They are passed away as the swift ships, sweeping past like vessels of bulrush, known for their lightness and swiftness; as the eagle that hasteth to the prey, swooping down upon it with almost incredible speed. Thus Job illustrates the hasty flight of his life.
Verse Job 9:26. _AS THE SWIFT SHIPS_] אניות אבה _oniyoth ebeh_. _Ships_ _of desire_, or _ships of Ebeh_, says our _margin_; perhaps more correctly, _inflated ships_, the sails bellying out with a fair...
THEY ARE PASSED AWAY AS THE SWIFT SHIPS - Margin, Ships of desire; or ships of Ebeh. Hebrew אבה אניה _'onı̂yâh_ _'êbeh_. Vulgate, _Naves poma portantes_. Septuagint, “Is there any track left by ship...
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....
SWIFT SHIPS. ships of _ebeh._ Hence vessels of bulrush _(eb)_. vessels of desire _('abeh),_ i.e. desiring to reach their haven; vessels of enmity _('eybah),_ i.e. pirate vessels; or vessels of the Nil...
_the swift ships the ships of reed_. These skiffs, constructed of a wooden keel and the rest of reeds, are the "vessels of bulrushes" of Isaiah 18:2. They carried but one or two persons, and being lig...
AS THE SWIFT SHIPS, &C.— There are but two places that I remember, says Mr. Peters, in the book of Job, where there is any allusion to navigation. One in the present passage, where Job compares the co...
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;...
_THEY ARE PASSED AWAY AS THE SWIFT SHIPS: AS THE EAGLE THAT HASTETH TO THE PREY._ Swift ships, х_ 'ªNIYOWT_ (H591) _ 'EEBEH_ (H16)] - rather, canoes of reeds, or papyrus-skiffs, used on the Nile, swi...
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...
SWIFT SHIPS] Heb. 'ships of reed,' light boats made from the papyrus reed, and very swift....
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....
SWIFT SHIPS. — What is meant by the swift ships, or ships of Desire, no one knows. Literally, _ships of Eveh,_ probably a proper name, and perhaps referring to a particular kind of boat in use on the...
חָ֭לְפוּ עִם ־אֳנִיֹּ֣ות אֵבֶ֑ה כְּ֝ נֶ֗שֶׁר...
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...
_Carrying. Hebrew literally, "of desire," belonging to one person, or full of goods, which he desires to carry quickly to market. (Menochius) --- Chaldean agrees with us. But most interpreters var. Pa...
(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...
THEY ARE PASSED AWAY AS THE SWIFT SHIPS,.... Those that are lightest built, and run swiftest. Bar Tzemach thinks such vessels as are rowed with oars are meant, which may be called "ships of will or de...
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey. Ver. 26. _They are passed away as the swift ships_] Heb. They are changed (gliding away insensibly) as the ships of d...
_As the swift ships_ Hebrew, ships of desire; that is, such as are longed for, and long to be at their destined port, and crowd all the sail they can for that purpose. Or, as in the Chaldee paraphrase...
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...
SWIFT SHIPS: _ Heb._ ships of desire. Or, ships of Ebeh...
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...
SWIFT SHIPS, Heb. _ships of desire_; which make great haste, as if they longed for their desired haven, as it is called, PSALMS 107:30. Or, ships of pleasure; which sail more swiftly than ships of gre...
Job 9:26 pass H2498 (H8804) like H5973 swift H16 ships H591 eagle H5404 swooping H2907 (H8799) prey...
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...
_Now my days are swifter than a post. .. as the swift ships._ ILLUSTRATIONS OF LIFE I. The text teaches us the brevity of human life. “My days are swifter than a post.” They are as swift-footed messe...
_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...
2 Samuel 1:23; Habakkuk 1:8; Jeremiah 4:13; Job 39:27; Lamentatio
Eagle — Which flies swiftly, especially when in the sight of his prey. See here how swift the motion of time is! It is always upon the wing, hastening to its period. What little need have we of past —...