Verse Job 40:8. Wilt thou condemn me] Rather than submit to be thought in the wrong, wilt thou condemn MY conduct, in order to justify thyself? Some men will never acknowledge themselves in the wrong. "God may err, but we cannot," seems to be their impious maxim. Unwillingness to acknowledge a fault frequently leads men, directly or indirectly, to this sort of blasphemy. There are three words most difficult to be pronounced in all languages,-I AM WRONG.
WILT THOU DISANNUL MY JUDGMENT? - Wilt thou “reverse” the judgment which I have formed, and show that it should have been different from what it is? This was implied in what Job had undertaken. He had...
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 verse reads, Wilt thou even disannul my right? Wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be righteous? To disannul Jehovah's "right" does not seem to mean, to depose Him from His place as Supreme,...
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...
C. NOW UNDERSTANDING (Job 40:6 to Job 41:34) 1. Job is not qualified to answer. (Job 40:6-14) TEXT 40:6-14 6 Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, 7 Gird up thy loins now like a...
_WILT THOU ALSO DISANNUL MY JUDGMENT? WILT THOU CONDEMN ME, THAT THOU MAYEST BE RIGHTEOUS?_ Wilt thou not only contend with, but set aside my judgment, or justice in the government of the world. CO...
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...
DISANNUL MY JUDGMENT] deny my righteousness....
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...
God pointed out Job’s main error. Job imagined that God was unfair. Job said that he himself was right, rather than God. So Elihu’s opinion about Job was correct (Job 32:2)....
WILT THOU ALSO DISANNUL MY JUDGMENT? — Comp. what Job said in Job 19:6; Job 27:2. God is about to show Job his inability to govern the world and administer judgment among men, so as to rule them moral...
הַ֭ אַף תָּפֵ֣ר מִשְׁפָּטִ֑י תַּ֝רְשִׁיעֵ֗נִי לְמַ֣עַן...
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...
Wilt thou also disannul (a) my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? (a) Signifying that they who justify themselves condemn God as unjust....
_Pit, or grave. Cause the earth to swallow them up, and I will confess thy power. (Calmet)_...
(6) В¶ Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, (7) Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. (8) Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? w...
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...
WILT THOU ALSO DISANNUL MY JUDGMENT?.... The decrees and purposes of God concerning his dealings with men, particularly the afflictions of them, which are framed with the highest wisdom and reason, an...
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? Ver. 8. _Wilt thou also disannul my judgment?_] Dost thou think to ruin my justice to establish thine own inn...
_Wilt thou also disannul my judgment?_ Wilt thou take exceptions to what I say and do, and not only call in question and dispute, but even censure, condemn, and endeavour to make void, _my judgment?_...
Wilt thou also disannul My judgment, altogether abolishing and setting aside God's right? WILT THOU CONDEMN ME, boldly stating that God was unjust, THAT THOU MAYEST BE RIGHTEOUS? For that is what Job'...
The Lord Rebukes Job's Presumption....
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...
"WILL YOU REALLY ANNUL MY JUDGMENT?" Because of what he felt was an unfair affliction, Job had accused God of injustice. "WILL YOU CONDEMN ME THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED?" "Job had let his defense of hi...
6-14 Those who profit by what they have heard from God, shall hear more from him. And those who are truly convinced of sin, yet need to be more thoroughly convinced and more humbled. No doubt God, an...
Every word is emphatical, WILT (art thou resolved upon it) THOU (thou, Job, whom I took to be one of a better mind and temper; had it been a stranger or my enemy who had spoken thus of me, I could hav...
Job 40:8 annul H6565 (H8686) judgment H4941 condemn H7561 (H8686) justified H6663 (H8799) Wilt -...
Job 40:8 I. Every excuse for sin condemns God. This will be apparent if we consider (1) that nothing can be sin for which there is a justifiable excuse. (2) If God condemns that for which there is a g...
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;...
_Wilt thou also disannul My judgment?_ Wilt thou condemn Me, that thou mayest be righteous? THE EXCUSES OF SINNERS CONDEMN GOD I. Every excuse for sin condemns God. 1. Nothing can be sin for which...
_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...
Galatians 3:15; Galatians 3:17; Hebrews 7:18; Isaiah 14:27; Isaiah
Wilt thou — Every word is emphatical, wilt (art thou resolved upon it) thou (thou Job, whom I took to be one of a better mind) also (not only vindicate thyself, but also accuse me) disannul (not only...