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Job 9:28
I am afraid of all my sorrows, he is once more forced to shudder with pain; I know that Thou wilt not hold me innocent, that God would not declare him guiltless.
I am afraid of all my sorrows, he is once more forced to shudder with pain; I know that Thou wilt not hold me innocent, that God would not declare him guiltless.
Verse Job 9:28. _I AM AFRAID OF ALL MY SORROWS_] _Coverdale_ translates, after the _Vulgate_, _Then am I afrayed of all my workes_. Even were I to cease from complaining, I fear lest not one of my wor...
I AM AFRAID OF ALL MY SORROWS - My fears return. I dread the continuance of my griefs, and cannot close my eye to them. THOU WILT NOT HOLD ME INNOCENT - God will not remove my sorrows so as to furnish...
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....
As Job's afflictions were the proof of his guilt in the estimation of God, "to hold him innocent" means to remove his afflictions, as the first clause suggests....
I AM AFRAID OF ALL MY SORROWS— _I shudder in all my limbs._ Heath, after the LXX....
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;...
_I AM AFRAID OF ALL MY SORROWS, I KNOW THAT THOU WILT NOT HOLD ME INNOCENT._ I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. The apodosis to 27-`If I say, etc., I still am...
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...
Since God is determined to hold Job guilty, it is useless for him to try and establish his innocence. I AM AFRAID OF ALL MY SORROWS] because they seem to be evidences of God's anger. Apparently there...
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...
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...
יָגֹ֥רְתִּי כָל ־עַצְּבֹתָ֑י יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי כִּי ־לֹ֥א...
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...
_Works. Hebrew, "sorrows." I dread their increase, and fear impatience. Even in the midst of prosperity, Job offered sacrifice, lest the sins of his children should be laid to his charge._...
(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...
I AM AFRAID OF ALL MY SORROWS,.... That they would return upon him, and surround him, and overwhelm him, so that he should not be able to stand up against them, or under them; that they would increase...
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. Ver. 28. _I am afraid of all my sorrows_] That come thronging thick about me, and terrify me; they will surely be doubled an...
_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...
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...
MY SORROWS; or, my pains and griefs. I find all such endeavours vain; for if my griefs be suspended for a little time, yet my fears continue. I KNOW THAT THOU WILT NOT HOLD ME INNOCENT; I plainly perc...
Job 9:28 afraid H3025 (H8804) sufferings H6094 know H3045 (H8804) innocent H5352 (H8762) afraid -...
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...
Exodus 20:7; Job 14:16; Job 21:6; Job 9:2; Job 9:20;...
Afraid — I find all such endeavours vain; for if my griefs be suspended for a time, yet my fears continue. Will not — I plainly perceive thou, O God, (to whom he makes a sudden address, as he doth als...