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Job 40:14

Job 40:14
Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee. From all his enemies temporal and spiritual, and out of all evils and calamities whatsoever; and that he stood in no need of…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Then will I also confess unto thee ... - If you can do all this, it will be full proof that you can save yourself, and that you do not need the divine interposition. If he could do all this, then it…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Thine own right hand can save thee - It is the prerogative of God alone to save the human soul. Nothing less than unlimited power, exerted under the direction and impulse of unbounded mercy, can save…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 40:6-14

Job was greatly humbled for what God had already said, but not sufficiently; he was brought low, but not low enough; and therefore God here proceeds to reason with him in the same manner and to the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The verse reads,

Then will I also praise thee,

That thine own right hand can save thee.

If Job will shew himself worthy of that place to which he aspires when he reproves the rule of God in the…

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