Job 40:5
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I have spoken once, but I have no answer— twice, but I have nothing to add.”
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Many humbling confounding questions God had put to Job, in the foregoing chapter; now, in this chapter, I. He demands an answer to them (Job 40:1, Job 40:2). II. Job submits in a humble silence (Job 40:3-5). III. God proceeds to reason with him, for his conviction, concerning the infinite distance and disproportion between him and God, showing that he was by no means an equal match for God. He challenges him (Job 40:6, Job 40:7) to vie with him, if he durst, for justice (Job 40:8), power (Job 40:9), majesty (Job 40:10), and dominion over the proud (Job 40:11-14), and he gives an instance of his power in one particular animal, here called "Behemoth," (Job 40:15-24).
Open source ↗40:5 Job had nothing more to say; he had no further charges against God, nor would he make a rebuttal.
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God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,
For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.
If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
So the king of Israel sent word to the place the man of God had pointed out. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.