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Verse Job 40:13. _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 supreme, and canst do whatsoever thou pleasest.
_BIN...
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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 doing th...
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CHAPTER 40
_ 1. The answer demanded (Job 40:1)_
2. Job's answer (Job 40:3)
3. Jehovah's appeal to Job (Job 40:6)
4. Behold behemoth! (Job 40:
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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 contains Job's reply...
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As Job questions the manner of the Almighty's rule of the world, God
invites him to deck himself with the thunder and majesty of the
supreme ruler, and himself undertake the government of the world; a...
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Job 40:6 to Job 42:6. The Lord's Second Answer to Job out of the Storm
Shall Man charge God with unrighteousness in His Rule of the World?
All that the first speech of the Lord touched upon was the...
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_bind their faces in secret_ lit. _bind up their faces in the hidden
place_, that is, shut them up in the darkness of the prison-house of
Death....
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AND BIND THEIR FACES IN SECRET— _Shut up their faces in the secret
place._ Heath. _Overwhelm their faces with darkness._...
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C. NOW UNDERSTANDING (Job 40:6 to Job 41:34)
1. Job is not qualified to answer. (Job 40:6-14)
TEXT 40:6-14
6 Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
7 Gird up thy loins now like a...
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_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 it refers
r...
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IN SECRET] RV 'in the hidden _place_'; Sheol, the abode of the dead.
40:15-41:34. In this passage the mightiest beast of the earth and the
one most dreaded in the water are portrayed to Job, and he i...
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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 invited t...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 40
GOD CONTINUES HIS SPEECH...
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These verses describe Job’s test (verse 7). The purpose of the test
was to prove that God was greater than Job. And the purpose was to
prove that God was wiser than Job.
Firstly, God reminded Job abo...
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טָמְנֵ֣ם בֶּ † עָפָ֣ר יָ֑חַד
פְּ֝נֵיהֶ֗ם חֲבֹ֣שׁ...
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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
makes submis...
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“HAST THOU AN ARM LIKE GOD?”
Job 40:1
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 of God had...
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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 an...
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Hide them in the dust together; [and] bind (c) their faces in secret.
(c) Cause them to die if you can....
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_Gristle. Hebrew again, "bones." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "back-bone,
like cast iron."_...
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(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? w...
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God Speaks Job Repents
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Last week we covered a lot of territory!
1. We finished with Elihu's speeches to Job and found that, although
he was a lot more accurate in what he had to...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42.
Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He
makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be
vile, an...
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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 in t...
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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 gr...
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_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 of t...
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Hide them in the dust together, so that the earth covers their graves;
AND BIND THEIR FACES IN SECRET, in the darkness and secrecy of death's
realm, with the voice of their presumption and pride forev...
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The Lord Rebukes Job's Presumption....
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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). Therefore n...
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6-14 Those who profit by what they have heard from God, shall hear
more from him. And those who are truly convinced of sin, yet need to
be more thoroughly convinced and more humbled. No doubt God, an...
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Job 40:13 Hide H2934 (H8798) dust H6083 together H3162 Bind H2280
(H8798) faces H6440 hidden H2934 ...
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CONTENTS: God's challenge to Job continued. Job's answer.
CHARACTERS: God, Job.
CONCLUSION: A real vision of God's power and wisdom changes men's
opinions of themselves and silences their disputes w...
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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
opinion;...
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_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
majesty, t...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 40:6 Job knew what it was like to be misunderstood
and misjudged by his friends. The Lord now shows Job how he had
misjudged the Lord’s rule over the world (Job 40:6). Job had
displaye...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 40:13 HIDE THEM... IN THE DUST is a euphemism for
“bury.”
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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 the unu...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 40:1
Between the first and the second part of the Divine discourse, at the
end of which Job wholly humbles himself (Job 42:1), is interposed a
short appeal on the part of tile Almighty...
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Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said, Shall he that contends with
the Almighty instruct him? (Job 40:1-2)
"Job, are you trying to instruct me?" Isn't that ridiculous? Can you
think of anybody tryi...
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Esther 7:8; Isaiah 2:10; Job 14:13; Job 36:13; John 11:44;...
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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 the...