Job 40:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty. ”

• Job 40:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency - That is, such as God has. Put on everything which you can, which would indicate rank, wealth, power, and see whether it could all be compared with t...

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• Job 40:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Deck thyself now [with] (b) majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty. (b) Meaning, that these were proper to God, and belonged to no man.

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• Job 40:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 40:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty. Deck thyself now with majesty - Act like God, seeing thou hast been assuming to thyself perfections that belon...

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• Job 40:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty. No JFB commentary on this verse.

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• Job 40:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 invite...

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• Job 40:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Job 40:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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...

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• Job 40:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 40:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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?...

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• Job 40:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Deck thyself now [with] majesty and excellency ,.... With excellent majesty, as I am decked and clothed, Psalms 93:1 ; and array thyself with glory and beauty ; appear in the most glorious and sp...

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• Job 40:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Deck thyself now [with] majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty. Ver. 10. Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency ] Or, with magnificence and sublimity, &c., i.e....

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• Job 40:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Deck thyself with majesty , &c. Seeing thou makest thyself equal, yea, superior to me, take to thyself thy great power, come and sit in my throne, and display thy divine perfections in the sight...

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• Job 40:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 40:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Divine Justice and Power; God's Dominion over the Proud. B. C. 1520.       6 Then answered t...

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• Job 40:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Seeing thou makest thyself equal, yea, superior to me in justice, and consequently in power and majesty, take to thyself thy great power, come and sit in my throne, and display thy divine perfections...

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• Job 40:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Job 40:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 40:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Job 40:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Job 40:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Lord Rebukes Job's Presumption.

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• Job 40:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 29:11 ; 1 Corinthians 15:54 ; 2 Peter 1:16 ; 2 Peter 1:17 ; Exodus 28:2 ; Isaiah 4:2 ; Isaiah 59:17 ; Job 39:19 ; Jude 1:24 ; Jude 1:25 ; Matthew 6:13 ; Psalms 104:1 ; Psalm...

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• Job 40:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Deck — Seeing thou makest thyself equal, yea, superior to me, take to thyself thy great power, come and sit in my throne, and display thy Divine perfections in the sight of the world.

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