Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Job 9:12
It is irresistible and irresponsible.
taketh away Carries off, as a beast of prey its booty.
who can hinder him Or, turn him back.
It is irresistible and irresponsible.
taketh away Carries off, as a beast of prey its booty.
who can hinder him Or, turn him back.
Verse Job 9:12. _HE TAKETH AWAY_] He never _gives_, but he is ever _lending_: and while the gift is useful or is improved, he permits it to remain; but when it becomes useless or is misused, he recall...
BEHOLD, HE TAKETH AWAY - Property, friends, or life. WHO CAN HINDER HIM? - Margin, turn him away. Or, rather, “who shall cause him to restore?” that is, who can bring back what he takes away? He is 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 9:1 is Job's answer to the position taken up by Bildad, viz. that the Almighty cannot judge falsely (Job 8:3). In Job 2 accepts the general principle that God judges according to merit. But of wha...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech. _Asterismos_. App-6....
BEHOLD HE TAKETH AWAY, &C.— _But if he should take any thing away, who shall prevent him, or cause him to make restitution._ Houbigant and Heath....
E. NOT GUILTYTHE CRIME OF INNOCENCEJOB'S CRY (Job 9:1, Job 10:22) 1. Man is no match before the all-powerful, all-wise God. (Job 9:1-12) TEXT 9:1-12 9 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 Of a truth I k...
_BEHOLD, HE TAKETH AWAY, WHO CAN HINDER HIM? WHO WILL SAY UNTO HIM, WHAT DOEST THOU?_ Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? If "He taketh away" suddenly...
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...
Often we are not aware of God’s work. We do not realise what he is doing. But God is not far away from us. God’s Holy Spirit is working in our world. And he will work in our lives too, if we allow him...
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...
WHAT DOEST THOU? — Putting the case even that God were, so to say, in the wrong, and the assailant, yet even then He would maintain His cause from sheer might, and crush His adversary....
הֵ֣ן יַ֭חְתֹּף מִ֣י יְשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ מִֽי ־יֹאמַ֥ר...
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...
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? (f) who will say unto him, What doest thou? (f) He shows that when God executes his power, he does it justly, as no one can control him....
(5) Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. (6) Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. (7) Which commandeth the sun, a...
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...
BEHOLD, HE TAKETH AWAY,.... There are some things God never takes away from his people; he never takes away his love from them, he always rests in that towards them, let them be in what condition they...
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? Ver. 12. _Behold, he taketh away_] _Raptim aufert; _ He snatcheth away, or taketh by force, as a lion doth his prey...
_Behold, he taketh away_ If he determine to take away from any man his children, or servants, or estate, who is able to restrain him from doing it? Or, who dare presume to reprove him for it? And, the...
Behold, He taketh away, snatching away His victim and all the spoil He chooses to take; WHO CAN HINDER HIM, holding Him back from His course, placing hindrances in His way? WHO WILL SAY UNTO HIM, WHAT...
JOB'S DEFENSE AGAINST SUSPICION. Both Eliphaz and Bildad had attempted to fasten upon Job some specific wrong, seeking from him a confession to that effect. He therefore defends himself against this...
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...
WHO CAN HINDER HIM?: _ Heb._ who can turn him away?...
1-13 In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied himself to be a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before him he pleaded guilty of sins more tha...
If he determine to take away from any man his children, or servants, or estate, as he hath done from me, who is able to restrain him from doing it? or who dare presume to reprove him for it? And there...
Job 9:12 away H2862 (H8799) hinder H7725 (H8686) say H559 (H8799) doing H6213 (H8799) he taketh -...
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...
_Behold, He taketh away._ THE CONDUCT TO WHICH ADVERSE DISPENSATIONS SHOULD LEAD Job was a sufferer. Of his property he was deprived; of his children he was bereaved; in his own person he was sorely...
_Which doeth great things past finding out._ JOB’S IDEA OF WHAT GOD IS TO MANKIND He regards the Eternal as-- I. Inscrutable. 1. In His works. “Which doeth great things past finding out.” How great...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 9:1 Job responds, in a speech that is relentlessly legal: ch. Job 9:1 is framed by the term CONTEND ...
_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...
Daniel 4:35; Ephesians 1:11; Isaiah 45:9; Jeremiah 18:6; Job 11:10;...
Taketh — If he determines to take away from any man his children or servants, or estate, who is able to restrain him from doing it? Or who dare presume to reprove him for it? And therefore far be it f...