And they know not— And they are not broken to pieces: an instance of the power of the Almighty, who can remove whole mountains as easily as the least pebble. See Heath, and Judges 8:16. Schultens and Houbigant render it, on a sudden, unawares. See Psalms 35:8.
Verse Job 9:5. _REMOVETH THE MOUNTAINS, AND THEY KNOW NOT_] This seems to refer to earthquakes. By those strong convulsions, mountains, valleys, hills, even whole islands, are removed in an instant;...
WHICH REMOVETH THE MOUNTAINS - In order to show how vain it was to contend with God, Job refers to some exhibitions of his power and greatness. The “removal of the mountains” here denotes the changes...
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...
THEY KNOW. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6....
Description of God's omnipotent power as it displays itself in the material world. _they know not_ Suddenly and unexpectedly, Psalms 35:8; Jeremiah 50:24....
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...
_WHICH REMOVETH THE MOUNTAINS, AND THEY KNOW NOT: WHICH OVERTURNETH THEM IN HIS ANGER._ And they know not - Hebrew for 'suddenly; unexpectedly; before they are aware of it;' "at unawares" (Psalms 35:...
AND THEY KNOW NOT: WHICH OVERTURNETH] RV 'And they know it not when he overturneth.' The catastrophe is so sudden....
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...
Some people may think that they are strong or powerful. But God is much more powerful than any person. The Bible says that God made everything (Genesis chapter 1). He made our wonderful world. He plac...
הַ מַּעְתִּ֣יק הָ֭רִים וְ לֹ֣א יָדָ֑עוּ אֲשֶׁ
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...
Removed, by earthquakes. (Pliny, [Natural History?] ii. 83.) (Calmet) --- In Calabria, 5th February, &c., 1783, during the most destructive and dreadful earthquake, a level valley was removed entire a...
(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...
WHICH REMOVETH THE MOUNTAINS,.... This and what follow are instances of the power of God, and are full proofs of his being mighty in strength; and may be understood, either literally, not only of what...
Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. Ver. 5. _Which removeth the mountains, and they know not_] For further proof of God's power first (and then after...
_Which removeth the mountains_ He proceeds to give particular evidences of the divine power and wisdom, which he mentioned Job 9:4. _And they_ That is, the mountains, to which he figuratively ascribes...
Which removeth the mountains and they know not, without their being aware of the fact; WHICH OVERTURNETH THEM IN HIS ANGER; His wrath strikes them with such sudden fury that they are not even consciou...
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...
Here is. sample of God's might. He overturns mountains, shakes the earth, darkens the sun and stars, stretches out the heavens, tramples the waves of the sea, and creates the constellations....
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...
He proccedeth to give particular evidences of the Divine power and wisdom, which he mentioned JOB 9:4. AND THEY KNOW NOT, i.e. suddenly and unexpectedly, ere they were aware of it. _They_, i.e. the mo...
Job 9:5 removes H6275 (H8688) mountains H2022 know H3045 (H8804) overturns H2015 (H8804) anger H639 removeth -...
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 removeth the mountains._ GOD IN NATURE I. Its almightiness is overwhelmingly grand in its manifestations. “Removeth the mountains,” etc. The whole passage impresses one with the unbounded ene...
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 9:3 Job does not respond further to the specifics of Bildad’s argument. Instead he describes the difficulty of anyone arguing a case before God (vv. Job 9:3), given his power and stren...
_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 Corinthians 13:2; Habakkuk 3:10; Habakkuk 3:6; Isaiah 40:12; Job 28:
Who — He proceeds to give evidence of the Divine power and wisdom. Removeth — Suddenly and unexpectedly. They — The mountains, to which he ascribes sense and knowledge figuratively. In anger — In toke...