Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 9:30
If — If I clear myself from all imputations, and fully prove my innocency before men.
If — If I clear myself from all imputations, and fully prove my innocency before men.
Verse Job 9:30. _IF I WASH MYSELF WITH SNOW WATER_] Supposed to have a more detergent quality than common water; and it was certainly preferred to common water by the ancients. Of this we find an exa...
IF I WASH MYSELF WITH SNOW WATER - If I should make myself as pure as possible, and should become, in my view, perfectly holy. Snow water, it seems, was regarded as especially pure. The whiteness of s...
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....
NEVER SO CLEAN. clean with soap....
_with snow water_ This is according to one reading (_bemê_). According to another (_bemô_), _with snow_. The latter is better; snowwater is turbid and foul, ch. Job 6:16; snow is the symbol of the mos...
IF I WASH MYSELF, &C.— i.e. Though I should appeal to my former life, spent in a religious, holy, and virtuous manner, yet this will be in vain; as I find, from the increase of my calamities, that I s...
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 WASH MYSELF WITH SNOW WATER, AND MAKE MY HANDS NEVER SO CLEAN;_ Snow water - thought to be more cleansing than common water, owing to the whiteness of snow. "I shall be whiter than snow" (Psalm...
9:30 purity, (a-12) Or 'with lye.'...
AND MAKE, etc.] RM 'And cleanse my hands with lye,' or potash. He means that he is really righteous, but God is deteimined to make him seem wicked. 32-35. Job is conscious that he cannot meet God on...
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...
אִם ־הִתְרָחַ֥צְתִּי _בְ_†_מֵי_† ־שָׁ֑לֶג וַ֝ הֲזִכֹּ֗ותִי...
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 wash (y) myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; (y) Though I seem pure in my own eyes, yet all is but corruption before God....
_Snow. Nitre bring off the dirt better. Chaldean, "soap." Hebrew bor, is supposed by many to be the Borith of Jeremias ii. 22. Snow-water was also used through delicacy in summer. (Petronius; Sat.)_...
(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;...
_UNIVERSAL DEPRAVITY_ ‘If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.’ Job 9:30 I. IS THERE NOTHING...
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 WASH MYSELF WITH SNOW WATER,.... As it came from heaven, or flowed from the mountains covered with snow, as Lebanon, see Jeremiah 18:14; or was kept in vessels for such use, as being judged the...
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; Ver. 30. _If I wash myself with snow water_] Some take the former words, I am wicked, to be Job's confession of his own sinfulness...
_If I wash myself with snow-water_, &c. If I clear myself from all imputations, and fully prove my innocence before men; _yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch_ That is, in miry and puddle water, wher...
If I wash myself with snow-water, which was considered as containing greater cleansing power than ordinary water, AND MAKE MY HANDS NEVER SO CLEAN, literally, "cleansing my hands with lye," in an effo...
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...
IF I WASH MYSELF; either, 1. Really, by sanctification, cleansing my heart and life from all filthiness; or rather, 2. Declaratively or judicially, i.e. if I clear myself from all imputations, and fu...
Job 9:30 wash H7364 (H8694) with H7950 water H4325 H1119 cleanse H2141 (H8689) hands H3709 soap...
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 wash myself with snow water._ AN ESTIMATE OF THE MORALITY THAT IS WITHOUT GODLINESS In the eyes of the pure God, the man who has made the most copious application in his power of snow water to...
_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...
1 John 1:8; Isaiah 1:16; Jeremiah 2:22; Jeremiah 4:14; Proverbs 28:13