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Verse Job 9:25. _SWIFTER THAN A POST_] מני רץ _minni rats, than a
runner._ The light-footed messenger or _courier_ who carries messages
from place to place.
_THEY FLEE AWAY_] The _Chaldee_ says, _My...
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NOW MY DAYS ARE SWIFTER THAN A POST - Than a courier, runner, or
racer, רוּץ _rûts_. Vulgate, _cursore_; Septuagint,
δρομέως _dromeōs_, a racer. The word is not unfrequently
applied to the runners...
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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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POST. runner, or courier. Compare Esther 3:13; Esther 3:15....
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_Now my days_ Better, AND MY DAYS under the weight of this unjust and
oppressive Force (Job 9:5).
_than a post_ i. e. a courier, 2 Samuel 18:22; 2 Samuel 18:24....
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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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_NOW MY DAYS ARE SWIFTER THAN A POST: THEY FLEE AWAY, THEY SEE NO
GOOD._
A post - a courier. In the wide Persian empire such couriers, on
dromedaries or on foot, were employed to carry the royal comm...
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A POST] RM a 'runner' with messages....
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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 could hardly remember the time when he was successful. And he
thought that he would die soon. So his life seemed very short....
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SWIFTER THAN A POST. — The runner, with his messages and dispatches.
He now turns away from the contemplation of God and His dealings to
that of his own misery....
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וְ יָמַ֣י קַ֭לּוּ מִנִּי ־רָ֑ץ
בָּֽ֝רְח֗וּ לֹ
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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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_Good, of late. Hebrew, "they see no good."_...
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(22) В¶ This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the
perfect and the wicked. (23) If the scourge slay suddenly, he will
laugh at the trial of the innocent. (24) The earth is given into th...
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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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NOW MY DAYS ARE SWIFTER THAN A POST,.... Or "than a runner" a in a
race, in order to obtain the prize; or than one that rides post, or
runs on foot to carry a message, such as were Cushi and Ahimaaz;...
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Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Ver. 25. _Now my days are swifter than a post, &c._] Not my
prosperous days only (as Broughton glosseth), but the whole course o...
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_Now my days_ The days of my life; _are swifter than a post_ Who rides
upon swift horses; _they see no good_ I enjoy no good in them; seeing
being often put for experiencing either good or evil. Thus...
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Now, my days are swifter than a post, flying away more swiftly than
the motion of a courier, or runner; THEY FLEE AWAY, THEY SEE NO GOOD;
Job despairs of ever being released of his affliction, he has...
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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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Here is another description of the brevity of life. The "runner" in
Job 9:25 refers to. courier, that is. fast runner with the royal
messenger service. The "reed boats" made of papyrus were the
speedb...
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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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What he had said of the calamities which God usually inflicted upon
good men, he now exemplifieth in himself. MY DAYS; the days, either of
my prosperity; for the time of affliction is commonly describ...
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Job 9:25 days H3117 swifter H7043 (H8804) runner H7323 (H8801) away
H1272 (H8804) see H7200 ...
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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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_Now my days are swifter than a post. .. as the swift ships._
ILLUSTRATIONS OF LIFE
I. The text teaches us the brevity of human life. “My days are
swifter than a post.” They are as swift-footed messe...
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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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Esther 8:14; James 4:14; Job 7:6; Job 7:7; Psalms 39:11;...