“ Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? ”
Hast thou an arm like God? - The arm is the symbol of strength. The question here is, whether Job would venture to compare his strength with the omnipotence of God? Or canst thou thunder with...
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...
an arm. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. GOD. Hebrew El. App-4.
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Hast thou an arm like God? - Every word, from this to the end of Job 40:14 , has a wonderful tendency to humble the soul; and...
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Arm - God's omnipotence ( Isaiah 53:1 ). Thunder - God's voice ( Job 37:4 ). 10. See, hast thou power and majesty li...
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?...
Hast thou an arm like God ?.... Such power as he has, which is infinite, almighty, and uncontrollable, and therefore there is no contending with him; as he has an arm on which good men may lean on a...
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Ver. 9. Hast thou an arm like God? ] That thou shouldest wrestle a fall with him, and hope to overmatch him? "Thou hast a mi...
Hast thou an arm like God? Hast thou, a poor, weak worm of the earth, an arm comparable to his, who upholdeth all things? The power of creatures, even of angels themselves, is derived from God, lim...
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...
Thou art infinitely short of God in power, and therefore in justice; for all his perfections are equal and infinite. Injustice is much more likely to be in thee, an impotent creature, than in the Alm...
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.
1 Corinthians 10:22 ; Exodus 15:6 ; Isaiah 45:9 ; Job 23:6 ; Job 33:12 ; Job 33:13 ; Job 37:4 ; Job 37:5 ; Job 9:4 ; Psalms 39:3-9 ; Psalms 89:10 ; Psalms 89:13