George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 9:21
CHAPTER IX.
Life, under this uncertainty and affliction. (Menochius)
CHAPTER IX.
Life, under this uncertainty and affliction. (Menochius)
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...
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...
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 9:1 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...
MY SOUL. myself. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. LIFE. Hebrew. _chayai._...
I am perfect! I regard not myself, I despise my life. The speaker in Job 9:19 is God, at least it is He who uses the words, "Here I am," and "Who will set me a time?" The rest may be words of Job, i...
These three verses read as follows, If you speak of the strength of the mighty, Here I am! (saith He) If of judgment, Who will set me a time?...
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....
These verses describe what would ensue in the supposed case that God had actually responded to Job's citation. He would not listen to Job's plea but would crush him with His infinite power. The words...
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...
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...
_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...
RV 'I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.' Job now boldly asserts that he is innocent, even though it may cost him his life. 22-24. Job boldly arraigns the morality of the divine gove...
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...
In this life, good people often suffer. But God is not responsible for their troubles. Sometimes the devil caused the troubles (as in Job 2:7). Sometimes evil people are responsible. And sometimes nat...
תָּֽם ־אָ֭נִי לֹֽא ־אֵדַ֥ע נַפְשִׁ֗י אֶמְאַ֥ס...
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...
(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,...
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...
[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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
Here is another point of despair, he did not even care about himself anymore; he hated his life....
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 provide...
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...
Job 9:21 blameless H8535 know H3045 (H8799) myself H5315 despise H3988 (H8799) life H2416 yet would -...
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 justify myself._ THE FOLLY OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION One of Rev. Murray M’Cheyne’s elders was in deep darkness and distress for a few weeks, but one Sunday after the pastor’s faithful preaching he...
_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 great...
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—NOTE ON JOB 9:21 I REGARD NOT MYSELF. Job seems to be saying that he does not care whether he lives or dies. He is prepared to risk his life to find justice (Job 13:14)....
_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...
1 Corinthians 4:4; 1 John 3:20; Jeremiah 17:10; Jeremiah 17:9; Job 7:1
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,...