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Text -- Job 40:6-24 (NET)

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The Lord’s Second Speech
40:6 Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind: 40:7 “Get ready for a difficult task like a man. I will question you and you will inform me! 40:8 Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right? 40:9 Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his? 40:10 Adorn yourself, then, with majesty and excellency, and clothe yourself with glory and honor! 40:11 Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low; 40:12 Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot! 40:13 Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave. 40:14 Then I myself will acknowledge to you that your own right hand can save you.
The Description of Behemoth
40:15 “Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox. 40:16 Look at its strength in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly. 40:17 It makes its tail stiff like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound. 40:18 Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron. 40:19 It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword. 40:20 For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play. 40:21 Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh. 40:22 The lotus trees conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it. 40:23 If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth. 40:24 Can anyone catch it by its eyes, or pierce its nose with a snare?
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · behemoth the 'great beast', possibly the hippopotamus
 · Behemoth the 'great beast', possibly the hippopotamus
 · Job a man whose story is told in the book of Job,a man from the land of Uz in Edom
 · Jordan the river that flows from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea,a river that begins at Mt. Hermon, flows south through Lake Galilee and on to its end at the Dead Sea 175 km away (by air)


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Behemoth | God | Condescension of God | NIGHT-MONSTER | Animals | Job | REED | PALESTINE, 3 | WILLOWS | THUNDER | LOTUS TREES | SHADE; SHADOW; SHADOWING | Elephant | GRASS | MARSH | ORNAMENT | NOSE; NOSTRILS | NAVEL | TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT | WHIRLWIND | more
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NET Notes: Job 40:6 The speech can be divided into three parts: the invitation to Job to assume the throne and rule the world (40:7-14), the description of Behemoth (40:1...

NET Notes: Job 40:7 See note on “task” in 38:3.

NET Notes: Job 40:8 The verb פָּרַר (parar) means “to annul; to break; to frustrate.” It was one thing for Job to claim hi...

NET Notes: Job 40:9 Heb “do you have an arm like God?” The words “as powerful as” have been supplied in the translation to clarify the metaphor.

NET Notes: Job 40:11 The word was just used in the positive sense of excellence or majesty; now the exalted nature of the person refers to self-exaltation, or pride.

NET Notes: Job 40:12 The expression translated “on the spot” is the prepositional phrase תַּחְתָּם (takht...

NET Notes: Job 40:13 The word is “secret place,” the place where he is to hide them, i.e., the grave. The text uses the word “secret place” as a me...

NET Notes: Job 40:14 The imperfect verb has the nuance of potential imperfect: “can save; is able to save.”

NET Notes: Job 40:15 Heb “with you.” The meaning could be temporal (“when I made you”) – perhaps a reference to the sixth day of creation (Ge...

NET Notes: Job 40:16 In both of these verses הִנֶּה (hinneh, “behold”) has the deictic force (the word is from Greek δ...

NET Notes: Job 40:17 The verb חָפַץ (khafats) occurs only here. It may have the meaning “to make stiff; to make taut” (Arabic). T...

NET Notes: Job 40:19 The literal reading of the MT is “let the one who made him draw near [with] his sword.” The sword is apparently a reference to the teeth o...

NET Notes: Job 40:20 The word בּוּל (bul) probably refers to food. Many take it as an abbreviated form of יְבוּ...

NET Notes: Job 40:22 The suffix is singular, but must refer to the trees’ shade.

NET Notes: Job 40:23 Or “he remains calm.”

NET Notes: Job 40:24 Ehrlich altered the MT slightly to get “with thorns,” a view accepted by Driver, Dhorme and Pope.

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