Job 40
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Job 40
1And the Lord said to Job:
2 #
Job 13.3; 23.4; 31.35; 33.13 “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty?#40.2 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Anyone who argues with God must respond.”
Job’s Response to God
3Then Job answered the Lord:
4 #
Job 29.9; 42.6 “See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you?
I lay my hand on my mouth.
5 #
Job 9.3, 15 I have spoken once, and I will not answer,
twice but will proceed no further.”
God’s Challenge to Job
6 #
Job 38.1
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:
7 #
Job 38.3; 42.4 “Gird up your loins like a man;
I will question you, and you declare to me.
8 #
Isa 14.27; Rom 3.4 Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that you may be justified?
9 #
2 Chr 32.8; Job 37.5 Have you an arm like God,
and can you thunder with a voice like his?
10 #
Ps 93.1; 104.1 “Deck yourself with majesty and dignity;
clothe yourself with glory and splendor.
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Isa 2.12; 42.25; Dan 4.37 Pour out the overflowings of your anger,
and look on all who are proud and humble them.
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1 Sam 2.7; Job 36.20; Isa 13.11; 63.3 Look on all who are proud and bring them low;
tread down the wicked where they stand.
13Hide them all in the dust together;
bind their faces in the world below.#40.13 Heb the hidden place
14 #
Ps 20.6; 60.5; 108.6 Then I will also acknowledge to you
that your own right hand can give you victory.
15 #
v 19
“Look at Behemoth,
which I made just as I made you;
it eats grass like an ox.
16Its strength is in its loins
and its power in the muscles of its belly.
17It makes its tail stiff like a cedar;
the sinews of its thighs are knit together.
18Its bones are tubes of bronze,
its limbs like bars of iron.
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v 15
; Job 41.33“It is the first of the great acts of God;
only its Maker can approach it with the sword.
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Ps 104.26
For the mountains yield food for it
where all the wild animals play.
21Under the lotus plants it lies,
in the covert of the reeds and in the marsh.
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Isa 44.1
The lotus trees cover it for shade;
the willows of the wadi surround it.
23Even if the river is turbulent, it is not frightened;
it is confident though Jordan rushes against its mouth.
24 #
Prov 1.17
Can one take it with hooks#40.24 Cn: Heb in his eyes
or pierce its nose with a snare?
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