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Job 9:34

The subject is God, not the daysman let God remove His rod, His afflictions.

his fear terrify me Or, his terror affright me. The "terror" of God is His overawing majesty, cf. ch. Job 13:21; Job 33:7, the last passage with direct reference to the present one.

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See also Job 9:34 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 9:34. _LET HIM TAKE HIS ROD AWAY_] In the Masoretic Bibles, the word שבטו _shibto_, _his rod_, is written with a large ט _teth_, as above; and as the letter in numerals stands for 9, the _Ma...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LET HIM TAKE HIS ROD AWAY FROM ME - Let him suspend my sufferings, and let us come together on equal terms. His terror now is upon me, and I can do nothing. I am oppressed, and broken down, and crushe...

  • 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

    HIS FEAR. the fear that He causes. TERRIFY. startle, or scare. Compare Job 13:21; Job 33:7....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. There is no mediator between the man and his creator. (Job 9:32-35) TEXT 9:32-35 32 FOR HE IS NOT A MAN, AS I AM, THAT I SHOULD ANSWER HIM, That we should come together in judgment. 33 There is...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _LET HIM TAKE HIS ROD AWAY FROM ME, AND LET NOT HIS FEAR TERRIFY ME:_ Rod - not here the symbol of punishment, but of power (Umbreit). Job cannot meet God on fair terms, so long as God deals with him...

  • 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

    HIS FEAR] i.e. the fear He causes, as in Exodus 23:27....

  • 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

    This is a wonderful passage. Job wanted someone, like a lawyer, to help him to speak to God. These verses describe Jesus’ work (1 Timothy 2:5). Jesus is God (Hebrews 1:3). But he became a man (Hebrew...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יָסֵ֣ר מֵ עָלַ֣י שִׁבְטֹ֑ו וְ֝ אֵמָתֹ֗ו אַֽל

  • 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...

  • 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

    LET HIM TAKE HIS ROD AWAY FROM ME,.... Not his government over him, of which the rod or sceptre is an ensign, Job did not want to be freed from that; but, his rod of affliction, or stroke, as the Targ...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: Ver. 34. _Let him take his rod away from me_] Having sufficiently set forth that he will not once offer to contend with God, he her...

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

    _Let not his fear terrify me_ The fear and dread of his majesty and justice. Let him not deal with me according to his perfect justice, but according to his grace and clemency. _Then would I speak, an...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Let Him take His rod away from me, the scourge and calamity wherewith He was smiting Job, AND LET NOT HIS FEAR TERRIFY ME, stupefying him by His majestic presence;...

  • 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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    The same word for "rod" is used in Psalms 23:4. "To David, God's rod was his defense against his enemies; for Job, God's rod brings only violence and pain" _(Strauss p. 93)._...

  • 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

    HIS FEAR; objectively so called, i.e. the fear and dread of him, of his majesty and justice. Let him not deal with me rigorously, according to his sovereign dominion and perfect justice, but according...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 9:34 take H5493 rod H7626 away H5493 (H8686) dread H367 terrify H1204 (H8762) let not -...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 9:32 THERE IS NO ARBITER. Job criticizes his friends for not comforting him. He longs for an impartial party to hear his case (see v. Job 9:33,...

  • 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

    Job 13:11; Job 13:20; Job 23:15; Job 29:2; Job 31:23;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Fear — The fear and dread of his majesty and justice. Let him not deal with me according to his perfect justice, but according to his grace and clemency....

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