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Job 9:6

The reference is probably to earthquakes. The earth is conceived as a structure supported on pillars, ch. Job 38:6; Psalms 75:3. The conception was poetical; if the pillars were supposed anything actual, they were probably the roots of the great mountains which extended downwards and bore up the earth, as the part of them above the earth supported the heavens.

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See also Job 9:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 9:6. _THE PILLARS THEREOF TREMBLE._] This also refers to an earthquake, and to that _tremulous motion_ which sometimes gives warning of the approaching catastrophe, and from which this viol...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHICH SHAKETH THE EARTH OUT OF HER PLACE - This evidently refers to violent convulsions of nature, as if the earth were to be taken away. Objects on the earth’s surface become displaced, and convulsio...

  • 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 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE PILLARS THEREOF TREMBLE— The image is taken from a man in so great fear, that all his limbs tremble and shake like a leaf....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _WHICH SHAKETH THE EARTH OUT OF HER PLACE, AND THE PILLARS THEREOF TREMBLE._ Which shaketh the earth ... pillar's thereof tremble. The earth is regarded, poetically, as resting on pillars, which trem...

  • 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

    The v. describes an earthquake. The roots of the mountains were thought of as pillars supporting the earth: cp. Job 26:11; Psalms 75:3....

  • 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

    Some people may think that they are strong or powerful. But God is much more powerful than any person. The Bible says that God made everything (Genesis chapter 1). He made our wonderful world. He plac...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַ מַּרְגִּ֣יז אֶ֭רֶץ מִ מְּקֹומָ֑הּ וְ֝ עַמּ

  • 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

    Which (c) shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. (c) He declares the infirmity of man, by the mighty and incomprehensible power that is in God, showing what he could do...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Pillars. These are represented as fixed in the waters, Proverbs viii. 29., and Psalm xxvii. 16., &c._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • 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

    WHICH SHAKETH THE EARTH OUT OF HER PLACE,.... Can do it, and will do it at the last day, when it shall be utterly broken down, clean dissolved, and reel to and fro like a drunkard, and be removed as a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. Ver. 6. _Which shaketh the earth out of her place_] By mighty earthquakes, dislocating the earth, some part of it; for the w...

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

    _Which removeth the mountains_ He proceeds to give particular evidences of the divine power and wisdom, which he mentioned Job 9:4. _And they_ That is, the mountains, to which he figuratively ascribes...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Which shaketh the earth out of her place, causing not only the mountains, but the entire earth to tremble in mighty earthquakes, AND THE PILLARS THEREOF TREMBLE, its very foundations are rocked and sh...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE EARTH, i.e. great portions of it, by earthquakes, or by removing islands, which sometimes hath been done. THE PILLARS THEREOF, i.e. the strength or the strongest parts of it, the mountains, yea, t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 9:6 shakes H7264 (H8688) earth H776 place H4725 pillars H5982 tremble H6426 (H8691) shaketh -...

  • 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

    _Which removeth the mountains._ GOD IN NATURE I. Its almightiness is overwhelmingly grand in its manifestations. “Removeth the mountains,” etc. The whole passage impresses one with the unbounded ene...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 ...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 9:3 Job does not respond further to the specifics of Bildad’s argument. Instead he describes the difficulty of anyone arguing a case before God (vv. Job 9:3), given his power and stren...

  • 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

    1 Samuel 2:8; Haggai 2:21; Haggai 2:6; Hebrews 12:26; Isaiah 13:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The earth — Great portions of it, by earthquakes, or by removing islands. Pillars — The deep and inward parts of it, which like pillars supported those parts that appear to our view....

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