Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 40:11

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one [that is] proud, and abase him.

11. cast abroad the rage of thy wrath ] Or, send forth the floods of thy wrath; the figure is that of a raging, overflowing stream.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath – That is, as God does. Show that the same effects can be produced by your indignation which there is in his. God appeals here to the effect of his displeasure in prostrating his foes as one of the evidences of his majesty and glory, and asks Job, if he would compare himself with him, to imitate him in this, and produce similar effects.

And behold every one that is proud, and abase him – That is, look upon such an one and bring him low, or humble him by a look. It is implied here that God could do this, and he appeals to it as a proof of his power.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

Inflict heavy judgements upon thine enemies, the Chaldeans and Sabeans, and others who have injured or provoked thee. Destroy him with an angry look, as I can do and delight to do with such persons.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

11. ragerather, pour out theredundant floods of, &c.

beholdTry, canst thou,as God, by a mere glance abase the proud (Isa2:12, &c.)?

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath,…. Work thyself up into a passion, at least seemingly; put on all the airs of a wrathful and enraged king on a throne of state, whose wrath is like the roaring of a lion, and as messengers of death; pour out menaces plentifully, threatening what thou wilt do; and try if by such means thou canst humble the spirit of a proud man, as follows;

and behold everyone [that is] proud, and abase him; look sternly at him, put on a fierce, furious, and menacing countenance, and see if thou canst dash a proud man out of countenance, and humble him before thee, as I am able; among the many instances of divine power the Lord settles upon this one, and proposes it to Job to try his skill and power upon, the humbling of a proud man.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

11. Cast abroad thy wrath Literally, Let the outbreakings of thy wrath pour forth. A solemnly prominent thought in this personification of Job as deity is this, that wrath belongs to God.

And abase him A constantly recurring conception in Oriental and classical literature represents the work of Deity to be, the abasement of the proud. The answer of AEsop to Chilon, who asked, “What is God engaged, in doing?” that “He is abasing the high and lifting up the low,” Bayle calls “the epitome of human history,” and says that a book might be written “concerning the centre of moral oscillation.”

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 40:11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one [that is] proud, and abase him.

Ver. 11. Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath ] In this glorious equipage; make thy just indignation felt by all the rebels of the world, Nemo te impune lacesset.

And behold every one that is proud ] Look upon him oculo minaci, with a flaming eye; look through him, let him see thy displeasure. Upon some God looketh to convert them, as Christ did upon Peter, Luk 22:61 . Upon others, to confound them, — Y ..

And abase him ] Abate his pride, and abase his pomp and greatness; this is God like, Psa 147:6 . Aesop, being asked by Chilo (one of the seven wise men of Greece), What God was doing? answered, He abaseth the proud, and exalteth the lowly minded. Tamerlane, to manifest that he knew how to punish the haughty, made Bajazet, the Great Turk, to be shackled, and shut up in an iron cage, and so carried up and down as he passed through Asia, to be scorned and derided by his own people. And when one of his favourites requested him to remit some part of his severity against the person of so great a prince, Tamerlane answered, That he did not use that rigour against him out of hatred to the man, but to manifest the just judgment of God against the arrogant folly of so proud a tyrant (Turk. Hist. f. 220).

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

rage = overflowings.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

Cast: Job 20:23, Job 27:22, Deu 32:22, Psa 78:49, Psa 78:50, Psa 144:6, Rom 2:8, Rom 2:9

behold: Exo 9:16, Exo 9:17, Exo 15:6, Exo 18:11, Isa 2:11, Isa 2:12, Isa 2:17, Isa 10:12-19, Eze 28:2, Dan 4:37, Dan 5:20-23, Oba 1:3, Oba 1:4, Mal 4:1, Luk 18:14, Act 12:22, Act 12:23, Jam 4:6, 1Pe 5:5, 1Pe 5:6

Reciprocal: Num 16:27 – and stood Jdg 4:17 – fled 2Sa 22:28 – but thine 1Ki 20:32 – Thy servant 2Ki 14:13 – took Amaziah Neh 9:10 – they Job 26:12 – he smiteth Psa 36:11 – foot Psa 94:2 – render Psa 101:5 – an high Psa 119:21 – rebuked Psa 138:6 – but the proud Pro 15:25 – destroy Isa 5:15 – the eyes Isa 10:33 – and the haughty Isa 22:19 – General Isa 23:9 – to stain Isa 26:5 – bringeth Isa 40:4 – every mountain Jer 50:31 – O thou Eze 28:17 – I will cast Dan 4:24 – come Hab 2:4 – his 2Co 10:5 – and every

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge