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Verse Job 9:13. _IF GOD WILL NOT WITHDRAW HIS ANGER_] It is of no use
to contend with God; he cannot be successfully resisted; all his
opposers must perish....
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IF GOD WILL NOT WITHDRAW HIS ANGER - That is, if he perseveres in
inflicting punishment. He will not turn aside his displeasure by any
opposition or resistance made to him.
THE PROUD HELPERS - Margin,...
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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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GOD. Hebrew. _Eloah_. App-4.
WITHDRAW. avert.
HELPERS. confederates....
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_if God will not withdraw_ Rather, GOD WITHDRAWS NOT. His fury is
persistent and inexorable till it has accomplished its purpose, cf.
ch. Job 23:13-14.
_the proud helpers do stoop_ Rather, THE HELPERS...
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From the operation of this terrible force in the physical world Job
passes on to describe its display among creatures, and to shew how it
paralyses and crushes them....
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IF GOD WILL NOT WITHDRAW HIS ANGER— _He is not a God who will
restrain his anger; they stoop beneath him, who have surrounded
themselves with strength: i.e._ his majesty is most dreadful and
inaccessi...
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2. Arbitrarily God deals with him, no matter what he may do. (Job
9:13-24)
TEXT 9:13-24
13 GOD WILL NOT WITHDRAW HIS ANGER;
The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.
14 How much less shall I answer...
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_IF GOD WILL NOT WITHDRAW HIS ANGER, THE PROUD HELPERS DO STOOP UNDER
HIM._
If God - or else, 'God will not withdraw His anger' - i:e., so long as
a mortal obstinately resists (Umbreit).
THE PROUD H...
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9:13 helpers (e-8) Lit. 'helpers of Rahab.' see ch. 26.12....
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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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RV 'God will not withdraw his anger; the helpers of Rahab do stoop
under him.' The word 'Rahab,' which means 'pride,' occurs again in Job
26:12 RV, and is there evidently applied to the raging sea. 'T...
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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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No enemy can successfully oppose God. See Psalms 2.
A MAN CANNOT ARGUE WITH GOD
V14 So, I cannot argue with God. I cannot even choose the right words
to say to him. V15 Even if I am innocent, I cann...
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PROUD HELPERS. — Literally, _helpers of Rahab._ (See Isaiah 30:7;
Psalms 87:4.) But whether Rahab was Egypt, or a poetical name for the
lost archangel, it is impossible to say. If the former, then the...
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אֱ֭לֹוהַּ לֹא ־יָשִׁ֣יב אַפֹּ֑ו
_תַּחְתָּ֥יו_† שָׁ֝חֲח֗וּ עֹ֣זְ
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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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[If] God (g) will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers (h) do
stoop under him.
(g) God will not be appeased for anything that man can say for himself
for his justification.
(h) That is, all the...
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God. Protestants, " If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud
helpers do stoop under him." Septuagint, "For he is not turned aside
by wrath;" (or Roman edition) "God, whose anger cannot be averted...
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(13) If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop
under him. (14) В¶ How much less shall I answer him, and choose out
my words to reason with him? (15) Whom, though I were righteous,...
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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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[IF] GOD WILL NOT WITHDRAW HIS ANGER,.... Or "God will not withdraw
his anger" m; he is angry, or at least seems to be angry with his own
people, in their apprehension, when he afflicts them and hides...
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Job 9:13 [If] God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do
stoop under him.
Ver. 13. _If God will not withdraw his anger_] That is, of his own
free accord forbear to execute his judgments, t...
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_If God will not withdraw his anger_ There is nothing in the Hebrew
for _if_. The words, literally rendered, are, _God will not withdraw
his anger;_ or, continuing the interrogation, used twice in the...
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If God will not withdraw His anger, rather, affirmatively, "He will
not cause it to return," He will not recall it, THE PROUD HELPERS DO
STOOP UNDER HIM, literally, "the helpers of Rahab cringe before...
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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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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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THE PROUD HELPERS:
_ Heb._ helpers of pride, or strength...
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"BENEATH HIM CROUCH THE HELPERS OF RAHAB": "The reference is to the
Babylonian creation myth in which Markduk defeated Tiamat and then
captured her helpers. God in His anger and power was able to conq...
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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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i.e. If God resolve not to withdraw his rod and stroke, the effect of
his anger. Or without _if_, which is not in the Hebrew, GOD WILL NOT
WITHDRAW HIS ANGER, i.e. not forbear to punish, neither becau...
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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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_Which doeth great things past finding out._
JOB’S IDEA OF WHAT GOD IS TO MANKIND
He regards the Eternal as--
I. Inscrutable.
1. In His works. “Which doeth great things past finding out.” How
great...
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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 9:13 RAHAB, like Leviathan (see Job 3:8; compare Job
7:12), is the name of a beast from the myths of
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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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Isaiah 30:7; Isaiah 31:2; Isaiah 31:3; James 4:6; James 4:7;...
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Helpers — Those who undertake to uphold and defend one another
against him. Stoop — Fall and are crushed by him....