Job Chapter 40
From The Open Bible Project
40:1 Moreover Yahweh answered Job,
40:2 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
- (q) Is this the way for a man that will learn, to strive with God? which he reproves in Job.
40:3 Then Job answered Yahweh,
40:4 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
- (r) By which he shows that he repented and desired pardon for his faults.
40:5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."
40:6 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
40:7 "Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.
40:8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
- (a) Signifying that they who justify themselves condemn God as unjust.
40:9 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
40:10 "Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.
- (b) Meaning, that these were proper to God, and belonged to no man.
40:11 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
40:12 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
40:13 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.
- (c) Cause them to die if you can.
40:14 Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.
- (d) Proving by this that whoever attributes to himself power and ability to save himself, makes himself God.
40:15 "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.
- (e) This beast is thought to be the elephant, or some other, which is unknown.
- (f) Whom I made as well as you.
- (g) This commends the providence of God toward man: for if he were given to devour as a lion, nothing would be able to resist him, or content him.
40:16 Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.
40:17 He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
40:18 His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.
40:19 He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.
- (h) He is one of the chief works of God among the beasts.
- (i) Though man dare not come near him, yet God can kill him.
40:20 Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.
40:21 He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.
40:22 The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.
40:23 Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.
- (k) He drinks at leisure, and fears nobody.
40:24 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?
