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Selected Verse: Job 40:1 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 40:1 |
Strong Concordance |
Moreover the LORD [03068] answered [06030] Job [0347], and said [0559], |
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King James |
Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said, |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
GOD'S SECOND ADDRESS. (Job 40:1-24)
the Lord--Hebrew, "JEHOVAH." |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Moreover, the Lord answered Job - The word "answered" is used here as it is often in the Scriptures, not to denote a reply to what had been immediately said, but to take up or continue an argument. What God said here was designed as a reply to the spirit which Job had so frequently manifested. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
1 Then Jehovah answered Job, and said:
2 Will now the censurer contend with the Almighty?
Let the instructor of Eloah answer it!
3 Then Job answered Jehovah, and said:
With Job 40:1; Job 38:1 is again taken up, because the speech of Jehovah has now in some measure attained the end which was assigned to it as an answer to Job's outburst of censure. רב is inf. abs., as Jdg 11:25; it is left to the hearer to give to the simple verbal notion its syntactic relation in accordance with the connection; here it stands in the sense of the fut. (comp. Kg2 4:43): num litigabit, Ges. 131, 4, b. The inf. abs. is followed by יסּור as subj., which (after the form שׁכּור) signifies a censurer and fault-finder, moomeetee's. The question means, will Job persist in this contending with God? He who sets God right, as though he knew everything better than He, shall answer the questions put before him. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Answered - Having made a little pause to try what Job could answer. This is not said to be spoken out of the whirlwind, and therefore some think God said it in a still, small voice, which wrought more upon Job, (as upon Elijah) than the whirlwind did. Tho' Job had not spoken any thing, yet God is said to answer him. For he knows mens thoughts, and can return a fit answer to their silence. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Moreover the Lord answered - That is, the Lord continued his discourse with Job. Answered does not refer to any thing said by Job, or any question asked. I think it very likely that this whole piece, from the beginning of this first verse to the end of the fourteenth, was originally the ending of the poem. Mr. Heath has noticed this, and I shall lay his words before the reader: "The former part of this chapter is evidently the conclusion of the poem; the latter part whereof seems to be in great disorder; whether it has happened from the carelessness of the transcriber, or, which appears most probable, from the skins of parchment composing the roll having by some accident changed their places. It is plain from the seventh verse of the forty-second chapter (Job 42:7) that Jehovah is the last speaker in the poem. If, then, immediately after the end of the thirty-ninth chapter, we subjoin the fifteenth verse of the forty-second chapter, and place the fourteen first verses of the fortieth chapter immediately after the sixth verse of the forty-second chapter, and by that means make them the conclusion of the poem, all will be right; and this seventh verse of the forty-second chapter will be in its natural order. The action will be complete by the judgment of the Almighty; and the catastrophe of the poem will be grand and solemn." To these reasons of Mr. Heath, Dr. Kennicott has added others, which the reader may find at the end of the chapter. (Job 40:24) Without taking any farther notice of the transposition in this place, I will continue the notes in the present order of the verses. |
43 And his servitor [08334] said [0559], What, should I set [05414] this before [06440] an hundred [03967] men [0376]? He said again [0559], Give [05414] the people [05971], that they may eat [0398]: for thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068], They shall eat [0398], and shall leave [03498] thereof.
25 And now art thou any thing better [02896] than Balak [01111] the son [01121] of Zippor [06834], king [04428] of Moab [04124]? did he ever [07378] strive [07378] against Israel [03478], or did he ever [03898] fight [03898] against them,
1 Then the LORD [03068] answered [06030] Job [0347] out of the whirlwind [05591], and said [0559],
1 Moreover the LORD [03068] answered [06030] Job [0347], and said [0559],
24 He taketh [03947] it with his eyes [05869]: his nose [0639] pierceth through [05344] snares [04170].
7 And it was so, that after [0310] the LORD [03068] had spoken [01696] these words [01697] unto Job [0347], the LORD [03068] said [0559] to Eliphaz [0464] the Temanite [08489], My wrath [0639] is kindled [02734] against thee, and against thy two [08147] friends [07453]: for ye have not spoken [01696] of me the thing that is right [03559], as my servant [05650] Job [0347] hath.