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AND TREAD DOWN THE WICKED IN THEIR PLACE - Even in the very place
where they are, crush them to the dust, as God can. It is implied that
God was able to do this, and he appeals to it as a proof of his...
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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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WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44.
BEHEMOTH: probably the hippopotamus (Greek for river-horse)....
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_in their place_ That is, where they stand; suddenly and on the spot,
comp. ch. Job 34:26....
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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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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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_LOOK ON EVERY ONE THAT IS PROUD, AND BRING HIM LOW; AND TREAD DOWN
THE WICKED IN THEIR PLACE._
Proud - high (Daniel 4:37, "Those that walk in pride He is able to
abase").
IN THEIR PLACE - on the sp...
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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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רְאֵ֣ה כָל ־גֵּ֭אֶה הַכְנִיעֵ֑הוּ וַ
הֲדֹ֖ךְ...
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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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_Tail, which is very small, and without hair. (Calmet) --- Vavassor
rather thinks "the trunk" is meant. (Du Hamel)_...
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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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LOOK ON EVERYONE [THAT IS] PROUD, [AND] BRING HIM LOW,.... As the Lord
often does; see Isaiah 2:11; this is the same as before;
AND TREAD DOWN THE WICKED IN THEIR PLACE; the same with the proud, for...
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Look on every one [that is] proud, [and] bring him low; and tread down
the wicked in their place.
Ver. 12. _Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low_] This
God doeth, Isaiah 2:11,12; Isaiah...
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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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Look on everyone that is proud and bring him low, as God can by a mere
angry glance destroy the wicked; AND TREAD DOWN THE WICKED IN THEIR
PLACE, overthrowing them and annihilating their power....
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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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Either,
1. Wheresoever they are. Or,
2. Where they are in their greatest strength and glory, and therefore
are most secure and confident. Or,
3. Forthwith, upon the spot, that the quickness and imm...
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Job 40:12 Look H7200 (H8798) proud H1343 low H3665 (H8685) down H1915
(H8798) wicked H7563
tread -...
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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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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...