Job 40:1 (BSB)
And the LORD said to Job:
Commentary on Job 40:1
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 40:1-5: Here is, I. A humbling challenge which God gave to Job. After he had heaped up many hard questions upon him, to show him, by his manifest ignorance in the works of nature, what an incompetent judge he was of the methods and designs of Providence, he clenches the nail with one demand more, which stands by itself here as the application of the whole.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 40:1: Moreover the Lord answered Job,.... The Lord having discoursed largely of the works of nature, in order to reconcile the mind of Job to his works of providence, stopped and made a pause for a little space, that Job might answer if he thought fit; but he being entirely silent, the Lord began again: and said; as follows:
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Job 40:1: 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.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Job 40:1-3: Job 40:1-3 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.