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Verse Job 9:10. _GREAT THINGS PAST FINDING OUT_] Great things without
end; wonders without number. - _Targum_....
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WHICH DOETH GREAT THINGS - This is almost the sentiment which had been
expressed by Eliphaz; see the notes, Job 5:9. It was evidently a
proverb, and as such was used by both Eliphaz and Job....
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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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Description of God's omnipotent power as it displays itself in the
material world.
_they know not_ Suddenly and unexpectedly, Psalms 35:8; Jeremiah
50:24....
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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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_WHICH DOETH GREAT THINGS PAST FINDING OUT; YEA, AND WONDERS WITHOUT
NUMBER._
Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without
number. Repeated from Eliphaz (Job 5:9). As much as t...
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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, 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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WHICH DOETH GREAT THINGS. — He adopts the very words his former
antagonist, Eliphaz, had used in Job 5:9....
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עֹשֶׂ֣ה גְ֭דֹלֹות עַד ־אֵ֣ין חֵ֑קֶר
וְ נִפְלָאֹ֗ות עַד ־אֵ֥ין מִסְפָּֽר׃...
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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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(5) Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth
them in his anger. (6) Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and
the pillars thereof tremble. (7) Which commandeth the sun, a...
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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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WHICH DOTH GREAT THINGS PAST FINDING OUT,.... In heaven and earth;
great as to quantity and quality, not to be thoroughly searched out so
as to tell their numbers, nor explain and express the nature o...
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Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without
number.
Ver. 10. _Which doth great things, &c._] _See Trapp on "_ Job 5:9 _"_
whence this verse is taken verbatim. If Eliphaz say t...
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_Which doeth great things_, &c. Job here says the same that Eliphaz
had said Job 5:9, and in the original, in the very same words, with
design to show his full agreement with him, touching the divine...
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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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God does great things that cannot be comprehended, works that cannot
be numbered. Compare with Job 5:9....
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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 than...
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Which words were produced by Eliphaz, JOB 5:9, (where they are
explained,) and are here repeated by Job, to show his agreement with
him therein....
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Job 9:10 does H6213 (H8802) things H1419 past H369 out H2714 wonders
H6381 (H8737) number H4557
great things - Job 5:9, Job 26:12-14, Job 37:23; Psalms 71:15, Psalms
72:18;...
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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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_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
grea...
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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 (Job 9:3; Job 10:2),
and legal terms occur throughout the chapter (e.g., Job 9:2, Jo...
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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, alread...
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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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Daniel 4:2; Daniel 4:3; Ecclesiastes 3:11; Ephesians 3:20; Exodus
15:11; Isaiah 40:26; Job 26:12; Job 37:23; Job 5:9; Psalms 136:4;...
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Doth great things, &c. — Job here says the same that Eliphaz had
said, Job 5:9, and in the original, in the very same words, with
design to shew his full agreement with him, touching the Divine
perfec...