John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said," — Job 40:6 (ASV)
Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the whirlwind
Some think that the whirlwind ceased while the Lord spoke the words in (Job 40:2) ; which encouraged Job to make the answer he did; but others are of opinion that it continued, and now increased, and was more boisterous than before. The Targum calls it the whirlwind of tribulation: comfort does not always follow immediately on first convictions; Job, though humbled, was not yet humbled enough: God will have a fuller confession of sin from him:
It was not sufficient to say he was vile, he must declare his sorrow for his sin, his abhorrence of it, and of himself for it, and his repentance of it; and that he had said things of God he ought not to have said, and which he understood not; and though he had said he would answer no more, God will make him say more, and therefore continued the whirlwind, and to speak out of it; for he had more to say to him, and give him further proof of his power to his full conviction;
and said ;
as follows.