George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 9:27
Sorrow. I cannot entirely repress it. (Calmet) --- The more I strive, (Haydock) the greater is my pain. (Menochius)
Sorrow. I cannot entirely repress it. (Calmet) --- The more I strive, (Haydock) the greater is my pain. (Menochius)
Verse Job 9:27. _I WILL FORGET MY COMPLAINT_] I will _forsake_ or _forego_ my complaining. _I will leave off my heaviness_. VULGATE, _I will_ _change my countenance _- force myself to smile, and endea...
IF I SAY, I WILL FORGET MY COMPLAINT - If I resolve that I will leave off complaining, and will be more cheerful, I find it all in vain. My fears and sorrows return, and all my efforts to be cheerful...
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....
COMPLAINT. complaining....
_my complaint_ i. e. as always, my complaining, ch. Job 7:13. _my heaviness_ lit. _my faces_, my sad mien, 1 Samuel 1:18. _comfort myself_ lit. _brighten up_, ch. Job 10:20;...
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;...
_IF I SAY, I WILL FORGET MY COMPLAINT, I WILL LEAVE OFF MY HEAVINESS, AND COMFORT MYSELF:_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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 could hardly remember the time when he was successful. And he thought that he would die soon. So his life seemed very short....
אִם ־אָ֭מְרִי אֶשְׁכְּחָ֣ה שִׂיחִ֑י אֶעֶזְבָ֖ה פָנַ֣י...
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 (u) I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]: (u) I think not to fall into these afflictions, but my sorrows bring me to these manifold infirmities, a...
(22) В¶ This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. (23) If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. (24) The earth is given into th...
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 SAY, I WILL FORGET MY COMPLAINT,.... The cause of it, the loss of his children, servants, substance, and health, and endeavour to think no more of these things, and cease complaining about them,...
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]: Ver. 27. _If I say, I will forget my complaint_] And suffer in silence, as thou, Bildad, hast advised me, Jo...
_If I say, I will forget my complaints_, &c. If I resolve within myself that I will cease complaining, and endeavour to take comfort. _I am afraid of all my sorrows_ Or, of my pains and griefs: I find...
If I say, I will forget my complaint, making an attempt to rouse himself from his stupor, I WILL LEAVE OFF MY HEAVINESS, literarily, "my countenance," that is, his gloomy and downcast look, AND COMFOR...
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...
Job had thought about trying to forget his problems and cheer up, but considered this useless, because he would still know that God is against him. Even if he were to clean himself up, he thought that...
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...
IF I SAY; if I resolve within myself. I WILL FORGET MY COMPLAINTS; I will cease complaining. MY HEAVINESS, Heb. _mine anger_; wherewith Job was charged by his friends, JOB 18:4; my angry expressions....
Job 9:27 say H559 (H8800) forget H7911 (H8799) complaint H7879 off H5800 (H8799) face H6440 smile...
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 8:18; Job 7:13; Psalms 77:2; Psalms 77:3...