Job 40:5-15

5 Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour.

6 And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.

7 Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.

8 And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.

9 will I confess that thy right hand can save .

10 But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.

11 Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

12 He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.

13 His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is cast iron.

14 This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.

15 And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.

Job 40:5-15 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.