"Beneath Him crouch the helpers of Rahab": "The reference is to the Babylonian creation myth in which Markduk defeated Tiamat and then captured her helpers. God in His anger and power was able to conquer all the forces of evil, real and mythical. Rahab is another name for Tiamat, and for Leviathan, mentioned earlier (Job 7:12)" (Zuck p. 48).
Verse Job 9:13. _IF GOD WILL NOT WITHDRAW HIS ANGER_] It is of no use to contend with God; he cannot be successfully resisted; all his opposers must perish....
IF GOD WILL NOT WITHDRAW HIS ANGER - That is, if he perseveres in inflicting punishment. He will not turn aside his displeasure by any opposition or resistance made to him. THE PROUD HELPERS - Margin,...
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...
GOD. Hebrew. _Eloah_. App-4. WITHDRAW. avert. HELPERS. confederates....
_if God will not withdraw_ Rather, GOD WITHDRAWS NOT. His fury is persistent and inexorable till it has accomplished its purpose, cf. ch. Job 23:13-14. _the proud helpers do stoop_ Rather, THE HELPERS...
From the operation of this terrible force in the physical world Job passes on to describe its display among creatures, and to shew how it paralyses and crushes them....
IF GOD WILL NOT WITHDRAW HIS ANGER— _He is not a God who will restrain his anger; they stoop beneath him, who have surrounded themselves with strength: i.e._ his majesty is most dreadful and inaccessi...
2. Arbitrarily God deals with him, no matter what he may do. (Job 9:13-24) TEXT 9:13-24 13 GOD WILL NOT WITHDRAW HIS ANGER; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him. 14 How much less shall I answer...
_IF GOD WILL NOT WITHDRAW HIS ANGER, THE PROUD HELPERS DO STOOP UNDER HIM._ If God - or else, 'God will not withdraw His anger' - i:e., so long as a mortal obstinately resists (Umbreit). THE PROUD H...
9:13 helpers (e-8) Lit. 'helpers of Rahab.' see ch. 26.12....
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...
RV 'God will not withdraw his anger; the helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.' The word 'Rahab,' which means 'pride,' occurs again in Job 26:12 RV, and is there evidently applied to the raging sea. 'T...
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...
No enemy can successfully oppose God. See Psalms 2. A MAN CANNOT ARGUE WITH GOD V14 So, I cannot argue with God. I cannot even choose the right words to say to him. V15 Even if I am innocent, I cann...
PROUD HELPERS. — Literally, _helpers of Rahab._ (See Isaiah 30:7; Psalms 87:4.) But whether Rahab was Egypt, or a poetical name for the lost archangel, it is impossible to say. If the former, then the...
אֱ֭לֹוהַּ לֹא ־יָשִׁ֣יב אַפֹּ֑ו _תַּחְתָּ֥יו_† שָׁ֝חֲח֗וּ עֹ֣זְ
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] God (g) will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers (h) do stoop under him. (g) God will not be appeased for anything that man can say for himself for his justification. (h) That is, all the...
God. Protestants, " If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him." Septuagint, "For he is not turned aside by wrath;" (or Roman edition) "God, whose anger cannot be averted...
(13) If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. (14) В¶ How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? (15) Whom, though I were righteous,...
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] GOD WILL NOT WITHDRAW HIS ANGER,.... Or "God will not withdraw his anger" m; he is angry, or at least seems to be angry with his own people, in their apprehension, when he afflicts them and hides...
Job 9:13 [If] God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. Ver. 13. _If God will not withdraw his anger_] That is, of his own free accord forbear to execute his judgments, t...
_If God will not withdraw his anger_ There is nothing in the Hebrew for _if_. The words, literally rendered, are, _God will not withdraw his anger;_ or, continuing the interrogation, used twice in the...
If God will not withdraw His anger, rather, affirmatively, "He will not cause it to return," He will not recall it, THE PROUD HELPERS DO STOOP UNDER HIM, literally, "the helpers of Rahab cringe before...
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...
THE PROUD HELPERS: _ Heb._ helpers of pride, or strength...
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...
i.e. If God resolve not to withdraw his rod and stroke, the effect of his anger. Or without _if_, which is not in the Hebrew, GOD WILL NOT WITHDRAW HIS ANGER, i.e. not forbear to punish, neither becau...
Job 9:13 God H433 withdraw H7725 (H8686) anger H639 allies H5826 (H8802) proud H7293 prostrate H7817 ...
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...
_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—NOTE ON JOB 9:13 RAHAB, like Leviathan (see Job 3:8; compare Job 7:12), is the name of a beast from the myths of
_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...
Isaiah 30:7; Isaiah 31:2; Isaiah 31:3; James 4:6; James 4:7;...
Helpers — Those who undertake to uphold and defend one another against him. Stoop — Fall and are crushed by him....