8 Will you even annul my judgment?
Will you condemn me, that you may be justified? 9 Or do you have an arm like God?
Can you thunder with a voice like him? 10 “Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity.
Array yourself with honor and majesty. 11 Pour out the fury of your anger.
Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low. 12 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him.
Crush the wicked in their place. 13 Hide them in the dust together.
Bind their faces in the hidden place. 14 Then I will also admit to you
that your own right hand can save you.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 40:8-14
Commentary on Job 40:6-14
(Read Job 40:6-14)
Those who profit by what they have heard from God, shall hear more from him. And those who are truly convinced of sin, yet need to be more thoroughly convinced and more humbled. No doubt God, and he only, has power to humble and bring down proud men; he has wisdom to know when and how to do it, and it is not for us to teach him how to govern the world. Our own hands cannot save us by recommending us to God's grace, much less rescuing us from his justice; and therefore into his hand we must commit ourselves. The renewal of a believer proceeds in the same way of conviction, humbling, and watchfulness against remaining sin, as his first conversion. When convinced of many evils in our conduct, we still need convincing of many more.