Job 40:13 Meaning and Explanation
“Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →God challenges Job to consign the proud to the dust and to shut them away, a power belonging to God alone.
What Does Job 40:13 Mean?
The challenge reaches its close. Let Job, if he can, bury the proud in the dust and bind their faces in the hidden place, language that evokes the grave and the realm of the dead. To hold authority over life and death in this way is utterly beyond mortal power.
God alone holds the keys to the dust and to what lies beyond it. This is sobering, yet for those who trust Him it is also hope, for the God who can bind the proud in death is the God who can also raise the lowly to life. The same Lord who lays low can lift up. We rest our times in His hands, knowing that even the dust answers to His word and that nothing, not even the grave, lies outside His care.
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What does Job 40:13 mean?
God challenges Job to consign the proud to the dust and to shut them away, a power belonging to God alone.