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Verse Job 9:4. HE IS _WISE IN HEART, AND MIGHTY IN STRENGTH_] By his
infinite knowledge he searches out and sees all things, and by his
almighty power he can punish all delinquencies. He that rebels a...
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HE IS WISE IN HEART - Herder renders this,
Even the wise and the powerful,
Who hath withstood him and prospered?
But the more common interpretation is to refer it to God. The meaning
of Job appears...
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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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WHO... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. Compare 2 Chronicles
36:13.Isaiah 48:4....
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_wise in heart_ i. e. in _mind_, corresponding to "mighty in power."
_hardened himself_ Probably _hardened_his neck, i. e. braved him,
Proverbs 29:1.
_hath prospered_ lit. _been safe_, or as we say,...
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DISCOURSE: 458
THE FOLLY OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PRESUMPTION
Job 9:2. _How should man be just with God? If he will contend with
him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. He is wise in heart, and...
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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...
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_HE IS WISE IN HEART, AND MIGHTY IN STRENGTH: WHO HATH HARDENED
HIMSELF AGAINST HIM, AND HATH PROSPERED?_
He is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Hebrew, 'Wise in heart
(understanding)! And might...
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9:4 peace? (b-18) Or 'hath prospered.'...
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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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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...
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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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_Resisted. Hebrew and Septuagint, "hardened himself against him."_...
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(1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) I know it is so of a truth:
but how should man be just with God? (3) If he will contend with him,
he cannot answer him one of a thousand. (4) He is wise in heart...
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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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[HE IS] WISE IN HEART,.... Originally, essentially, truly, really, and
perfectly so; he is the only, and the all wise God; his understanding
is infinite; he is able to traverse all the schemes of men,...
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Job 9:4 [He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath
hardened [himself] against him, and hath prospered?
Ver. 4. _He is wise in heart and mighty in strength_] And must
therefore needs be a...
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_He is wise in heart_ He is infinitely wise, and searcheth all men's
hearts and ways, and discovers a multitude of sins, which men's
short-sighted eyes cannot see; and therefore can charge them with
i...
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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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He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; those are two outstanding
attributes of God. WHO HATH HARDENED HIMSELF AGAINST HIM, stiffening
his neck in foolish opposition, bidding Him defiance, AND HAT...
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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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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...
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WISE IN HEART; either,
1. Really and profoundly wise; or,
2. Wise in his mind or understanding, which in Hebrew is oft called
_the heart_, as PROVERBS 2:10, PROVERBS 6:32 HOSEA 4:11, because the
Hebr...
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Job 9:4 wise H2450 heart H3824 mighty H533 strength H3581 hardened
H7185 (H8689) prospered H7999 (H8799)
wise in
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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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_Who hath hardened himself against God, and prospered?_
HARDENED AGAINST GOD
This passage intimates--
I. That appeals are addressed by God to men in order to bring them
into allegiance to Him. The...
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_Then Job answered and said._
JOB’S ANSWER TO BILDAD
Job was utterly unaware of the circumstances under which he was
suffering. If Job had known that he was to be an example, that a great
battle was...
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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—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...
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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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1 Corinthians 10:22; Daniel 2:20; Daniel 4:34; Daniel 5:20;...
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He — He is infinitely wise, and searcheth all mens hearts and ways,
and discovers a multitude of sins which mens short sighted — eyes
cannot see; and therefore can charge them with innumerable evils,...