“ Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, ”
Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the whirlwind - See the notes at Job 38:1 . God here resumes the argument which had been interrupted in order to give Job an opportunity to speak and to ca...
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...
Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, The Lord - Yahweh ( H3068 ).
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?...
Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the whirlwind ,.... Some think that the whirlwind ceased while the Lord spake the words in Job 40:2 ; which encouraged Job to make the answer he did; but oth...
Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Ver. 6. Then answered the Lord unto Job out of a whirlwind ] As before, Job 38:1 , notwithstanding Job's submission. See the reason...
Then answered the Lord out of the whirlwind Which was renewed when God renewed his charge upon Job, whom he intended to humble more thoroughly than he had yet done. This and the next verse are repe...
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...
The whirlwind was renewed when God renewed his charge upon Job, whom he intended to humble more thoroughly than yet he had done. Both this and the next verse are repeated out of Job 38:1,3 , whe...
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...
Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the whirlwind, in order to lead him to a still higher stage of humiliation, so that he would willingly bow under the chastening hand of God, and said,
2 Peter 3:10-12 ; Hebrews 12:18-20 ; Job 38:1 ; Psalms 50:3 ; Psalms 50:4
Whirlwind — Which was renewed when God renewed his charge upon Job, whom he intended to humble more throughly.