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Verse Job 9:17. _HE BREAKETH ME WITH A TEMPEST_] The _Targum,
Syriac_, and _Arabic_ have this sense: _He powerfully smites even
every hair of my_ _head and multiplies my wounds without cause_. That
i...
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FOR HE BREAKETH ME - He is overwhelming me with a tempest; that is,
with the storms of wrath. He shows me no mercy. The idea seems to be,
that God acted toward him not as a judge determining matters b...
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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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2. Arbitrarily God deals with him, no matter what he may do. (Job
9:13-24)
TEXT 9:13-24
13 GOD WILL NOT WITHDRAW HIS ANGER;
The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.
14 How much less shall I answer...
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_IF I HAD CALLED, AND HE HAD ANSWERED ME; YET WOULD I NOT BELIEVE THAT
HE HAD HEARKENED UNTO MY VOICE._
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that
he had hearkened unto my...
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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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In these verses, Job did not realise that God cared about him. Job did
not know about the events in Job 1:6-12 or Job 2:1-6. So Job did not
know that Satan (the devil) caused Job’s troubles. And Job d...
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HE BREAKETH ME... — This is one of the three passages in which this
word is found, the other two being Genesis 3:15, “It shall
_bruise_,” &c., and Psalms 139:11, “If I say the darkness shall
_cover_ m...
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אֲשֶׁר ־בִּ שְׂעָרָ֥ה יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי וְ
הִרְבָּ֖ה...
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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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For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds (m)
without cause.
(m) I am not able to feel my sins so great, as I feel the weight of
his plagues; and this he speaks to condemn his dull...
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_Without cause. That is, without my knowing the cause; or without any
crime of mine. (Challoner) --- To argue from my afflictions, that I am
a criminal, is unjust, chap. ii. 3. "Notions mistaken, reas...
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(13) If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop
under him. (14) В¶ How much less shall I answer him, and choose out
my words to reason with him? (15) Whom, though I were righteous,...
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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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FOR HE BREAKETH ME WITH A TEMPEST,.... Which rises suddenly, comes
powerfully, and carries all before it irresistibly; hereby signifying
the nature of his present sore afflictions, which came upon him...
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For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without
cause.
Ver. 17. _For he breaketh me with a tempest_] _q.d._ This is one
thing also that maketh me think I am not heard, because I...
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_For he breaketh me with a tempest_ As with a tempest; that is,
unexpectedly, violently, and irrecoverably. This is the reason of his
forementioned diffidence, that even when God seemed to answer his...
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For He breaketh me with a tempest, that is, He would overwhelm Job
with a storm, should he attempt such a course, AND MULTIPLIETH MY
WOUNDS WITHOUT CAUSE, in spite of Job's innocence He would pursue h...
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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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14-21 Job is still righteous in his own eyes, ch. Job 32:1, and this
answer, though it sets forth the power and majesty of God, implies
that the question between the afflicted and the Lord of provide...
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This is the reason of his foregoing diffidence, that even when God
seemed to answer him in words, yet the course of his actions towards
him was of a quite contrary nature and tendency. WITH A TEMPEST;...
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Job 9:17 crushes H7779 (H8799) tempest H8183 multiplies H7235 (H8689)
wounds H6482 cause H2600
For he -...
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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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_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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Ezekiel 13:13; Isaiah 28:17; Jeremiah 23:19; Job 1:14; Job 16:14;...
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Breaketh — Unexpectedly, violently, and irrecoverably. Cause — Not
simply without any desert of his, but without any special cause of
such singular afflictions; and peculiar and extraordinary guilt, s...