If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? The if is better omitted: I (am treated by God, once for all, as) If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? The if is better omitted: I (am treated by God, once for all, as) wicked; why then labour I in vain (to disprove His charge). Job submits, not so much because he is convinced that God is right, as because God is powerful, and he weak (Barnes).
Verse Job 9:29. IF _I BE WICKED_] If I am the sinner you suppose me to be, in vain should I labour to counterfeit joy, and cease to complain of my sufferings....
IF I BE WICKED, WHY THEN LABOUR I IN VAIN? - The word “if,” here introduced by our translators, greatly obscures the sense. The meaning evidently is, “I am held to be guilty, and cannot answer to that...
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 again takes up his complaint, but in a quieter tone, so that he is able to imagine after all a way in which he might maintain his cause before God. He complains first of the shortness of his life....
WHY... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
_if I be wicked_ Rather, I SHALL BE GUILTY, that is, I have to be, shall be held, guilty; God has resolved so to consider me. Everywhere in these verses guilt and afflictions mean the same thing, the...
IF I BE WICKED, &C.— _I shall be esteemed as guilty; why, therefore, should I take so much pains?_ Houbigant. _Let me be condemned, why should I,_ &c. Heath....
3. He will be held guilty in spite of everything. (Job 9:25-31) TEXT 9:25-31 25 NOW MY DAYS ARE SWIFTER THAN A POST: They flee away, they see no good. 26 They are passed away as the swift ships;...
9:29 wicked, (f-6) Or 'accounted wicked.' vain? (g-13) Or 'why do I trouble myself for nothing?'...
_If_ I BE WICKED] RV 'I shall be condemned.'...
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, 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 knew that God was his judge. But Job did not think that he could defend himself. Job thought that his situation was hopeless. JOB NEEDS SOMEONE TO HELP HIM V32 God is not a man like me. I canno...
אָנֹכִ֥י אֶרְשָׁ֑ע לָמָּה ־זֶּ֝֗ה הֶ֣בֶל אִיגָֽע׃...
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...
“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 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...
[If] I be wicked, why then (x) labour I in vain? (x) Why does God not destroy me at once? thus he speaks according to the infirmity of the flesh....
_Vain. Why have I endeavoured to repress my grief in silence? God does not forbid us to complain, but only to murmur. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "Since I am wicked, why did I not die?" (Haydock) --- Sho...
(28) I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. (29) If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? (30) If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;...
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...
[IF] I BE WICKED, WHY THEN LABOUR I IN VAIN?] If he was that wicked person, that hypocrite, Bildad and his other friends took him to be, it was in vain for him to make his supplications to God, as the...
Job 9:29 [If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? Ver. 29. _If I be wicked_] Heb. I am wicked, _sc._ in your thoughts, and you have so earnestly and effectually affirmed it, and confirmed it, tha...
_If I be wicked, &c_. The Hebrew, אנכי ארשׁע _anochi ershang_, is, _I am_, or, _I shall be wicked_, or _guilty_, without any supposition. That is, Whether I be holy or wicked, if I dispute with thee I...
If I be wicked, rather, "I am to be guilty," declared to be wicked by the decree of God, WHY, THEN, LABOR I IN VAIN? It was a useless endeavor on his part trying to appear innocent; he felt that he wa...
JOB INSISTS THAT GOD VISITS ALSO THE RIGHTEOUS WITH AFFLICTION...
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...
25-35 What little need have we of pastimes, and what great need to redeem time, when it runs on so fast towards eternity! How vain the enjoyments of time, which we may quite lose while yet time conti...
Heb. _I shall be wicked_, or _guilty_, to wit, before thee. Whether I be holy or wicked, if I dispute with thee, I shall be found guilty. Or thus, _I shall be used like a wicked man_, and punished as...
Job 9:29 condemned H7561 (H8799) labor H3021 (H8799) vain H1892 Job 9:22,...
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 9:5. _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...
_If I say, I will forget my complaint._ CONCERNING JOB’S SUFFERINGS I. As too great to render any efforts of self-consolation effective. Three things are suggested. 1. A valuable power of mind. The...
_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...
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...
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...
Jeremiah 2:35; Job 10:14; Job 10:7; Job 21:16; Job 21:17;...
I shall — I shall be used like a wicked man still. Why — Why then should I comfort myself with vain hopes of deliverance, as thou advisest me....