Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 9:32
A man — But one infinitely superior to me in majesty, and power, and wisdom, and justice. That — That I should presume to debate my cause with him. Come — Face to face, to plead upon equal terms.
A man — But one infinitely superior to me in majesty, and power, and wisdom, and justice. That — That I should presume to debate my cause with him. Come — Face to face, to plead upon equal terms.
Verse Job 9:32. _FOR_ HE IS _NOT A MAN AS I_ AM] I cannot contend with him as with one of my fellows in a court of justice....
FOR HE IS NOT A MAN AS I AM - He is infinitely superior to me in majesty and power. The idea is, that the contest would be unequal, and that he might as well surrender without bringing the matter to a...
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....
The preceding verses described how unavailing all Job's efforts were to make out his innocence in the face of the fixed resolution of God to hold him guilty. Now Job comes back to what is the real dif...
4. There is no mediator between the man and his creator. (Job 9:32-35) TEXT 9:32-35 32 FOR HE IS NOT A MAN, AS I AM, THAT I SHOULD ANSWER HIM, That we should come together in judgment. 33 There is...
_FOR HE IS NOT A MAN, AS I AM, THAT I SHOULD ANSWER HIM, AND WE SHOULD COME TOGETHER IN JUDGMENT._ For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. "Ne...
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...
This is a wonderful passage. Job wanted someone, like a lawyer, to help him to speak to God. These verses describe Jesus’ work (1 Timothy 2:5). Jesus is God (Hebrews 1:3). But he became a man (Hebrew...
FOR HE IS NOT A MAN, AS I AM... — Is not that confession, if we believe that such a daysman as Job longed for has been given, itself a witness that it came from God, and was given by God? The light th...
כִּי ־לֹא ־אִ֣ישׁ כָּמֹ֣נִי אֶֽעֱנֶ֑נּוּ נָבֹ֥וא...
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...
(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...
FOR [HE IS] NOT A MAN, AS I [AM],.... For though the parts and members of an human body are sometimes ascribed to him, yet these are to be understood by an anthropopathy, speaking after the manner of...
For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment. Ver. 32. _For he is not a man as I am_] He is not such a one, nor can be, as I am, and must be;...
_For he is not a man as I am_ But one infinitely superior to me in majesty and power, wisdom and justice. _That I should answer him _ That I should presume to debate my cause with him, or answer his a...
JOB INSISTS THAT GOD VISITS ALSO THE RIGHTEOUS WITH AFFLICTION...
For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, standing on the same level with Him before a court of justice, AND WE SHOULD COME TOGETHER IN JUDGMENT....
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...
"HE IS NOT. MAN": "How does this square with the Mormon notion, as stated by Joseph Smith, that 'God himself, who sits enthroned in yonder heavens, is. man like unto one of yourselves?' (Job 33:12; Ho...
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...
HE IS NOT A MAN, as I am; but one infinitely superior to me in majesty, and power, and wisdom, and justice. THAT I SHOULD ANSWER HIM; that I should presume to debate my cause with him, or answer his a...
Job 9:32 man H376 answer H6030 (H8799) go H935 (H8799) court H4941 together H3162 not a man -...
Job 9:32 I. This desire of Job's is to be studied, not merely as the experience of an individual under peculiar circumstances, but as a _human_experience, the germs of which are in man as man; in oth...
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—NOTE ON JOB 9:32 THERE IS NO ARBITER. Job criticizes his friends for not comforting him. He longs for an impartial party to hear his case (see v. Job 9:33,...
_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 3:20; 1 Samuel 16:7; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Isaiah 45:9; Jere