This is one thing] RV 'It is all one.' Apparently he means, 'It makes no difference whether I live or die.' God destroys indiscriminately both innocent and guilty. This directly controverts the friends' view (Job 8:20). There is no such thing as a moral government of the world.
Verse Job 9:22. _THIS_ IS _ONE_ THING] My own observation shows, that in the course of providence the righteous and the wicked have an equal lot; for when any sudden calamity comes, the _innocent_ and...
THIS IS ONE THING, THEREFORE I SAID IT - This may mean, “it is all the same thing. It makes no difference whether a man be righteous or wicked. God treats them substantially alike; he has one and the...
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 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...
THE WICKED. a lawless one. Hebrew. _rasha,_ App-44....
This verse reads, It is all one, therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked, that is, indiscriminately. Here there is not only the former statement of ch. 7. that the destiny of man...
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....
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...
_THIS IS ONE THING, THEREFORE I SAID IT, HE DESTROYETH THE PERFECT AND THE WICKED._ One thing - translate 'It is all one; whether perfect or wicked-He destroyeth.' This was the point Job maintained a...
9:22 he (a-8) i.e. God....
In this life, good people often suffer. But God is not responsible for their troubles. Sometimes the devil caused the troubles (as in Job 2:7). Sometimes evil people are responsible. And sometimes nat...
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...
אַחַ֗ת הִ֥יא עַל ־כֵּ֥ן אָמַ֑רְתִּי תָּ֥ם וְ֝
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...
This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He destroyeth the (p) perfect and the wicked. (p) If God punishes according to his justice, he will destroy them who are counted perfect as well as them...
Consumeth. Ecclesiastes ix. 2. (Haydock) --- This principle is incontrovertible. (Worthington) --- I do not retract it. (Menochius) --- The misery inflicted on the just, is not contrary to the goodnes...
(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...
THIS [IS] ONE [THING],.... Or "one thing [there] is" x in the world, as Jarchi adds; or "one measure", as the Targum, to good and bad men; one event alike to the righteous, and to the wicked, Ecclesia...
This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. Ver. 22. _This is one thing, therefore I say it_] And will stand to it, though I stand alone; this being the on...
_This one thing_ In the other things which you have spoken of, God's greatness, power, and justice, I do not contend with you; but this one thing I do, and must affirm against you. _Therefore I said i...
JOB INSISTS THAT GOD VISITS ALSO THE RIGHTEOUS WITH AFFLICTION...
This is one thing, it is all one, or, it makes no difference whether a person is innocent or guilty; THEREFORE I SAID IT, HE DESTROYETH THE PERFECT AND THE WICKED; this statement Job feels constrained...
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...
Job has reached the conclusion that it makes no difference to God, God destroys both the innocent and the guilty. In fact, in His impersonal concern, God mocks the innocent person who dies suddenly in...
22-24 Job touches briefly upon the main point now in dispute. His friends maintained that those who are righteous and good, always prosper in this world, and that none but the wicked are in misery an...
In the other things which you have spoken of God's greatness, justice, &c., I do not contend with you, but this one thing I do and must affirm against you. THEREFORE I SAID IT; I did not utter it rash...
Job 9:22 one H259 say H559 (H8804) destroys H3615 (H8764) blameless H8535 wicked H7563 He destroyeth -...
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...
_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...
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 ...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 9:22 Job argues that, from what one can observe in the world, BOTH THE BLAMELESS AND THE WICKED are destroyed, both fall prey to DISASTER, and both suffer injustice. All of these thing...
_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...
Ecclesiastes 9:1; Ezekiel 21:3; Ezekiel 21:4; Luke 13:2...
This — In the other things which you have spoken of God's greatness, and justice, I do not contend with you, but this one thing I do, and must affirm against you. He — God sends afflictions promiscuou...