Job 40:14

14 Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

Job 40:14 Meaning and Commentary

Job 40:14

Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand
can save thee.
] From all his enemies temporal and spiritual, and out of all evils and calamities whatsoever; and that he stood in no need of his help and assistance, yea, that he was a match for him, and might be allowed to contend with him; but whereas he was not able to do the above things proposed to him, it could not be admitted that his own right hand could save him; and therefore ought quietly to submit to the sovereignty of God over him, and to all the dispensations of his providence, and be humbled under his mighty hand, since no hand but his could save him; as no man's right hand can save him from temporal evils and enemies, and much less from spiritual ones, or with an everlasting salvation; nor any works of righteousness done by him, only the arm of the Lord has wrought salvation, and his right hand only supports and saves. Two instances are given in this and the following chapter, the one of a land animal, the other of a sea animal, as is generally supposed; or it may be of amphibious ones, that live both on land and water.

Job 40:14 In-Context

12 Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

13 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

14 Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

15 See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.

16 His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach.