Job 40:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,

Job 40:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 38:1
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job 40:6
Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 d…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Job 40:1-24. God’s Second Address. He had paused for a reply, but Job was silent. 1. the Lord--Hebrew, “Jehovah.”