Job 40:7-17

7 Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

8 Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

9 Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

10 Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:

11 Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low.

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.

17 His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together.

Job 40:7-17 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.