Job 40 · Verse 14

Job 40:14

Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
Job 40:14, King James Version

Job 40:14 in other translations

BSBThen I will confess to you that your own right hand can save you.
WEBThen I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.
ASVThen will I also confess of thee That thine own right hand can save thee.
YLTAnd even I--I do praise thee, For thy right hand giveth salvation to thee.
DARBYThen will I also praise thee, because thy right hand saveth thee.
BBEThen I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.
WebsterThen will I also confess to thee that thy own right hand can save thee.

What does Job 40:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
14. confess--rather, "extol"; "I also," who now censure thee. But since thou canst not do these works, thou must, instead of censuring, extol My government. thine own ... hand ... save--(Psa 44:3). So as to eternal salvation by Jesus Christ (Is 59:16; 63:5).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 Thine own right hand can save thee - It is the prerogative of God alone to save the human soul. Nothing less than unlimited power, exerted under the direction and impulse of unbounded mercy, can save a sinner. This is most clearly asserted in this speech of Jehovah: When thou canst extend an arm like God, i.e., an uncontrollable power - when thou canst arm thyself with the lightning of heaven, and thunder with a voice like God - when thou canst deck thyself with the ineffable glory, beauty, and splendor of the supreme majesty of Jehovah - when thou canst dispense thy judgments over all the earth, to abase the proud, and tread down the wicked - when thou canst as having the keys of hell and death, blend the high and the low in the dust together; then I will acknowledge to thee that thy own right hand can save thee. In other words: Salvation belongeth unto the Lord; no man can save his own soul by works of righteousness which he has done, is doing, or can possibly do, to all eternity. Without Jesus every human spirit must have perished everlastingly. Glory be to God for his unspeakable gift!

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 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…

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Job 40:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְגַם\־ve.gam-and alsoH1571
אֲנִ֥י'a.NiIH589
אוֹדֶ֑ךָּ'o.De.kaI will praise youH3034
כִּֽי\־ki-thatH3588
תוֹשִׁ֖עַto.Shi.a'it will saveH3467
לְךָ֣le.Kha<to> you
יְמִינֶֽךָ\׃ye.mi.Ne.kharight [hand] yourH3225

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 40:14

  • Romans 5:6

    For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

  • Psalms 44:3

    For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

  • Ephesians 2:4-9

    But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. …

  • Psalms 44:6

    For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

  • Isaiah 40:29

    He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Ps 44:3,6; Isa 40:29; Ro 5:6; Eph 2:4-9

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Context

  • Job 40:13

    Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

  • Job 40:14

    Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.

  • Job 40:15

    Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

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Job 40:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		El es la cabeza de los caminos de Dios: el que lo hizo, puede hacer que su cuchillo á él se acerque.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Alors moi aussi je te célébrerai, parce que ta droite te sauve!
German
Elberfelder 1871		Er ist der Erstling der Wege Gottes; der ihn gemacht, hat ihm sein Schwert beschafft.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ipse est principium viarum Dei: qui fecit eum applicabit gladium ejus.