Job 40:6-14

Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead. His Kingdom will have no end! We are not qualified to judge…He is.

If God approves of a thing…it will happen.

If God does not approve of a thing…it will not.

All things on heaven and on earth are subject to Him.

Job 40:6-14

6 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:

7 “Now  prepare yourself like a man;

I will question you, and you shall answer Me:

8 “Would you indeed annul My judgment?

Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

9 Have you an arm like God?

Or can you thunder with a voice like His?

10 Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor,

And array yourself with glory and beauty.

11 Disperse the rage of your wrath;

Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him.

12 Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low;

Tread down the wicked in their place.

13 Hide them in the dust together,

Bind their faces in hidden darkness.

14 Then I will also confess to you

That your own right hand can save you.

As with His first discourse, God issues a challenge to Job before laying out His argument. Job repeatedly claimed to be in the right. By claiming innocence and demanding an answer from God, Job came close to justifying himself over God—an accusation made by Elihu. God tells Job to dress himself with the grandeur that accompanies God as Creator and King. Since Job complained that God was not punishing the wicked, God now invites Job to do it. He emphasizes the large-scale judgment that Job would be required to carry out. If Job administered justice over the whole earth, he would no longer need God—he could vindicate himself. Faithlife Bible.

God has not finished speaking but the stakes are even higher now. The Lord confronts Job with critical errors in his speeches. Job has dared to annul God’s judgment or justice. The context of Elihu’s speeches, where Elihu used this same word concerning the Lord’s kingship over the universe, suggests that Job has maligned God’s justice by claiming that God rules without establishing moral or social order in the universe. Because Job had assumed the inflexible retribution dogma, which views suffering in this world as God’s punishment for sin, Job had to condemn God in order to maintain his own innocence. The absurdity of Job’s defiant criticism of the way the Lord runs the universe and for Job’s claim to be fair in his judicial duties is forcefully brought to his attention by God’s ironic invitation to become “king for a day” over the whole universe. If Job had the power, let him don the royal regalia of God’s majestic attributes and humble the proud and wicked forces in the world. Job had criticized God for not doing this well enough. NJ Bible.

Those who profit by what they have heard from God, shall hear more from him. And those who are truly convinced of sin, yet need to be more thoroughly convinced and more humbled. No doubt God, and he only, has power to humble and bring down proud men; he has wisdom to know when and how to do it, and it is not for us to teach him how to govern the world. Our own hands cannot save us by recommending us to God’s grace, much less rescuing us from his justice; and therefore into his hand we must commit ourselves. The renewal of a believer proceeds in the same way of conviction, humbling, and watchfulness against remaining sin, as his first conversion. When convinced of many evils in our conduct, we still need convincing of many more. Matthew Henry Commentary.