Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 9:34
Fear — The fear and dread of his majesty and justice. Let him not deal with me according to his perfect justice, but according to his grace and clemency.
Fear — The fear and dread of his majesty and justice. Let him not deal with me according to his perfect justice, but according to his grace and clemency.
Verse Job 9:34. _LET HIM TAKE HIS ROD AWAY_] In the Masoretic Bibles, the word שבטו _shibto_, _his rod_, is written with a large ט _teth_, as above; and as the letter in numerals stands for 9, the _Ma...
LET HIM TAKE HIS ROD AWAY FROM ME - Let him suspend my sufferings, and let us come together on equal terms. His terror now is upon me, and I can do nothing. I am oppressed, and broken down, and crushe...
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....
HIS FEAR. the fear that He causes. TERRIFY. startle, or scare. Compare Job 13:21; Job 33:7....
The subject is God, not the daysman let God remove His rod, His afflictions. _his fear terrify me_ Or, _his terror affright me_. The "terror" of God is His overawing majesty, cf. ch. Job 13:21; Job 3...
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...
_LET HIM TAKE HIS ROD AWAY FROM ME, AND LET NOT HIS FEAR TERRIFY ME:_ Rod - not here the symbol of punishment, but of power (Umbreit). Job cannot meet God on fair terms, so long as God deals with him...
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...
HIS FEAR] i.e. the fear He causes, as in Exodus 23:27....
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...
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...
יָסֵ֣ר מֵ עָלַ֣י שִׁבְטֹ֑ו וְ֝ אֵמָתֹ֗ו אַֽל
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...
LET HIM TAKE HIS ROD AWAY FROM ME,.... Not his government over him, of which the rod or sceptre is an ensign, Job did not want to be freed from that; but, his rod of affliction, or stroke, as the Targ...
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: Ver. 34. _Let him take his rod away from me_] Having sufficiently set forth that he will not once offer to contend with God, he her...
_Let not his fear terrify me_ The fear and dread of his majesty and justice. Let him not deal with me according to his perfect justice, but according to his grace and clemency. _Then would I speak, an...
Let Him take His rod away from me, the scourge and calamity wherewith He was smiting Job, AND LET NOT HIS FEAR TERRIFY ME, stupefying him by His majestic presence;...
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...
The same word for "rod" is used in Psalms 23:4. "To David, God's rod was his defense against his enemies; for Job, God's rod brings only violence and pain" _(Strauss p. 93)._...
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...
HIS FEAR; objectively so called, i.e. the fear and dread of him, of his majesty and justice. Let him not deal with me rigorously, according to his sovereign dominion and perfect justice, but according...
Job 9:34 take H5493 rod H7626 away H5493 (H8686) dread H367 terrify H1204 (H8762) let not -...
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—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...
Job 13:11; Job 13:20; Job 23:15; Job 29:2; Job 31:23;...