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Verse Job 9:8. _AND TREADETH UPON THE WAVES_] This is a very majestic
image. God not only walks upon the waters, but when the sea runs
mountains high, he steps from billow to billow in his almighty an...
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WHICH ALONE SPREADETH OUT THE HEAVENS - As an expanse, or a curtain;
see the notes at Isaiah 40:22.
AND TREADETH UPON THE WAVES OF THE SEA - Margin, “Heights.” So it
is in the Hebrew. It means the “hi...
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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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WAVES OF THE SEA. The celebrated Mugah Codex (the earliest quoted in
the _Massorah_ itself), App-30, reads "cloud": i.e. thick cloud....
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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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AND TREADETH UPON THE WAVES OF THE SEA— Mr. Heath (following the
reading of the Hebrew found in a correct copy) agrees with Houbigant
in rendering this, _who treadeth on the heights of the clouds;_ wh...
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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 ALONE SPREADETH OUT THE HEAVENS, AND TREADETH UPON THE WAVES OF
THE SEA._
Spreadeth out. "He stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in" (Isaiah 40:2...
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9:8 waves (c-12) Or 'extent.'...
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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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WAVES OF THE SEA. — Literally, _high place of the sea:_ the sea when
and where it runs _mountains high._ The various physical phenomena of
earthquake, eclipse, and hurricane are here described as the...
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נֹטֶ֣ה שָׁמַ֣יִם לְ בַדֹּ֑ו וְ֝
דֹורֵ֗ךְ עַל ־בָּ֥מֳתֵי יָֽם׃...
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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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_Heavens, like a tent, Psalm ciii. 2. These nations lived under tents;
(Calmet) and beholding the magnificent one which God had spread over
the heads of alol, Job, in rapture, (Haydock) wonders that h...
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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 ALONE SPREADETH OUT THE HEAVENS,.... The expanse, or what we
commonly translate "firmament"; but has its name in the Hebrew
language from its being expanded, spread, and stretched out, over the...
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Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of
the sea.
Ver. 8. _Which alone spreadeth out the heavens_] Without the help or
counsel of any other. As God was alone and by himse...
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_Which alone_ That is, by his own single power, without any other
help. _Spreadeth out the heavens_ He spread them out like a curtain,
Psalms 104:2, when he first created them, and he, in a manner, sp...
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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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WAVES:
_ Heb._ heights...
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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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ALONE, i.e. by his own single power, without any other: help.
SPREADETH OUT THE HEAVENS: he spread them out like a curtain, PSALMS
104:1,2; and he in a manner spreads them again every day, i.e. keeps...
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Job 9:8 out H5186 (H8802) heavens H8064 treads H1869 (H8802) waves
H1116 sea H3220
Which - Job 37:18; Genesis 1:6-7; Psalms 33:6, Psalms 104:2-3; Isaiah
40:22,...
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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 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...
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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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Genesis 1:6; Genesis 1:7; Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 42:5; Isaiah 44:24;
Jeremiah 10:11; Job 37:18; Job 38:11; John 6:19; Matthew 14:25;...
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Who. &c. — A farther description of a black and tempestuous season,
wherein the heavens seem to be brought down nearer to the earth.
Treadeth — Represseth and ruleth them when they rage and are
tempes...