Job 40:7-14

7 ¹"Dress for action^[a] like a man; ²I will question you, and you make it known to me.

8 Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that ³you may be in the right?

9 Have you ⁴an arm like God, and can you thunder with ⁵a voice like his?

10 "Adorn yourself with majesty and dignity; ⁶clothe yourself with glory and splendor.

11 Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is ⁷proud and abase him.

12 Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and ⁸tread down the wicked ⁹where they stand.

13 ¹⁰Hide them all in ¹¹the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.^[b]

14 Then will I also acknowledge to you that your own ¹²right hand can save you.

Job 40:7-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 40

In this chapter Job is called upon to give in his answer, Job 40:1,2, which he does in the most humble manner, acknowledging his vileness and folly, Job 40:3-5; and then the Lord proceeds to give him further conviction of his superior justice and power, Job 40:6-9; and one thing he proposes to him, to humble the proud, if he could, and then he would own his own right hand could save him, Job 40:10-15; and observes to him another instance of his power in a creature called behemoth, which he had made, and gives a description of, Job 40:15-24.

Cross References

• 1. Job 38:3
• 2. Job 38:3; Job 42:4
• 3. See Job 32:2
• 4. Psalms 89:13; Isaiah 63:12
• 5. See Job 37:4
• 6. [Psalms 93:1; Psalms 104:1]
• 7. [Daniel 4:37]; See Isaiah 2:11-17
• 8. Isaiah 63:3
• 9. [Job 36:20]
• 10. Isaiah 2:10
• 11. Job 21:26
• 12. Psalms 98:1; Isaiah 59:16; Isaiah 63:5

Footnotes

• [a] Hebrew Gird up your loins
• [b] Hebrew in the hidden place