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Verse Job 9:27. _I WILL FORGET MY COMPLAINT_] I will _forsake_ or
_forego_ my complaining. _I will leave off my heaviness_. VULGATE, _I
will_ _change my countenance _- force myself to smile, and endea...
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IF I SAY, I WILL FORGET MY COMPLAINT - If I resolve that I will leave
off complaining, and will be more cheerful, I find it all in vain. My
fears and sorrows return, and all my efforts to be cheerful...
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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 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....
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COMPLAINT. complaining....
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_my complaint_ i. e. as always, my complaining, ch. Job 7:13.
_my heaviness_ lit. _my faces_, my sad mien, 1 Samuel 1:18.
_comfort myself_ lit. _brighten up_, ch. Job 10:20;...
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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;...
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_IF I SAY, I WILL FORGET MY COMPLAINT, I WILL LEAVE OFF MY HEAVINESS,
AND COMFORT MYSELF:_
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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 could hardly remember the time when he was successful. And he
thought that he would die soon. So his life seemed very short....
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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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אִם ־אָ֭מְרִי אֶשְׁכְּחָ֣ה שִׂיחִ֑י
אֶעֶזְבָ֖ה פָנַ֣י...
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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 (u) I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my
heaviness, and comfort [myself]:
(u) I think not to fall into these afflictions, but my sorrows bring
me to these manifold infirmities, a...
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_Sorrow. I cannot entirely repress it. (Calmet) --- The more I strive,
(Haydock) the greater is my pain. (Menochius)_...
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(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...
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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 I SAY, I WILL FORGET MY COMPLAINT,.... The cause of it, the loss of
his children, servants, substance, and health, and endeavour to think
no more of these things, and cease complaining about them,...
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If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness,
and comfort [myself]:
Ver. 27. _If I say, I will forget my complaint_] And suffer in
silence, as thou, Bildad, hast advised me, Jo...
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_If I say, I will forget my complaints_, &c. If I resolve within
myself that I will cease complaining, and endeavour to take comfort.
_I am afraid of all my sorrows_ Or, of my pains and griefs: I find...
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If I say, I will forget my complaint, making an attempt to rouse
himself from his stupor, I WILL LEAVE OFF MY HEAVINESS, literarily,
"my countenance," that is, his gloomy and downcast look, AND COMFOR...
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JOB INSISTS THAT GOD VISITS ALSO THE RIGHTEOUS WITH AFFLICTION...
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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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Job had thought about trying to forget his problems and cheer up, but
considered this useless, because he would still know that God is
against him. Even if he were to clean himself up, he thought that...
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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...
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IF I SAY; if I resolve within myself. I WILL FORGET MY COMPLAINTS; I
will cease complaining. MY HEAVINESS, Heb. _mine anger_; wherewith Job
was charged by his friends, JOB 18:4; my angry expressions....
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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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_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...
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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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Jeremiah 8:18; Job 7:13; Psalms 77:2; Psalms 77:3...