Friday, October 7, 2016

Job 40

After reading chapter 40:

*Yahweh pauses in his speaking to call out Job. Job answers by saying he is unworthy to reply. Some translations say he is vile. Job is not going to say anything else. So, Yahweh continues speaking to Job "out of the storm." Again, Yahweh tells Job to brace himself like a man, because he's going to ask Job some more highly rhetorical questions that will prove just how mighty he is. Plus, he will do it in a very poetic way. Yahweh asks Job four questions in quick succession. Would Job discredit Yahweh's Justice? (Yes) Would Job condemn yahweh, to justify himself? (Yes)Does Job have an arm like a god's? (Gods have arms?) Can Job 's voice thunder like a god's? (Obviously not.)
Then Job should act like a god and do things like crush wicked people into the dust. Then, and only then, Yahweh would admit that Job can save himself.

*Verses 15-24 are a poetic praise of a peculiar animal called a behemoth. Assuming it is a real animal, it is likely to be an elephant, hippopotamus, or water buffalo. Young earth creationists would have us believe it is a dinosaur, proof that dinosaurs coexisted with people . This claim is very easily proven to be false.

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