God Remains Powerful during Our Suffering

God alone is clothed with majesty and excellency God Remains Powerful during Our Suffering

6 Then the L ORD answered Job from the whirlwind: 7 “Get ready for a difficult task like a man. I will question you and you will inform me! 8 Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right? 9 Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his? Job 40:6-14 (NET Bible)

10 Adorn yourself, then, with majesty and excellency, and clothe yourself with glory and honor! 11 Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low; 12 Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot! 13 Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave. 14 Then I myself will acknowledge to you that your own right hand can save you.” Job 40:6-14 (NET Bible)

14 What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be! 15 For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth.” 18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires. 19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” 20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? Romans 9:14-20 (NASB)

God gives Job an answer without an explanation. God Remains Powerful during Our Suffering

God alone is clothed with majesty and excellency God Remains Powerful during Our Suffering

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40:15 “Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox. 16 Look at its strength in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly. 40:23 If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth. 24 Can anyone catch it by its eyes, or pierce its nose with a snare?” Job 40:15 – 41:34 (NET Bible)

41:1 (40:25) “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? 2 Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? 3 Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words? 4 Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life? 5 Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls? Job 40:15 – 41:34 (NET Bible)

41:10 Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it? 11 (Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!) 41:33 The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear. 34 It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud.” Job 40:15 – 41:34 (NET Bible)

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“Suggestions as to the identity of this animal include an elephant, a rhinoceros, a plant-eating brontosaurus (dinosaur), a water buffalo, and a hippopotamus.” –BKC “Suggestions as to the identity of this animal include an elephant, a rhinoceros, a plant-eating brontosaurus (dinosaur), a water buffalo, and a hippopotamus.” –BKC God Remains Powerful during Our Suffering

“An invitation to observe this mighty beast that is far beyond human strength but still one of God’s pets.” –Robert Alden “An invitation to observe this mighty beast that is far beyond human strength but still one of God’s pets.” –Robert Alden God Remains Powerful during Our Suffering

“This beast has been variously interpreted as the seven-headed sea monster Lotan of Ugaritic mythology, the whale, the dolphin, a marine dinosaur that survived the Flood, and, most likely, the crocodile.” –BKC “This beast has been variously interpreted as the seven-headed sea monster Lotan of Ugaritic mythology, the whale, the dolphin, a marine dinosaur that survived the Flood, and, most likely, the crocodile.” –BKC God Remains Powerful during Our Suffering

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33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways! 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? 35 Or who has first given to God, that God needs to repay him? 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen. Romans 11:33-36 (NET Bible)

God alone is clothed with majesty and excellency God alone can control the powerful God alone is clothed with majesty and excellency God alone can control the powerful God Remains Powerful during Our Suffering

God alone is clothed with majesty and excellency God alone can control the powerful God alone warrants fearful repentance God alone is clothed with majesty and excellency God alone can control the powerful God alone warrants fearful repentance God Remains Powerful during Our Suffering

1 Then Job answered the L ORD : 2 “I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted; 3 you asked, ‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know. 4 You said, ‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’ 5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you. 6 Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes! Job 42:1-6 (NET Bible)

“Job did not need to repent over sins that brought on his suffering since his suffering was not the result of his sin. But that is not to say that Job had nothing to be sorry for. His questioning of God’s justice…is enough to call forth a change of heart and mind.” –Frank E. Gaebelein “Job did not need to repent over sins that brought on his suffering since his suffering was not the result of his sin. But that is not to say that Job had nothing to be sorry for. His questioning of God’s justice…is enough to call forth a change of heart and mind.” –Frank E. Gaebelein God Remains Powerful during Our Suffering

“This is one of the most important verses in the book, if not the most important. As a result of seeing God, Job “hated/despised” himself, a much stronger reaction than the “unworthy” of 40:4. Then he “repented in dust and ashes,” an outward demonstration of his inward contrition and the death of his own opinions.” –Robert Alden God Remains Powerful during Our Suffering