“ Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said, ”
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 argumen...
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 40:3-5 cont...
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said, Moreover the Lord answered - That is, the Lord continued his discourse with Job. Answered does not refer to any thing said by Job, or any question asked. I t...
Job humbleth himself before God; who further challengeth him by a display of the works of his power. A description of the Behemoth. Before Christ 1645. Job 40:1 . Moreover the Lord answe...
Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said, Job 40:1-24 . 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.
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 make...
“Hast Thou an Arm like God?” Job 40:1-24 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 o...
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 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 ca...
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 littl...
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 pea...
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, ast...
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). Therefor...
Job's Humble Submission. B. C. 1520. 1 Moreover the L ORD answered Job, and said, 2 S...
JOB CHAPTER 40 God's reproof of Job, Job 40:1,2 . He humbleth himself, Job 40:3-5 . God again declareth his righteousness, majesty, and the power of his wrath to abase the proud, Job 40:6-1...
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 t...
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 opi...
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 majest...
EXPOSITION Job 40:1-18 Between the first and the second part of the Divine discourse, at the end of which Job wholly humbles himself ( Job 42:1-18 ), is interposed a short appeal on the par...
Moreover, since Job was still silent, the Lord answered Job and said,
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 m...