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Job 40:2
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"Do you still want to argue with the Almighty? You are God's critic, but do you have the answers?"
Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? he that argueth with God, let him answer it.
Shall he that criticizes contend with the Almighty? He that argues with God, let him answer it.
"Will the person who argues with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God answer him."
"Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!"
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct [him]? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
"Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
"Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
Whether he, that stryueth with God, schal haue rest so liytli? Sotheli he, that repreueth God, owith for to answere to hym.
"Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer."
but you have argued that I am wrong. Now you must answer me.
Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.
Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.
"Does the critic still want to dispute Shaddai? Let him who wants to correct God give an answer!"
Shall he that will contend with the Almighty instruct [him]? he that reproveth +God, let him answer it.
"You wanted to argue with God All-Powerful. You wanted to correct me and prove that I was wrong. So give me your answer!"
Shall he that reproveth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.
Shall hee that contendeth with the Almightie, instruct him? he that reproueth God, let him answere it.
"Will one who finds fault not agree with the All-powerful? He who speaks strong words against God, let him answer."
"Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Anyone who argues with God must respond."
Is this to learne to striue with the Almightie? he that reprooueth God, let him answere to it.
Many are the counsels of God; he who reproves God must answer for it.
Shall a reprover contend, with the Almighty? He that disputeth with GOD, let him answer it!
(39-32) Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him.
"Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
Shall he whom the almightie wyl chasten, contend with him? Should not he which disputeth with God, geue him an aunswere?
Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.
Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him?Let him who argues with God give an answer.
"Shall he who argues contend with Shaddai? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
"Shall a faultfinder contend with Shaddai? Anyone who argues with God must answer it."
Shall a reprover contend with the Almighty? He who reproves God, let him answer it.
Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.
Can he that stryueth with the Allmightie, be at rest? Shulde not he which disputeth with God, geue him an answere?
"Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who rebukes God give an answer."
"Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? He who rebukes God, let him answer it."
"Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves God answer it."
"Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty?Let him who reproves God answer it."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Shall: Job 9:3, Job 33:13, Ecclesiastes 6:10, Isaiah 45:9-11, Isaiah 50:8, 1 Corinthians 10:22
instruct: Isaiah 40:14, 1 Corinthians 2:16
he that reproveth: Job 3:11, Job 3:12, Job 3:20, Job 3:23, Job 7:12, Job 7:19-21, Job 9:17, Job 9:18, Job 9:32-35, Job 10:3-7, Job 10:14-17, Job 13:21-27, Job 14:16, Job 14:17, Job 16:11-21, Job 19:6-11, Job 27:2, Job 30:21, Ezekiel 18:2, Matthew 20:11, Romans 9:19-23, Romans 11:34-36
Reciprocal: Job 8:3 - Almighty Job 13:15 - but I will Job 21:22 - teach Job 33:12 - God Proverbs 25:2 - the glory Jeremiah 49:19 - appoint me the time Jeremiah 50:24 - because Daniel 4:35 - What Acts 11:17 - what Romans 9:20 - who art
Cross-References
Shimei the Ramathite was in charge of the vineyards; Zabdi the Shiphmite was in charge of the produce of the vineyards for the wine cellars.
For the wrath of man shall praise You; With a remnant of wrath You will clothe and arm Yourself.
The wrath of a king is like a messenger of death, But a wise man will appease it.
The king's wrath terrifies like the roaring of a lion, But his favor is as [refreshing and nourishing as] dew on the grass.
A man of great anger will bear the penalty [for his quick temper and lack of self-control]; For if you rescue him [and do not let him learn from the consequences of his action], you will only have to rescue him over and over again.
Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood, But who is able to endure and stand before [the sin of] jealousy?
Now Herod [Agrippa I] was extremely angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; and their delegates came to him in a united group, and after persuading Blastus, the king's chamberlain [to support their cause], they asked for peace, because their country was fed by [imports of grain and other goods from] the king's country.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct [him]?.... Is he capable of it? He ought to be that takes upon him to dispute with God, to object or reply to him; that brings a charge against him, enters the debate, and litigates a point with him; which Job wanted to do. But could he or any other instruct him, who is the God of knowledge, the all wise and only wise God; who gives man wisdom, and teaches him knowledge? What folly is it to pretend to instruct him! Or can such an one be "instructed?" as the Targum: he is not in the way of instruction; he that submits to the chastising hand of God may be instructed thereby, but not he that contends with him; see Psalms 94:12. Or should he be one that is instructed? no, he ought to be an instructor, and not one instructed; a teacher, and not one that is taught; he should be above all instruction from God or man that will dispute with the Almighty, The word for instruct has the signification of chastisement, because instruction sometimes comes that way; and then the sense either is, shall a man contend with the Almighty that chastises him? Does it become a son or a servant to strive against a parent or a master that corrects him? Or does not he deserve to be chastised that acts such a part? Some derive the word from one that signifies to remove or depart, and give the sense, shall the abundance, the all sufficiency of God, go from him to another, to a man; and so he, instead of God, be the all sufficient one? Or rather the meaning of the clause is, has there not been much, enough, and more than enough said, Job, to chastise thee, and convince thee of thy mistakes? must more be said? is there any need of it?
he that reproveth God, let him answer it; he that reproves God, for his words, or works, or ways, finding fault with either of them, ought to answer to the question now put; or to any or all of those in the preceding chapters, and not be silent as Job now was.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Shall he that contendeth with the A mighty instruct him? - Gesenius renders this, âContending shall the reprover of God contend with the Almighty?â Prof. Lee, âShall one by contending with the Almighty correct this?â On the grammatical construction, see Gesenius on the word ×ס×ר yissoÌr, and Rosenmuller and Lee, in loc. The meaning seems to be this: âWill he who would enter into a controversy with the Almighty now presume to instruct him? He that was so desirous of arguing his cause with God, will he now answer?â All the language used here is taken from courts, and is such as I have had frequent occasion to explain in these notes. The reference is to the fact that Job had so often expressed a wish to carry his cause, as before a judicial tribunal, directly up to God. He had felt that if he could get it there, he could so argue it as to secure a verdict in his favor; that he could set arguments before the Almighty which would secure a reversal of the fearful sentence which had gone out against him, and which had caused him to be held as a guilty man. God now asks whether he who had been so anxious to have a legal argument, and to carry his cause himself before God - a man disposed to litigation before God (ר×× ruÌb) - was still of the same mind, and felt himself qualified to take upon himself the office of an instructor, a corrector, an admonisher (×ס×ר yissoÌr) of God? He had the opportunity now, and God here paused, after the sublime exhibition of his majesty and power in the previous chapters, to give him an opportunity, as he wished, to carry his cause directly before him. The result is stated in Job 40:3-4. Job had now nothing to say.
He that reproveth God - Or rather, âHe that is disposed to carry his cause before God,â as Job had often expressed a wish to do. The word used here (××× yaÌkach) is often employed, especially in the Hiphil, in a âforensic sense,â and means âto argue, to show, to proveâ anything; then âto argue down, to confute, to convict;â see Job 6:25; Job 13:15; Job 19:5; Job 32:12; Proverbs 9:7-8; Proverbs 15:12; Proverbs 19:25. It is evidently used in that sense here - a Hiphil participle ××××× moÌkiyach - and refers, not to any man in general who reproves God, but to Job in particular, as having expressed a wish to carry his cause before him, and to argue it there.
Let him answer it - Or rather, âLet him answer him.â That is, Is he now ready to answer? There is now an opportunity for him to carry his cause, as he wished, directly before God. Is he ready to embrace the opportunity, and to answer now what the Almighty has said? This does not mean, then, as the common version would seem to imply, that the man who reproves God must be held responsible for it, but that Job, who had expressed the wish to carry his cause before God, had now an opportunity to do so. That this is the meaning, is apparent from the next verses, where Job says that he was confounded, and had nothing to say.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 40:2. He that reproveth God, let him answer it. — Let the man who has made so free with God and his government, answer to what he has now heard.
