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Job 9:11

Lo, He goeth by me, and I see Him not; He passeth on also, but I perceive Him not. Though his eyes cannot see the great and mighty God, his spirit perceives His nearness, as He sweeps by like a destructive wind before which no man can stand.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 9:11. _LO, HE GOETH BY ME, AND I SEE_ HIM _NOT_] He is incomprehensible in all his ways, and in all his works; and he must be so it he be GOD, and _work_ as GOD; for his own nature and his o...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LO, HE GOETH BY ME - That is, he passes along - as in the silent movements of the heavenly bodies. “I see the evidence of his existence. I can see that God must be there - moving along by me in the or...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 9-10 JOB ANSWERS BILDAD _ 1. The supremacy and power of God (Job 9:1)_ 2. How then can Job meet Him? (Job 9:11) 3. He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked (Job 9:22) 4. Confession of we...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 9:1 is Job's answer to the position taken up by Bildad, viz. that the Almighty cannot judge falsely (Job 8:3). In Job 2 accepts the general principle that God judges according to merit. But of wha...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LO. Figure of speech. _Asterismos_. App-6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This power is subtle and invisible in its presence, felt but impossible to grasp....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    From the operation of this terrible force in the physical world Job passes on to describe its display among creatures, and to shew how it paralyses and crushes them....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LO, HE GOETH BY ME, &C.— _Who, if he passeth by me, I cannot behold him:_ yea, _while he glideth swiftly away, I perceive him not._ Houbigant and Heath....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. NOT GUILTYTHE CRIME OF INNOCENCEJOB'S CRY (Job 9:1, Job 10:22) 1. Man is no match before the all-powerful, all-wise God. (Job 9:1-12) TEXT 9:1-12 9 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 Of a truth I k...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _LO, HE GOETH BY ME, AND I SEE HIM NOT: HE PASSETH ON ALSO, BUT I PERCEIVE HIM NOT._ Lo, he goeth by me. Not only nature, but man experiences the terrors of God's resistless power. I SEE HIM NOT: HE...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S SECOND SPEECH (JOB 9:10) Job 9:10 are, perhaps, in their religious and moral aspects the most difficult in the book. Driver in his 'Introduction to the Literature of the OT.' analyses them as f...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Job is baffled by the suddenness and mystery of God's actions. There is no escaping Him....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 9 JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S F...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Often we are not aware of God’s work. We do not realise what he is doing. But God is not far away from us. God’s Holy Spirit is working in our world. And he will work in our lives too, if we allow him...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HE PASSETH ON ALSO. — This, again, is an expression Eliphaz had used in Job 4:15. Here in words of great sublimity Job depicts the unapproachable majesty of God omnipotent, but invisible, and shows th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֵ֤ן יַעֲבֹ֣ר עָ֭לַי וְ לֹ֣א אֶרְאֶ֑ה וְ֝

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN JOB 9:1; Job 10:1 Job SPEAKS IT is with an infinitely sad restatement of what God has been made to appear to him by Bildad's speech that Job begins his reply. Yes, yes; it...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE DAYSMAN” Job 9:1 Ponder the sublimity of the conceptions of God given in this magnificent passage. To God are attributed the earthquake that rocks the pillars on which the world rests, Job 9:6;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Job now answered Bildad. He first admitted the truth of the general proposition, Of a truth I know that it IS so; and then propounded the great question, which he subsequently proceeded to discuss in...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Lo, he goeth (e) by me, and I see [him] not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. (e) I am not able to comprehend his works, which are common and daily before my eyes, much less in those thing...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Understand, as he is a spirit; (Menochius) and not that God is changeable, but his works and judgments are above our comprehension, and we are always liable to change. Hence the proud erroneously thi...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (5) Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. (6) Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. (7) Which commandeth the sun, a...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LO, HE GOETH BY ME, AND I SEE [HIM] NOT,.... This is expressive of the invisibility of God; for though the angels in heaven always behold his face, and men, in the works of creation, may see his etern...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. Ver. 11. _Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not_] As he is powerful in his deeds, so he is secret in his designs,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Lo he goeth by me_ Or _besides_, or _before_ me, in my presence; that is, he worketh by his providence in ways of mercy or judgment. _And I see him not_ I see the effects, but I cannot understand the...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    HOW CAN MAN BE JUST BEFORE GOD? (vv.1-13) Job's reply to Bildad occupies two Chapter s, 35 verses longer than Bildad's arguments had taken. But Job acknowledged, "Truly, I know it is so," that is, h...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    God is incomprehensible. "No one can keep God from snatching someone away, and no one can force God to answer the question, 'What art Thou doing?'" _(p. 47)._ The human eye cannot see Him, the senses...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-13 In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied himself to be a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before him he pleaded guilty of sins more tha...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HE GOETH, i.e. he worketh by his providence in ways of mercy or judgment. BY ME; or, _besides_ or _before me_; in my presence. I SEE HIM NOT; I see the effects, but I cannot understand the causes or g...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 9:11 goes H5674 (H8799) see H7200 (H8799) past H2498 (H8799) perceive H995 (H8799) he goeth -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job answers Bildad, denying he is a hypocrite. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Bildad. CONCLUSION: Man is an unequal match for his Maker, either in dispute or combat. If God should deal with any of...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 9:5. _Removeth the mountains,_ by earthquakes. The great mountain ranges have continuous caverns, with interior rivers and lakes. Where liases, iron and sulphur abound, volcanoes form their beds o...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _So He goeth by me._ GOD PASSING BY These mighty saints of old may have had fewer books to read than we have in our day, but they had one glorious book, the volume of nature, whose ever-open pages, w...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Which doeth great things past finding out._ JOB’S IDEA OF WHAT GOD IS TO MANKIND He regards the Eternal as-- I. Inscrutable. 1. In His works. “Which doeth great things past finding out.” How great...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 9:1 Job responds, in a speech that is relentlessly legal: ch. Job 9:1 is framed by the term CONTEND ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD_ Strongly affirms the truth of Bildad’s speech as to God’s justice (Job 9:1). Declares the impossibility of fallen man establishing his righteousness with God. The same, already...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 9:1 Job, in answer to Bildad, admits the truth of his arguments, but declines to attempt the justification which can alone entitle him to accept the favourable side of Bildad's alterna...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Job answers him and he said, I know it is true (Job 9:1-2): What? That God is fair. That God is just. Now that is something that we need to all know. That is true. God is righteous. God is just. Th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Timothy 6:16; Job 23:8; Job 23:9; Job 35:14; Psalms 77:19...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Goeth — He works by his providence in ways of mercy or judgment. Passeth — He goeth from place to place: from one action to another: he speaks of God after the manner of men....

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