Teks -- Job 40:13 (NET)

40:13 Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave.

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Wesley: Job 40:13 - Hide

Kill every one of them at one blow.

Wesley: Job 40:13 - Bind

Condemn or destroy them. He alludes to the manner of covering the faces of condemned persons, and of dead men.

Wesley: Job 40:13 - In secret

In a secret place, bury them in their graves.

JFB: Job 40:13

(Isa 2:10). Abase and remove them out of the sight of men.

JFB: Job 40:13 - bind . . . faces

That is, shut up their persons [MAURER]. But it refers rather to the custom of binding a cloth over the faces of persons about to be executed (Job 9:24; Est 7:8).

JFB: Job 40:13 - in secret

Consign them to darkness.

Clarke: Job 40:13 - Hide them in the dust together

Hide them in the dust together - Blend the high and the low, the rich and the poor, in one common ruin. Show them that thou art supreme, and canst do whatsoever thou pleasest

Clarke: Job 40:13 - Bind their faces in secret

Bind their faces in secret - This seems to refer to the custom of preserving mummies: the whole body is wrapped round with strong swathings of linen or cotton cloth. Not only the limbs, but the very head, face, and all, are rolled round with strong filleting, so that not one feature can be seen, not even the protuberance of the nose. On the outside of these involutions a human face is ordinarily painted; but as to the real face itself, it is emphatically bound in secret, for those rollers are never intended to be removed.

TSK: Job 40:13 - Hide // bind

Hide : Job 14:13; Psa 49:14; Isa 2:10

bind : Job 36:13; Est 7:8; Joh 11:44

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Poole: Job 40:13 - Bind their faces // In secret

Kill every one of them (as he said, Job 40:12 ) at one blow, as I can do, and bring them all to their graves, that they may sleep in the dust, and never offend thee nor trouble others more.

Bind their faces i.e. condemn or destroy them. He alludes to the manner of covering the faces of condemned persons, Est 7:8 , and of dead men, Joh 11:44 20:7 . See Poole "Job 9:21" .

In secret either in a secret place, bury them in their graves; or secretly, with a secret and invisible stroke, that it may appear it comes from the hand of a God.

Haydock: Job 40:13 - Gristle

Gristle. Hebrew again, "bones." (Calmet) ---

Septuagint, "back-bone, like cast iron."

Gill: Job 40:13 - Hide them in the dust together // and bind their faces in secret

Hide them in the dust together,.... Either in the dust of death, that they may be seen no more in this world, in the same place and circumstances where they showed their pride and haughtiness; or in the dust of the grave, and let them have an inglorious burial, like that of malefactors thrown into some common pit together; as, when multitudes are slain in battle, a large pit is dug, and the bodies are cast in together without any order or decency; or it may be rendered "alike" ^b, let them be treated equally alike, no preference given to one above another;

and bind their faces in secret; alluding, as it is thought, to malefactors when condemned and about to be executed, whose faces are then covered, as Haman's was, Est 7:8; or to the dead when buried, whose faces are bound with napkins, as Lazarus's was, Joh 11:44; the meaning of all these expressions is, that Job would abase and destroy, if he could, every proud man he met with, as God does, in the course of his providence, sooner or later. There had been instances of divine power in this way before, or in the times of Job, which might come to his knowledge; as the casting down of the proud angels out of heaven, 2Pe 2:4; and of casting proud Adam out of paradise, Gen 3:24; the drowning the proud giants of the old world, Gen 7:23; and of dispersing the proud builders of Babel, Gen 11:8; and of destroying Sodom and Gomorrah by fire, Gen 19:24, one of whose reigning sins was pride, Eze 16:49; and of drowning proud Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea, Exo 15:4, which last seems to have been done much about the time Job lived.