“ Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret. ”
Hide them in the dust together; - compare Isaiah 2:10 . The meaning seems to be, that God had power to prostrate the wicked in the dust of the earth, and he calls upon Job to show his power by d...
Hide them in the dust together; [and] bind (c) their faces in secret. (c) Cause them to die if you can.
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...
Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret. Hide them in the dust together - Blend the high and the low, the rich and the poor, in one common ruin. Show them that thou art supre...
And bind their faces in secret— Shut up their faces in the secret place. Heath. Overwhelm their faces with darkness.
Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret. ( Isaiah 2:10 .) Abase and remove them out of the sight of men. Bind ... faces - i:e., shut up their persons (Maurer). But i...
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...
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...
(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?...
Hide them in the dust together ,.... Either in the dust of death, that they may be seen no more in this world, in the same place and circumstances where they showed their pride and haughtiness; or i...
Hide them in the dust together; [and] bind their faces in secret. Ver. 13. Hide them in the dust together ] Make a hand of them all at once, as God can do his enemies, by raking them all into the...
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...
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...
Divine Justice and Power; God's Dominion over the Proud. B. C. 1520. 6 Then answered t...
Kill every one of them (as he said, Job 40:12 ) at one blow, as I can do, and bring them all to their graves, that they may sleep in the dust, and never offend thee nor trouble others more. Bin...
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...
The Lord Rebukes Job's Presumption.
Esther 7:8 ; Isaiah 2:10 ; Job 14:13 ; Job 36:13 ; John 11:44 ; Psalms 49:14
Hide — Kill every one of them at one blow. Bind — Condemn or destroy them. He alludes to the manner of covering the faces of condemned persons, and of dead men. In secret — In a secret place, bury...