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Verse Job 9:3. _IF HE WILL CONTEND WITH HIM_] God is so holy, and his
law so strict, that if he will enter into judgment with his creatures,
the most upright of them cannot be justified in his sight....
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IF HE WILL CONTEND WITH HIM - That is, if God enters into a
controversy with man. If he chooses to charge crime on him, and to
hold him responsible for his deeds. The language here is taken from
court...
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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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WILL. desire to....
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_if he will contend_ Or, _if he would_; if he (man) should desire to
contend with God. "To contend" is a legal term meaning to enter a plea
with, the idea of a court or judge being in the mind of the...
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DISCOURSE: 458
THE FOLLY OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PRESUMPTION
Job 9:2. _How should man be just with God? If he will contend with
him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. He is wise in heart, and...
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IF HE WILL CONTEND— To _contend_ is a judicial term, and signifies
properly to _wage law. To answer him one of a thousand,_ signifies to
justify himself for one of the thousand crimes which shall be c...
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E. NOT GUILTYTHE CRIME OF INNOCENCEJOB'S CRY (Job 9:1, Job 10:22)
1. Man is no match before the all-powerful, all-wise God.
(Job 9:1-12)
TEXT 9:1-12
9 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,
2 Of a truth I k...
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_IF HE WILL CONTEND WITH HIM, HE CANNOT ANSWER HIM ONE OF A THOUSAND._
If he (God) will contend, with him - literally, 'deign to enter into
judgment:' 'If it were His good, pleasure х_ YACHPOTS_ (H26...
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9:3 him, (a-8) him (a-12) i.e. God....
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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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IF HE WILL] RM 'If one should desire to.'
CONTEND] argue his cause. ONE OF A THOUSAND] viz. charges against him,
or questions with which he might be entrapped....
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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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Job himself wanted to argue with God about his situation. Job
discusses this further in verses 14-20....
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אִם ־יַ֭חְפֹּץ לָ רִ֣יב עִמֹּ֑ו לֹֽא
־יַ֝עֲנֶ
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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 he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a (b)
thousand.
(b) Of a thousand things, which God could lay to his charge, man
cannot answer him one....
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_Thousand. Psalm cxlii. 2. "Woe even to the praise-worthy life of man,
if God judge without mercy." (St. Augustine) (Haydock)_...
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(1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) I know it is so of a truth:
but how should man be just with God? (3) If he will contend with him,
he cannot answer him one of a thousand. (4) He is wise in heart...
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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 HE WILL CONTEND WITH HIM,.... If God will contend with man, so
Sephorno; enter into a controversy with him, litigate and dispute the
point in law, whether he is just or not, man cannot answer to th...
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If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Ver. 3. _If he will contend with him_] If any one would be so fool
hardy, or adventurous, as to dispute with God about his judgmen...
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_If he will contend with him_ If God be pleased to contend with man,
namely, in judgment, or to debate, or plead with him; _he cannot
answer him one of a thousand_ One accusation among a thousand whic...
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If he will contend with Him, if mortal man should dare to enter into
litigation with the great God, HE CANNOT ANSWER HIM ONE OF A THOUSAND;
if man's case were brought to trial, God could and would so...
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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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"If Job was to follow the Eliphaz's urging that he 'place his cause
before God' (Job 5:8), the problem to be faced would be 'how'? Because
God had tormented Job, an upright man, how, he reasoned, coul...
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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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If God be pleased to contend (to wit, in judgment; debate or plead;
for so this word is oft used, as HOSEA 2:2, HOSEA 4:1 MICAH 6:1;
compare ISAIAH 45:9) with man....
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Job 9:3 wished H2654 (H8799) contend H7378 (H8800) answer H6030
(H8799) one H259 thousand H505
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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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_Then Job answered and said._
JOB’S ANSWER TO BILDAD
Job was utterly unaware of the circumstances under which he was
suffering. If Job had known that he was to be an example, that a great
battle was...
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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 9:3 Job does not respond further to the specifics of
Bildad’s argument. Instead he describes the difficulty of anyone
arguing a case before God (vv. Job 9:3), given his power and stren...
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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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1 John 1:8; 1 John 3:20; Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 57:16; Job 10:2;...
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One — One accusation among a thousand which God shall produce
against him....