Job 40:9 (BSB)
Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?
Commentary on Job 40:9
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 40:6-14: Job was greatly humbled for what God had already said, but not sufficiently; he was brought low, but not low enough; and therefore God here proceeds to reason with him in the same manner and to the same purport as before, Job 40:6. Observe, 1. Those who duly receive what they have heard from God, and profit by it, shall hear more from him. 2.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 40:9: Hast thou an arm like God?.... Such power as he has, which is infinite, almighty, and uncontrollable, and therefore there is no contending with him; as he has an arm on which good men may lean on and trust in, and by which they are supported, protected, and saved, so he has an arm to crush like a moth all that strive with him or...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 40:9: arm--God's omnipotence (Isa 53:1). thunder--God's voice (Job 37:4).
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Job 40:9: Hast thou an arm like God? - Every word, from this to the end of Job 40:14, has a wonderful tendency to humble the soul; and it is no wonder that at the conclusion of these sayings Job fell in the dust confounded, and ascribed righteousness to his Maker.