Job 40:1
God's first speech that began with. rebuke and. challenge (Job 38:2-3) also concludes with the same.... [ Continue Reading ]
God's first speech that began with. rebuke and. challenge (Job 38:2-3) also concludes with the same.... [ Continue Reading ]
"WILL THE FAULTFINDER CONTEND WITH THE ALMIGHTY?" The term "faultfinder" is only found here in the Old Testament and means "to admonish and correct". At least twice (Job 10:2; Job 23:6), Job had accused God of contending with him. In addition, Elihu had rebuked Job for complaining against God (Job 3... [ Continue Reading ]
Job had claimed that he would be confident before God (Job 13:22), now he is extremely humble. It is good and healthy to be humbled before God and to realize one's insignificance compared to God. Man is tempted to think of God as an equal, or that man can approach God as. prince (Job 31:37), but Job... [ Continue Reading ]
"I LAY MY HAND ON MY MOUTH": Job now does what he suggested that his friends do (Job 21:5).... [ Continue Reading ]
"I WILL ADD NO MORE": Jackson notes that silence is not trust, Job still has. way to go, and the Lord is not through with him yet. Some see this as silence, but not true repentance yet. "He was only admitting that he need not repeat himself, not that he had said too much. Because Job did not admit t... [ Continue Reading ]
Once again Job is told to brace himself like. man and answer God's questions. Notice that God is not impressed by silence, God deserves some kind of answer.... [ Continue Reading ]
"WILL YOU REALLY ANNUL MY JUDGMENT?" Because of what he felt was an unfair affliction, Job had accused God of injustice. "WILL YOU CONDEMN ME THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED?" "Job had let his defense of his integrity lead him astray, to the extreme of blaming God" _(Zuck p. 176)._ For all practical purpo... [ Continue Reading ]
"OR DO YOU HAVE AN ARM LIKE GOD?" The point here that any moral superiority to God must be accompanied by. similar superiority in power. "To contend with God suggests an assumed equality with God. And yet no mortal possesses that. Job did not have God's strength (His "arm"), or the ability to terrif... [ Continue Reading ]
"The Lord then ironically challenges Job to clothe himself in excellency, dignity, honor, and majesty (the figurative apparel of Deity). What He is saying is this: "Job, since you think you know so much about how the universe ought to be managed, why don't you try being 'God' for. while" _(Jackson p... [ Continue Reading ]
Job's first task of being God for. day is to bring down the proud and the wicked in an unleashed display of his anger, humiliating them just by looking at them. Can Job perform this simple function, which he had accused God of ignoring? (Job 21:29-31; Job 24:1-17). "God ironically suggested He turn... [ Continue Reading ]
The very fact that Job could not perform such an administrative function as judging the wicked, proves that Job cannot save himself. "Only if Job could carry out such an awesome task, would God admit to the complainer's independence and self-sufficiency and the validity of his criticisms" _(Bible Kn... [ Continue Reading ]
"BEHOLD NOW, BEHEMOTH": The word rendered "behemoth" is simply. plural Hebrew word for "beast". Apparently the plural form is meant to emphasize the superlative strength of this beast. "WHICH. MADE AS WELL AS YOU": Thus behemoth is not. mythical creature, but. real animal. Various views concerning w... [ Continue Reading ]
This brute has massive strength in its loins, stomach muscles, thighs, and tail.... [ Continue Reading ]
"HE BENDS HIS TAIL LIKE. CEDAR": Or his tail sways like. cedar. Some argue that his means. cedar branch and not. cedar tree, but that seems to dismiss the power of this animal. What is so impressive about. tail the size of. little branch? To me this appears to rule out such animals as the hippo and... [ Continue Reading ]
"HE IS THE FIRST IN THE WAYS OF GOD": Not the first animal created, but the first in size the strength. Again, hippos and elephants are impressive (some hippos weigh up to 6000 pounds), yet but dinosaurs were far more massive, weighing up to 30 tons. JOB 40:19 "LET HIS MAKER BRING NEAR HIS SWORD":... [ Continue Reading ]
It takes. tremendous amount of vegetation to feed this animal, possibly the allusion to the mountains is that this animal feeds on the large masses of vegetation that float downstream from the mountains, and because he eats only vegetation, the other animals can play safely near him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Behemoth loves to stay in the water.... [ Continue Reading ]
He is so large that. rushing river does not alarm him.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is. brute that cannot be captured, and yet representations of the capture of the hippo are common in Egyptian art.... [ Continue Reading ]