Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Job 9:33
Neither is there. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "Oh that there were".
any Daysman. any umpire, arbiter, or mediator. In Job's case He was found in Elihu; in ours, in Christ.
Neither is there. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "Oh that there were".
any Daysman. any umpire, arbiter, or mediator. In Job's case He was found in Elihu; in ours, in Christ.
Verse Job 9:33. _NEITHER IS THERE ANY DAY'S-MAN_] בינינו מוכיח _beyneynu_ _mochiach_, a _reprover, arguer_, or _umpire between us_. DAY'S-MAN, in our law, means an arbitrator, or umpire between party...
NEITHER IS THERE ANY DAYSMAN - Margin, One that should argue, or, umpire. The word daysman in English means ” “an umpire or arbiter, a mediator.” Webster. Why such a man is called a daysman I do not k...
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....
_any daysman_ i. e. any umpire, or, arbiter. The word possibly comes from the Lat. _diem dicere_, to fix a day for hearing a cause. For what art thou That mak'st thyself his dayes-man to prolong Th...
The preceding verses described how unavailing all Job's efforts were to make out his innocence in the face of the fixed resolution of God to hold him guilty. Now Job comes back to what is the real dif...
ANY DAY'S-MAN— _There is no one who may judge between us; who may lay his hand,_ &c. Houbigant. The laying the hand on both parties, implies a coercive power to enforce the execution of his decrees. T...
4. There is no mediator between the man and his creator. (Job 9:32-35) TEXT 9:32-35 32 FOR HE IS NOT A MAN, AS I AM, THAT I SHOULD ANSWER HIM, That we should come together in judgment. 33 There is...
_NEITHER IS THERE ANY DAYSMAN BETWIXT US, THAT MIGHT LAY HIS HAND UPON US BOTH._ Daysman between us, that might lay his hand upon us both - mediator or umpire х_ MOWKIYACH_ (H3198), an arbitrator, fr...
9:33 umpire (b-5) Or 'mediator.'...
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...
DAYSMAN] an Old English word meaning 'umpire,' or 'arbitrator'; one who mediates between two parties. 33-35. Translate (with Cox): 'There is no arbiter between us to lay his hand upon us both, who wou...
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...
This is a wonderful passage. Job wanted someone, like a lawyer, to help him to speak to God. These verses describe Jesus’ work (1 Timothy 2:5). Jesus is God (Hebrews 1:3). But he became a man (Hebrew...
FOR HE IS NOT A MAN, AS I AM... — Is not that confession, if we believe that such a daysman as Job longed for has been given, itself a witness that it came from God, and was given by God? The light th...
לֹ֣א יֵשׁ ־בֵּינֵ֣ינוּ מֹוכִ֑יחַ יָשֵׁ֖ת יָדֹ֣ו...
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...
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, (a) [that] might lay his hand upon us both. (a) Who might make an accord between God and me, speaking of impatience, and yet confessing God to be just in puni...
_There. Septuagint, "O that an umpire, ( or mediator) were between us, and one arguing and giving ear in the midst of both!"_...
(28) I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. (29) If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? (30) If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;...
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...
NEITHER IS THERE ANY DAYSMAN BETWIXT US,.... Or "one that reproves" q; who upon hearing a cause reproves him that is found guilty, or is blameworthy, or has done injury to another; but there is no suc...
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, [that] might lay his hand upon us both. Ver. 33. _Neither is there any daysman betwixt us_] Heb. Any arguer or reprover, as Genesis 31:24. We call him an umpi...
_For he is not a man as I am_ But one infinitely superior to me in majesty and power, wisdom and justice. _That I should answer him _ That I should presume to debate my cause with him, or answer his a...
JOB INSISTS THAT GOD VISITS ALSO THE RIGHTEOUS WITH AFFLICTION...
Neither is there any daysman, arbitrator or mediator, BETWIXT US THAT MIGHT LAY HIS HAND UPON US BOTH, acting as umpire between God and Job to settle his case; for God was both accuser and judge....
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...
ANY DAYSMAN: _ Heb._ one that should argue. Or, Umpire...
Job desires the services of someone who could become. mediator between himself and God. This cry for an umpire or mediator will be ultimately fulfilled in Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 2:5)....
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...
DAYSMAN; or, _a reprover_; or, _a judge_ or _umpire_, whose office was to reprove the guilty person. _That might lay his hand upon us both_, i.e. use his power and authority to appoint the time and pl...
Job 9:33 Nor H3426 mediator H3198 (H8688) lay H7896 (H8799) hand H3027 both H8147 is there -...
Job 9:32 I. This desire of Job's is to be studied, not merely as the experience of an individual under peculiar circumstances, but as a _human_experience, the germs of which are in man as man; in oth...
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...
_Neither is there any daysman._ THE DAYSMAN At this point of the poem we are seeing Job at his worst. He has become desperate under his accumulated miseries. In this chapter Job answers Bildad. He ad...
_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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 9:32 THERE IS NO ARBITER. Job criticizes his friends for not comforting him. He longs for an impartial party to hear his case (see v. Job 9:33,...
_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...
1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:2; 1 Kings 3:16; 1 Samuel 2:25; Job 9:19;...
Days — man — Or, umpire. Lay his hand — Order and govern us in pleading; and oblige us to stand to his decision. Our Lord Jesus is now the blessed days — man, who has mediated between heaven and earth...