Matthew Henry 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. It should seem, God paused awhile, as Elihu had done, to give Job time to say what he had to say, or to think of what God had said; but Job was in such confusion that he remained silent, and therefore God here put him upon replying, Job 40:1, Job 40:2. This is not said to be spoken out of the whirlwind, as before; and therefore some think God said…
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Lord--JEHOVAH.
Adam Clarke on Job 40:2
He that reproveth God, let him answer it - Let the man who has made so free with God and his government, answer to what he has now heard.
John Gill on Job 40:3
Then Job answered the Lord,.... Finding that he was obliged to answer, he did, but with some reluctance:
and said; as follows:
Keil & Delitzsch on 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. 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-finde…
