,.... Or "light" a; which may have respect either to his words and arguments, which he thought had force in them, but now he saw they had none; or to his works and actions, the integr...
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Ver. 4. _Behold, I am vile_] Light and little worth; and therefore deserve to be slighted and laid by, as a broken ves...
Job 40:2-4. Since Job had undertaken to find fault with God and His dispensations, and to desire an opportunity to dispute with Him, that he might argue the matter of the erroneousness of His dispensa...
_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...
Behold, I am vile, too base to offer a solution of the problems presented; WHAT SHALL I ANSWER THEE? He was unable to present so much as another argument. I WILL LAY MINE HAND UPON MY MOUTH, closing i...
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 LAY MY HAND ON MY MOUTH": Job now does what he suggested that his friends do (Job 21:5)....
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 AM VILE, what am I, a mean and contemptible creature that should presume to contend with my Maker and Judge? I confess my fault and folly. WHAT SHALL I ANSWER THEE? I neither desire nor am able to d...
Job 40:4 vile H7043 (H8804) answer H7725 (H8686) lay H7760 (H8804) hand H3027 over H3926 mouth...
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;...
_Behold, I am vile._ A HUMBLING CONFESSION Self-examination is of unspeakable importance. The most useful knowledge of ourselves is not that which is physical, but that which is moral; not a knowled...
_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...
1 Kings 19:4; 1 Timothy 1:15; 2 Samuel 24:10; Daniel 9:5; Daniel 9:7;...