Job 40:3 Meaning and Explanation
“Then Job answered the LORD, and said,”
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Read Full Chapter →Job responds to God for the first time since the whirlwind began to speak.
What Does Job 40:3 Mean?
A single line, but a weighty one. For chapters Job has spoken to his friends and about God; here at last he speaks to God in reply to God's own voice. The long debate has narrowed to this meeting of two: the Maker and the man.
What follows is short and broken, the speech of someone who has run out of arguments and found something better. Job does not answer the riddles about Pleiades or the wild ox; he answers the One who asked them. Sometimes the truest response to God is not an explanation but a turning of the whole self toward Him. Job is learning to listen before he speaks.
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What does Job 40:3 mean?
Job responds to God for the first time since the whirlwind began to speak.