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Verse Job 9:21. THOUGH _I_ WERE _PERFECT_] Had I the fullest
conviction that, in every thought, word, and deed, I were blameless
before him, yet I would not plead this; nor would I think it any
securi...
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THOUGH I WERE PERFECT - The same mode of expression occurs here again.
“I perfect! I would not know it, or recognize it. If this were my
view, and God judged otherwise, I would seem to be ignorant of...
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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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MY SOUL. myself. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.
LIFE. Hebrew. _chayai._...
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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....
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DISCOURSE: 459
THE EVIL OF A SELF-JUSTIFYING SPIRIT
Job 9:20. _If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I
say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. Though I were
perfect, ye...
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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...
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_THOUGH I WERE PERFECT, YET WOULD I NOT KNOW MY SOUL: I WOULD DESPISE
MY LIFE._
Though I were perfect, yet would not know my soul - literally (here
and in Job 9:20), 'I perfect! I should not know my...
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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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תָּֽם ־אָ֭נִי לֹֽא ־אֵדַ֥ע נַפְשִׁ֗י
אֶמְאַ֥ס חַיָּֽי׃...
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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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CHAPTER IX.
_ Life, under this uncertainty and affliction. (Menochius)_...
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(13) If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop
under him. (14) В¶ How much less shall I answer him, and choose out
my words to reason with him? (15) Whom, though I were righteous,...
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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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[THOUGH] I [WERE] PERFECT,.... Really and truly so, not conscious of
any sin in thought, word, or deed; this is only a case supposed:
[YET] WOULD I NOT KNOW MY SOUL; I would not own myself to be so b...
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Job 9:21 [Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I
would despise my life.
Ver. 21. _Though I were perfect_] That is, of an unblameable
conversation, yet could not I know mine own s...
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_Though I were perfect_, &c. Hebrew, תם אני, _tam ani, the
perfect I, would not know my soul_ Namely, _myself_ as the word
נפשׁ, _nephesh_, is rendered, Esther 4:13; or, _my heart_, or
_spirit._ That...
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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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Here is another point of despair, he did not even care about himself
anymore; he hated his life....
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14-21 Job is still righteous in his own eyes, ch. Job 32:1, and this
answer, though it sets forth the power and majesty of God, implies
that the question between the afflicted and the Lord of providen...
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i.e. Though God should acquit me in judgment, and pronounce me perfect
or righteous, YET WOULD I NOT KNOW, i.e. regard or value, (as that
word is oft used,)_ my soul_, i.e. my life; as the soul freque...
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Job 9:21 blameless H8535 know H3045 (H8799) myself H5315 despise H3988
(H8799) life H2416
yet would - Psalms 139:23-24; Proverbs 28:26; Jeremiah 17:9-10; 1
Corinthians 4:4; 1 John 3:20
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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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1 Corinthians 4:4; 1 John 3:20; Jeremiah 17:10; Jeremiah 17:9; Job
7:15; Job 7:16; Job 7:21; Proverbs 28:26; Psalms 139:23; Psalms 139:24...
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Perfect — If I should think myself perfect, yet I would not know,
not acknowledge, my soul; I could not own nor plead before God the
integrity of my soul, but would only make supplication to my judge,...