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Job 9:7

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"Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars."

  • Job 9:7 - Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 9:7. _WHICH COMMANDETH THE SUN_] Obscures it either with clouds, with thick darkness, or with an eclipse. _SEALETH UP THE STARS._] Like the contents of a letter, wrapped up and sealed, so t...

  • Job 9:7 - Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHICH COMMANDETH THE SUN, AND IT RISETH NOT - Schultens supposes that all this is a description of the deluge - when the mountains were removed, when the fountains of the deep were broken up, and when...

  • Job 9:7 - 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...

  • Job 9:7 - 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...

  • Job 9:7 - Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • Job 9:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHICH COMMANDETH THE SUN, AND IT RISETH NOT— Bishop Warburton supposes that this alludes to the miraculous history of the people of God; such as the Egyptian darkness, and the stopping of the sun's co...

  • Job 9:7 - 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...

  • Job 9:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _WHICH COMMANDETH THE SUN, AND IT RISETH NOT; AND SEALETH UP THE STARS._ Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not - namely, in an eclipse, or the darkness that accompanies earthquakes (Job 9:6)....

  • Job 9:7 - 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...

  • Job 9:7 - 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...

  • Job 9:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND SEALETH UP THE STARS — Comp. Job 41:15. The idea of shutting up, taking away the power of, &c., is contained in the expression “sealing.”...

  • Job 9:7 - ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הָ אֹמֵ֣ר לַ֭ † חֶרֶס וְ לֹ֣א יִזְרָ֑ח וּ בְעַ֖ד כֹּוכָבִ֣ים יַחְתֹּֽם׃...

  • Job 9:7 - 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...

  • Job 9:7 - 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;...

  • Job 9:7 - 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...

  • Job 9:7 - George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Seal. So that they appear not. He alludes (Calmet) to masters confining their servants with seals, before locks were invented. (Macrobius vii. 3.) --- From these noble effects of God's power, Job tak...

  • Job 9:7 - Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Job 9:7 - 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...

  • Job 9:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHICH COMMANDETH THE SUN, AND IT RISETH NOT,.... Either he could do it if he would, by a word speaking, as he ordered it to stand still in the times of Joshua, Joshua 10:13, and caused the shadow to r...

  • Job 9:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. Ver. 7. _Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not_] God, in framing the world, began above, and wrought downward; but Job, in...

  • Job 9:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not_ Nor are the heavens less subject to his power; for neither sun nor stars can shine if he forbid them. “Bishop Warburton supposes, that this alludes to the m...

  • Job 9:7 - 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...

  • Job 9:7 - 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...

  • Job 9:7 - 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 than...

  • Job 9:7 - Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    He speaks either, 1. Of that which God can do; or rather, (as he doth in the foregoing and following instances,) 2. Of what God actually doth; and that either, 1. Ordinarily; and so he gives laws t...

  • Job 9:7 - Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 9:7 commands H559 (H8802) sun H2775 rise H2224 (H8799) seals H2856 (H8799) stars H3556 commandeth - Exodus 10:21-22; Joshua 10:12; Daniel 4:35; Amos 4:13, Amos 8:9;...

  • Job 9:7 - 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...

  • Job 9:7 - 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...

  • Job 9:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

    _Which removeth the mountains._ GOD IN NATURE I. Its almightiness is overwhelmingly grand in its manifestations. “Removeth the mountains,” etc. The whole passage impresses one with the unbounded ene...

  • Job 9:7 - 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 (Job 9:3; Job 10:2), and legal terms occur throughout the chapter (e.g., Job 9:2, Jo...

  • Job 9:7 - 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, alread...

  • Job 9:7 - 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...

  • Job 9:7 - 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...

  • Job 9:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 4:13; Amos 8:9; Daniel 4:35; Exodus 10:21; Exodus 10:22; Ezekiel 32:7; Isaiah 13:10; Job 37:7; Job 38:12; Job 38:19;...

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