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Job 40:6

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Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind and said,
Job 40:6 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
  • KJV Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
  • BSB Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
  • NKJV Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:
  • NLT Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind:

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Quick answer

Yahweh again speaks to Job out of the whirlwind, beginning a second round of questioning. God renews his address to lead Job to deeper understanding.

Overview

God resumes speaking from the whirlwind, the same awesome setting in which he first answered Job. Job's initial humbling was genuine but not yet complete, so God presses further. The second speech will move from the wonders of creation to the great creatures Behemoth and Leviathan, deepening Job's sense of God's power and his own need to trust rather than to charge God with wrong.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 4

  • Job 38:1Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
  • Heb 12:18–20For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
  • Ps 50:3–4Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
  • 2 Pet 3:10–12But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

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Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Job videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.

  • CommentaryClassic commentaries for this verseBibleHub (20+ works) · Pastoral · Free

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on JobMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

How Job 40:6 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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Then answeredעָנָהthe LORDיְהֹוָהunto Jobאִיּוֹבout of the whirlwindסַעַרand saidאָמַר
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