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Job 40:14 Explained in Context
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Verse 14. 14Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
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Quick Meaning
Job 40:14 closes the thought unit with the words “Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.” The LORD develops the next stated step through “Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee” as part of The LORD Tests Job's Capacity to Govern Justice.
Read It With
- Job 40:6–40:14
Read Job 40:14 with 40:6–40:14. Read alone, “Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: The LORD resumes from the whirlwind, asks whether Job will condemn God to justify himself, and challenges Job to abase every proud and wicked person by his own power.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The second divine challenge moves from Job's silence to justice and human governing capacity, then tests mastery through Behemoth and Leviathan. Within that relationship, Job 40:14 closes the thought unit through “Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.”
Read Job 40:6–14 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 40:6–40:14 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained divine-speech movement: “The LORD Tests Job's Capacity to Govern Justice.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 6. 6 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Verse 7. 7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Verse 8. 8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
Verse 9. 9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
Verse 10. 10 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
Verse 11. 11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
Verse 12. 12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
Verse 13. 13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
Verse 14. 14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
What Remains True
The LORD resumes from the whirlwind, asks whether Job will condemn God to justify himself, and challenges Job to abase every proud and wicked person by his own power. Enduring righteousness requires evidence, fair hearing, accountable power, and concrete protection for people whose dignity, labor, safety, or livelihood is at stake. Job 40:14 carries that bounded truth through “Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.”
How It Can Shape Life
- Carry Job 40:6–40:14 into practice through specific evidence, fair process, accountable use of power, and material protection for affected people; do not substitute insinuation, status, or spiritual language for investigation and repair. Preserve this unit-specific boundary in the action: The challenge makes governance and justice central, yet interpretations differ on whether it rebukes Job's charge, exposes human limits, or raises further moral difficulty. The verse-specific evidence to retain is “Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.”
Continue in Context
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Read Job 40:6–40:14 — The LORD Tests Job's Capacity to Govern JusticeSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 40:6–40:14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 40:6–40:14
Open the fixed Hebrew Job file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Job
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006; current official PDF
Supports: Verse-level controls for Job's difficult Hebrew, syntax, older KJV language, textual issues, speech boundaries, and alternatives in Job 40:6–40:14.
Exact location: Official NET Job PDF, exact translator, study, and textual notes attached to Job 40:6–40:14
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