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HEAR, I BESEECH THEE, AND I WILL SPEAK - This is the language of
humble, docile submission. On former occasions he had spoken
confidently and boldly of God; he had called in question the equity of
his...
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VI. THE CONFESSION OF JOB
CHAPTER 42:1-6
Critics claim that Job's answer is misplaced and that it really ought
to be put in connection with chapter 41:3-5. This is another evidence
of the lack of spi...
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Job's final speech (continuation of Job 40:3).
Job 42:1 is to be removed as a gloss: as are also Job 42:3 a, Job 42:4
b, which are quoted from...
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HEAR. Hear, now.
I WILL DEMAND OF THEE. Supply the _Ellipsis_ (App-6): "[Thou saidst];.
Let him answer Me' "(See Job 40:2)....
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Job 42:1-6. Job's reply to the Lord's Second Address from the Storm
The Lord's words make Job feel more deeply than before that greatness
which belongs to God alone, and with deep compunction he retr...
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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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_hear, I beseech thee_ Or, _hear now_, and I will speak. The words are
not an entreaty on the part of Job that the Almighty would further
instruct him; they are a repetition of the words of the Lord ...
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D. MAN IN GOD'S IMAGE VS. GOD IN MAN'S IMAGE (Job 42:1-6)
TEXT 42:1-6
42 THEN JOB ANSWERED JEHOVAH AND SAID,
2 I know that thou canst do all things,
And that no purpose of thine can be restrained....
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_HEAR, I BESEECH THEE, AND I WILL SPEAK: I WILL DEMAND OF THEE, AND
DECLARE THOU UNTO ME._
When I said, "Hear ... and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and
declare thou unto me" (Job 13:22); my dem...
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42:4 me. (a-16) See ch. 38.2,3...
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JOB'S FINAL WITHDRAWAL
Job at last has learned his lesson. The convincing evidences of
wisdom, power, and love which God has offered him, have led him to lay
aside his pride of intellect and pride of...
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Again he repeats God's words in Job 38:3 and Job 40:7.
5, 6. Job declares that he now understands God's relations towards man
in a far deeper and truer sense than he had hitherto. At once he
retracts...
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Job was a servant of God, even before Job began to suffer. Then, Job
trusted God because other people had told him about God.
When God spoke, Job had a new experience. Job learned many things from
Go...
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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 42
THE END OF JOB’S TROUBLE...
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HEAR, I BESEECH THEE. — This cannot in like manner be appropriately
assigned to Job, but, as in Job 38:3; Job 40:7, must be referred to
God; then the confession of Job 42:5 comes in very grandly. How...
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RESTORED TO RIGHT RELATIONS WITH GOD
Job 42:1
In complete surrender Job bowed before God, confessing his ignorance
and owning that he had spoken glibly of things which he understood
not. He had retor...
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Job's answer is full of the stateliness of a great submission. As he
speaks the words of surrender he appears mightier in his submission
than all the things into the presence of which he has been brou...
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Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, (d) and
declare thou unto me.
(d) He shows that he will be God's scholar to learn of him....
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(1) В¶ Then Job answered the LORD, and said, (2) I know that thou
canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
(3) Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore h...
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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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HEAR, I BESEECH THEE, AND I WILL SPEAK,.... Not in the manner he had
before, complaining of God and justifying himself, but in a way of
humble entreaty of favours of him, of confession of sin before h...
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Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and
declare thou unto me.
Ver. 4. _Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak_] We have had his
confession; follow now his petition here, hi...
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_Hear, I beseech thee_ Hear and accept my humble and penitent
confession. _I will demand of thee_ Hebrew, אשׁאלךְ, _eshaleka,
interrogabo te, I will inquire, ask_, or _make my petition to thee._ I
wil...
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JOB'S HUMBLE CONFESSION....
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Hear, I beseech Thee, and I will speak, for Job was ready now to make
the right answer; I WILL DEMAND OF THEE, AND DECLARE THOU UNTO ME, he
was ready humbly to ask and to receive instruction....
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JOBS REPENTANCE AND PRAYER
(vv.1-9)
Who would not be totally subdued after hearing God speak such things
as He did to Job? What a change took place in Job's attitude and in
his words! He was humbled...
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1-6 Job was now sensible of his guilt; he would no longer speak in
his own excuse; he abhorred himself as a sinner in heart and life,
especially for murmuring against God, and took shame to himself....
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Hear and accept my humble and penitent confession and recantation. I
WILL DEMAND OF THEE; or, and _inquire_, to wit, counsel or
instruction, as a scholar doth of his master, as the following words
not...
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Job 42:4 Listen H8085 (H8798) speak H1696 (H8762) question H7592
(H8799) answer H3045 (H8685)
Hear - PtC...
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CONTENTS: Job's self-judgment, followed by new prosperity.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz, three friends.
CONCLUSION: Righteousness in a man is excellent but when one becomes
too much aware of their...
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Job 42:5. _But now mine eye seeth thee._ I have seen thee in thy
works, and heard the voice of nature. I have heard all those speeches
of my friends, circumscribed in knowledge, and erroneous in judgm...
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_Then Job answered the Lord, and said._
JOB’S CONFESSION AND RESTORATION
I. Job’s acknowledgment of God’s greatness. Throughout his
speeches Job had frequently asserted the majesty of God. But now h...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 42:1 In response to the Lord’s rebuke, Job
confesses that the Lord’s power and purposes will not fail, and that
he has spoken of things beyond his knowledge.
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 42:3 In each of these verses, Job quotes the
Lord’s questions (see Job 38:2; also Job 40:7) before responding to
them.
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NOTES
Job 42:11. “_A piece of money_.” According to Gesenius and others,
קשׂיִטָה (_kesitah_), from the unused root קָשַׂט =
قَسَطٰ (_kasata_) to “be just or true;” whence قسْط
(_Kistoon_) “balances;”...
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SECTION VII.—HISTORICAL SEQUEL TO THE DIALOG
EXPOSITION
JOB 42:1
This concluding chapter divides into two parts. In the first part (Job
42:1) Job makes his final subm
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Then Job answered the LORD, and said, I know that you can do
everything, and that no thought can be withheld from thee (Job
42:1-2).
Pretty important: "I know God can do everything." Secondly, "I kno...
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Genesis 18:27; Genesis 18:30; Job 38:3; Job 40:7...
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GOD SPEAKS TO JOB
Job 38:1 _to Job 42:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of
redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed on those
lines....
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Hear — Hear and accept my humble confession. Enquire — I will no
more dispute the matter with thee, but beg information from thee. The
words which God had uttered to Job by way of challenge, Job retur...