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Job 40-42 - Audio
Job 40-42 Daily Reading

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Oct 18

Job 40.1-5: Being confronted with the greatness of God, Job puts aside his arguments and is humbled.

Job 40.6ff:

• God begins his second round with Job. Lots of sarcasm. Climax is description of two amazing animals – behemoth and leviathan. God is saying I have made these amazing creatures, and you can’t. The focus is always on God's power and sovereignty.
• The speech of God does not address Job’s challenge, simply asserts God’s sovereignty. By implication, it answers his challenge, but indirect answer. In Bible, often, there is technique of answering questions indirectly. Jesus and the Pharisees and Sadducees.

40.15ff: The great and powerful creatures (Behemoth and Leviathan) are under God's control. The picture of these animals is awesome.

42.1-6: The final words of Job in God's presence. He owns that God is God and Job is not. He owns that God is sovereign and so Job needs to accept God's actions in his life.

42.6: This is an interesting verse. The word "myself" is not in the Hebrew. The word "repent" is also the word for "comfort" which is a main theme of Job. This verse could be translated, "Therefore I retract, and am comforted in dust and ashes." The idea is that Job retracts not his claims to righteousness, but his arrogance toward God. He finds comfort not in knowing what has happened to him, but in seeing the majesty of God. For Job, God's majesty is enough.

42.6ff: It is interesting that Job's restoration brings twice of all he had before, except for children. That number stays the same. Some commentators say that the number of children remain the same because he finally has not lost his first children, he will see them at the resurrection.