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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...
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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...
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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 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...
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LO. Figure of speech. _Asterismos_. App-6....
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This power is subtle and invisible in its presence, felt but
impossible to grasp....
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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....
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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....
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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...
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_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...
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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 is baffled by the suddenness and mystery of God's actions. There
is no escaping Him....
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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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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...
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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...
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הֵ֤ן יַעֲבֹ֣ר עָ֭לַי וְ לֹ֣א אֶרְאֶ֑ה
וְ֝
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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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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...
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_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...
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(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...
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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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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...
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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,...
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_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...
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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 destru...
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JOB'S DEFENSE AGAINST SUSPICION.
Both Eliphaz and Bildad had attempted to fasten upon Job some specific
wrong, seeking from him a confession to that effect. He therefore
defends himself against this...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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Job 9:11 goes H5674 (H8799) see H7200 (H8799) past H2498 (H8799)
perceive H995 (H8799)
he goeth -...
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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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_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...
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_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...
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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 ...
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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 Timothy 6:16; Job 23:8; Job 23:9; Job 35:14; Psalms 77:19...