Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

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.

Commenting on Job 40:1-5

John Gill Reformed Baptist @doctorgill

Then Job answered the Lord,.... Finding that he was obliged to answer, he did, but with some reluctance: and said; as follows:

Keil & Delitzsch Lutheran @keilanddelitzsch

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.

Commenting on Job 40:1-3