9Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard. …
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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. Those who are truly convinced of sin, and penitent for…
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