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Verse Job 9:30. _IF I WASH MYSELF WITH SNOW WATER_] Supposed to have
a more detergent quality than common water; and it was certainly
preferred to common water by the ancients. Of this we find an exa...
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IF I WASH MYSELF WITH SNOW WATER - If I should make myself as pure as
possible, and should become, in my view, perfectly holy. Snow water,
it seems, was regarded as especially pure. The whiteness of s...
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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...
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Job again takes up his complaint, but in a quieter tone, so that he is
able to imagine after all a way in which he might maintain his cause
before God. He complains first of the shortness of his life....
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NEVER SO CLEAN. clean with soap....
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_with snow water_ This is according to one reading (_bemê_).
According to another (_bemô_), _with snow_. The latter is better;
snowwater is turbid and foul, ch. Job 6:16; snow is the symbol of the
mos...
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IF I WASH MYSELF, &C.— i.e. Though I should appeal to my former
life, spent in a religious, holy, and virtuous manner, yet this will
be in vain; as I find, from the increase of my calamities, that I
s...
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3. He will be held guilty in spite of everything. (Job 9:25-31)
TEXT 9:25-31
25 NOW MY DAYS ARE SWIFTER THAN A POST:
They flee away, they see no good.
26 They are passed away as the swift ships;...
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_IF I WASH MYSELF WITH SNOW WATER, AND MAKE MY HANDS NEVER SO CLEAN;_
Snow water - thought to be more cleansing than common water, owing to
the whiteness of snow. "I shall be whiter than snow" (Psalm...
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9:30 purity, (a-12) Or 'with lye.'...
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AND MAKE, etc.] RM 'And cleanse my hands with lye,' or potash. He
means that he is really righteous, but God is deteimined to make him
seem wicked.
32-35. Job is conscious that he cannot meet God on...
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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...
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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...
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Job knew that God was his judge. But Job did not think that he could
defend himself. Job thought that his situation was hopeless.
JOB NEEDS SOMEONE TO HELP HIM
V32 God is not a man like me. I canno...
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אִם ־הִתְרָחַ֥צְתִּי _בְ_†_מֵי_†
־שָׁ֑לֶג וַ֝ הֲזִכֹּ֗ותִי...
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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...
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“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;...
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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...
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If I wash (y) myself with snow water, and make my hands never so
clean;
(y) Though I seem pure in my own eyes, yet all is but corruption
before God....
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_Snow. Nitre bring off the dirt better. Chaldean, "soap." Hebrew bor,
is supposed by many to be the Borith of Jeremias ii. 22. Snow-water
was also used through delicacy in summer. (Petronius; Sat.)_...
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(28) I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me
innocent. (29) If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? (30) If I
wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;...
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_UNIVERSAL DEPRAVITY_
‘If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall
abhor me.’
Job 9:30
I. IS THERE NOTHING...
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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...
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IF I WASH MYSELF WITH SNOW WATER,.... As it came from heaven, or
flowed from the mountains covered with snow, as Lebanon, see
Jeremiah 18:14; or was kept in vessels for such use, as being judged
the...
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If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Ver. 30. _If I wash myself with snow water_] Some take the former
words, I am wicked, to be Job's confession of his own sinfulness...
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_If I wash myself with snow-water_, &c. If I clear myself from all
imputations, and fully prove my innocence before men; _yet shalt thou
plunge me in the ditch_ That is, in miry and puddle water, wher...
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If I wash myself with snow-water, which was considered as containing
greater cleansing power than ordinary water, AND MAKE MY HANDS NEVER
SO CLEAN, literally, "cleansing my hands with lye," in an effo...
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JOB INSISTS THAT GOD VISITS ALSO THE RIGHTEOUS WITH AFFLICTION...
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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...
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25-35 What little need have we of pastimes, and what great need to
redeem time, when it runs on so fast towards eternity! How vain the
enjoyments of time, which we may quite lose while yet time conti...
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Job 9:30 wash H7364 (H8694) with H7950 water H4325 H1119 cleanse H2141
(H8689) hands H3709 soap...
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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...
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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...
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_If I wash myself with snow water._
AN ESTIMATE OF THE MORALITY THAT IS WITHOUT GODLINESS
In the eyes of the pure God, the man who has made the most copious
application in his power of snow water to...
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_If I say, I will forget my complaint._
CONCERNING JOB’S SUFFERINGS
I. As too great to render any efforts of self-consolation effective.
Three things are suggested.
1. A valuable power of mind. The...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 John 1:8; Isaiah 1:16; Jeremiah 2:22; Jeremiah 4:14; Proverbs 28:13
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If — If I clear myself from all imputations, and fully prove my
innocency before men....