Job 42:1

1 Then Job ['Iyowb] answered [`anah] the LORD [Yahovah], and said ['amar], KJV-Interlinear

1 Then Job answered the Lord, and said, NASB

God concluded what He had to say by means of the examples of the Behemoth and the Leviathan. In Jobs day, when technology and science was not as well known as it is today, these examples were quite enough for convincing folks of Gods immense wisdom.

Today where scientific knowledge is far greater than at any time in all of human history, if God were to appear before us in a whirlwind, He would no doubt give us examples that would equally blow our minds with far superior illustrations. Ones that perhaps even science has not yet discovered or cannot yet explain.

With Gods conclusion, Job immediately drops into full submission and humility of Gods superior knowledge and wisdom.

Job does not challenge Gods words, doesn't test Gods knowledge, doesn't question God in any way, doesn't go defensive and try to explain or justify himself before God. And that is the nature of the first half of this chapter. Jobs humility and confession.

Note, that Job alone confessed, while the rest of those present did not.

In the latter half of this chapter, God will accept Jobs confession, condemn the others and demand they seek penance through a sacrifice, and promises them forgiveness only if another (Job) intercedes for them in their behalf.

Then the book will resume from where it began, and conclude with Jobs blessings and long life.

Thus far we have studied this book in 590 lessons. We have spent a little more than a year and a half on this study. But Job has given us a great deal of doctrine for thought. Just one chapter to go and then we will probably go to the New Testament. I am thinking of the Book of James. But we'll see. The request line is open - so to speak.

Now is the time to post a prayer.