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Job
Chapter
40
{Closing
Dialog between God and Job}
{Verses
1-2: God's Opening Statement}
1-2~~Jehovah/God
said to Job 2~~
"Will
the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him?
Let him who accuses God/'Elowahh answer me."
{Note: All the illustrations in the previous two Chapters was to bring Job to this point. This is the summary question.}
{Verses
3-5: Job's Humble Response}
3-4``Then
Job said in reply to Jehovah/God, 4``
"See,
I am of small worth . . .
what can I answer You?
I
clap my hand to my mouth
{idiom meaning he has nothing to say to this - God is right and Job
knows it}.
5`` I have spoken once, and I will not reply . . .
twice {I spoke} . . . and will do so no more.
{Verses
6 through Chapter 41: God's Illustration - From the Storm}
6-7~~Jehovah/God
spoke to Job out of the storm, and said, 7~~
"Brace yourself like a man.
I will question you and you shall answer me.
8~~Would you discredit my justice?
Would you condemn Me . . . to justify yourself?
9~~Do you have an arm like God's/'El's?
And your voice thunder like His?
10~~Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor
and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.
11~~Unleash the fury of your wrath.
Look at every proud man and bring him low.
12~~Look
at every proud man and humble him
{note that the sin God addresses is the great sin of arrogance - the
worst of all sins!}.
Crush the wicked where they stand.
13~~Bury them all in the dust together.
Shroud their faces in the grave.
14~~Then I Myself {God} will admit to you
that your own right hand can save you {sarcasm}.
{Note: There is absolutely no way that Job can control the universe!}
{Verses
15-24: The One Who Created the Behemoth/Hippo Is Not Subject to the
Judgment of Man}
15``Behold
now the hippopotamus/Behemoth . . .
which I made along with you.
He eats grass like the cattle.
16``His strength is in his loins.
His might is in the muscles of his belly.
17``He makes his tail stand up like a cedar.
The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
18``His bones are like tubes of bronze.
His limbs are like bars of iron.
19~~He ranks first among the works/Ways of God/'El . . .
yet His maker can approach him in spite of his gigantic teeth.
20``The mountains yield him produce . . .
where all the beasts of the field play.
21``He lies down beneath the lotuses . . .
in the cover of the swamp reeds.
22``The shady trees/lotuses embower him with shade . . .
the willows of the brook surround him.
23``He can restrain the river from its rushing . . .
He is confident the stream/Jordan will gush at his command.
24``Can he be taken by his eyes?"
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