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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Job 9:2

Verse Job 9:2. I know it is so of a truth] I acknowledge the general truth of the maxims you have advanced. God will not ultimately punish a righteous person, nor shall the wicked finally triumph; and though righteous before man, and truly sincere in my piety, yet I know, when compared with the immaculate holiness of God, all my righteousness is nothing.

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See also Job 9:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I KNOW IT IS SO OF A TRUTH - Job here refers, undoubtedly, to something that had been said before; but whether it is to the general strain of remark, or to some particular expression, may be doubted....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HOW. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. This is the one great question of the book. MAN. mortal man. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14. GOD. Hebrew El. App-4....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _I KNOW IT IS SO OF A TRUTH: BUT HOW SHOULD MAN BE JUST WITH GOD?_ I know it is so - that God does not "pervert justice" (Job 8:3). BUT HOW SHOULD A MAN BE JUST WITH GOD? But (even though I be sure...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job repeated here Eliphaz’s idea in Job 4:12-21. People are weak. That is, everybody does wrong things against God. Bildad had said that God would help a good man (Job 8:5). But Job knew that nobody i...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אָ֭מְנָם יָדַ֣עְתִּי כִי ־כֵ֑ן וּ מַה ־יִּצְד

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be (a) just with God? (a) Job here answers Eliphaz and Bildad's oration, touching the justice of God, and his innocency, confessing God to be infinite...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _God. Job answers both his friends, and with admirable humility acknowledges that in God's sight he is full of defects; but not of such a nature as to fall (Calmet) under the cognizance of man. I am n...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I KNOW [IT IS] SO OF A TRUTH,.... That is, that God is just, and does not pervert justice and judgment, as Bildad had observed, Job 8:3; Job was a man of great natural parts and capacity; he had a lar...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? Ver. 2. _I know it is so of a truth_] Bildad's argument was, God, who hath punished thee, is just, therefore thou art unjust. Job gr...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I know it is so of a truth_ Namely, as you say, that God must be just and righteous; that purity and uprightness are qualities belonging to him; that he cannot possibly be biased or prejudiced in jud...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I know it is so of a truth, namely, that God is righteous in all His doing, that He never perverts justice; BUT HOW SHOULD MAN, a mortal being, man in his mortality and weakness, BE JUST WITH GOD? Eve...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    with God: Or, before God...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I KNOW IT IS SO, to wit, as you say, that God is just in all his ways, that he doth ordinarily bless the righteous, and punish the wicked. BUT HOW SHOULD MAN BE JUST? Heb. _and how_, &c.? i.e. and I k...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 9:2 Truly H551 know H3045 (H8804) man H582 righteous H6663 (H8799) God H410 how -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 8:46; Job 14:3; Job 14:4; Job 25:4; Job 32:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I know — That God is just in all his ways, that he doth ordinarily bless the righteous, and punish the wicked. Before God — And I know that no man is absolutely just, if God be severe to mark what is...

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