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Job 9:29

if I be wicked Rather, I shall be guilty, that is, I have to be, shall be held, guilty; God has resolved so to consider me. Everywhere in these verses guilt and afflictions mean the same thing, the one being the sign of the other.

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See also Job 9:29 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 9:29. IF _I BE WICKED_] If I am the sinner you suppose me to be, in vain should I labour to counterfeit joy, and cease to complain of my sufferings....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IF I BE WICKED, WHY THEN LABOUR I IN VAIN? - The word “if,” here introduced by our translators, greatly obscures the sense. The meaning evidently is, “I am held to be guilty, and cannot answer to that...

  • 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 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....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WHY... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IF I BE WICKED, &C.— _I shall be esteemed as guilty; why, therefore, should I take so much pains?_ Houbigant. _Let me be condemned, why should I,_ &c. Heath....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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;...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _IF I BE WICKED, WHY THEN LABOUR I IN VAIN?_ If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? The if is better omitted: I (am treated by God, once for all, as) IF I BE WICKED, WHY THEN LABOUR I IN VAIN? Th...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    9:29 wicked, (f-6) Or 'accounted wicked.' vain? (g-13) Or 'why do I trouble myself for nothing?'...

  • 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

    _If_ I BE WICKED] RV 'I shall be condemned.'...

  • 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

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אָנֹכִ֥י אֶרְשָׁ֑ע לָמָּה ־זֶּ֝֗ה הֶ֣בֶל אִיגָֽע׃...

  • 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

    [If] I be wicked, why then (x) labour I in vain? (x) Why does God not destroy me at once? thus he speaks according to the infirmity of the flesh....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Vain. Why have I endeavoured to repress my grief in silence? God does not forbid us to complain, but only to murmur. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "Since I am wicked, why did I not die?" (Haydock) --- Sho...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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;...

  • 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

    [IF] I BE WICKED, WHY THEN LABOUR I IN VAIN?] If he was that wicked person, that hypocrite, Bildad and his other friends took him to be, it was in vain for him to make his supplications to God, as the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Job 9:29 [If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? Ver. 29. _If I be wicked_] Heb. I am wicked, _sc._ in your thoughts, and you have so earnestly and effectually affirmed it, and confirmed it, tha...

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

    _If I be wicked, &c_. The Hebrew, אנכי ארשׁע _anochi ershang_, is, _I am_, or, _I shall be wicked_, or _guilty_, without any supposition. That is, Whether I be holy or wicked, if I dispute with thee I...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB INSISTS THAT GOD VISITS ALSO THE RIGHTEOUS WITH AFFLICTION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    If I be wicked, rather, "I am to be guilty," declared to be wicked by the decree of God, WHY, THEN, LABOR I IN VAIN? It was a useless endeavor on his part trying to appear innocent; he felt that he wa...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Heb. _I shall be wicked_, or _guilty_, to wit, before thee. Whether I be holy or wicked, if I dispute with thee, I shall be found guilty. Or thus, _I shall be used like a wicked man_, and punished as...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 9:29 condemned H7561 (H8799) labor H3021 (H8799) vain H1892 Job 9:22,...

  • 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

    _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...

  • 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

    Jeremiah 2:35; Job 10:14; Job 10:7; Job 21:16; Job 21:17;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I shall — I shall be used like a wicked man still. Why — Why then should I comfort myself with vain hopes of deliverance, as thou advisest me....

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