Then you can save yourself

Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, and array yourself with glory and beauty. …Then I will also confess to you That your own right hand can save you. - Job 40v10-14

God told Job exactly how he could save himself by his own strength, knowledge and ability. Job could adorn himself with glory and beauty and have the power to save himself as soon as he could explain all of the aspects of creation that God describe.

When Job could override God’s judgements, condemn God by Job’s righteousness, have the strength of God, speak through thunder, and control all of mankind he could then, and only then, clothe himself in majesty and splendour and glory and beauty. Then, and only then, would he have the power to save himself.

I enjoy the study of the next question. Just in case Job did not get it yet, God challenges him to consider behemoth and leviathan. I am no zoologist, but when I read about these creatures I don’t see anything like them alive today. These were some type of amazing creatures. I am one of those who suspects that these creatures were dinosaurs. God spends forty-three verses describing their strength. It appears that man could not do much about them. There were the mightiest of God’s creation.

But that is the point. As strong and powerful as they were, they were still God’s creation. If creatures could have pride, these two could claim it. At the end of chapter 41 God makes the application – ‘leviathan is a king over all the children of pride.’

Job thought he had to have an answer to all of his problems so that he could sort them out. Job was not even as strong as behemoth and leviathan and they had no strength compared to God.

When we think we have a better answer than God in regard to our lives let’s consider behemoth and leviathan. Compared to God they are powerless. Compared to them we are powerless.

How can we think that we can do a better Job of dealing with our circumstances than God can?