Here is another description of the brevity of life. The "runner" in Job 9:25 refers to. courier, that is. fast runner with the royal messenger service. The "reed boats" made of papyrus were the speedboats of the day, and birds like eagles or the peregrine falcon can reach speeds up to 120 mph as it swoops down. There is irony here, Job is suffering day and night and yet he is complaining that life is passing by too fast.
Verse Job 9:25. _SWIFTER THAN A POST_] מני רץ _minni rats, than a runner._ The light-footed messenger or _courier_ who carries messages from place to place. _THEY FLEE AWAY_] The _Chaldee_ says, _My...
NOW MY DAYS ARE SWIFTER THAN A POST - Than a courier, runner, or racer, רוּץ _rûts_. Vulgate, _cursore_; Septuagint, δρομέως _dromeōs_, a racer. The word is not unfrequently applied to the runners...
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...
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....
POST. runner, or courier. Compare Esther 3:13; Esther 3:15....
_Now my days_ Better, AND MY DAYS under the weight of this unjust and oppressive Force (Job 9:5). _than a post_ i. e. a courier, 2 Samuel 18:22; 2 Samuel 18:24....
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;...
_NOW MY DAYS ARE SWIFTER THAN A POST: THEY FLEE AWAY, THEY SEE NO GOOD._ A post - a courier. In the wide Persian empire such couriers, on dromedaries or on foot, were employed to carry the royal comm...
A POST] RM a 'runner' with messages....
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...
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...
Job could hardly remember the time when he was successful. And he thought that he would die soon. So his life seemed very short....
SWIFTER THAN A POST. — The runner, with his messages and dispatches. He now turns away from the contemplation of God and His dealings to that of his own misery....
וְ יָמַ֣י קַ֭לּוּ מִנִּי ־רָ֑ץ בָּֽ֝רְח֗וּ לֹ
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...
“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;...
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...
_Good, of late. Hebrew, "they see no good."_...
(22) В¶ This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. (23) If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. (24) The earth is given into th...
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...
NOW MY DAYS ARE SWIFTER THAN A POST,.... Or "than a runner" a in a race, in order to obtain the prize; or than one that rides post, or runs on foot to carry a message, such as were Cushi and Ahimaaz;...
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. Ver. 25. _Now my days are swifter than a post, &c._] Not my prosperous days only (as Broughton glosseth), but the whole course o...
_Now my days_ The days of my life; _are swifter than a post_ Who rides upon swift horses; _they see no good_ I enjoy no good in them; seeing being often put for experiencing either good or evil. Thus...
Now, my days are swifter than a post, flying away more swiftly than the motion of a courier, or runner; THEY FLEE AWAY, THEY SEE NO GOOD; Job despairs of ever being released of his affliction, he has...
JOB INSISTS THAT GOD VISITS ALSO THE RIGHTEOUS WITH AFFLICTION...
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...
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...
What he had said of the calamities which God usually inflicted upon good men, he now exemplifieth in himself. MY DAYS; the days, either of my prosperity; for the time of affliction is commonly describ...
Job 9:25 days H3117 swifter H7043 (H8804) runner H7323 (H8801) away H1272 (H8804) see H7200 ...
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...
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...
_Now my days are swifter than a post. .. as the swift ships._ ILLUSTRATIONS OF LIFE I. The text teaches us the brevity of human life. “My days are swifter than a post.” They are as swift-footed messe...
_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...
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...
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...
Esther 8:14; James 4:14; Job 7:6; Job 7:7; Psalms 39:11;...
Now — What he had said of the calamities which God frequently inflicts upon good men, he now exemplifies in himself. My days — The days of my life. Post — Who rides upon swift horses. See — I enjoy no...