Job 40:2

Translations

Modern

“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”

Traditional

Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.

Literal

“Is a reprover to contend with Shaddai? One rebuking God, let him answer it.”

Latin

Numquid qui contendit cum Deo, tam facile conquiescit? utique qui arguit Deum, debet respondere ei.

Original

Hebrew

English

“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”

Notes

Job 40:1–2

The ancient Greek Old Testament (Septuagint) does not include the end of God's first speech.

Job 38:1–40:5

God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints God’s Uniqueness

Events

Job's Trialc. 1650 BC

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Romans 11:34–36
“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
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Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
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Isaiah 50:8
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Matthew 20:11
On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.
Romans 9:19–23
One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
Ezekiel 18:2
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Job 9:3
If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
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For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

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