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IF I BE WICKED, WOE UNTO ME - The meaning of this in this connection
is, “I am full of perplexity and sorrow. Whether I am wicked or
righteous, I find no comfort. Whatever is my character, my efforts...
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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...
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Job's tone becomes sharper. He accuses God of having created him only
to torment him. What profit is there to God in destroying the work
that has cost Him so much pains? (Job 10:3)? Is God short-sight...
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CONFUSION. Hebrew. _kalon =_ shame. First occurrence....
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The contradiction between this dealing with Job in the womb and since
his birth and God's present treatment of him is only to be reconciled
by the supposition that God's present severe treatment of Jo...
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_if I be wicked_ Better, WERE I WICKED guilty of great offences. Job
cannot express what would be the punishment of greater sins were e
guilty of them, but indicates its incalculable severity by the
e...
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IF I BE WICKED, WOE UNTO ME! &C.— i.e. "I cannot, will not hope for
any temporal deliverance upon account of my righteousness, as you, my
friends, are endeavouring to persuade me, from a mistaken prin...
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5. HE WOULD ASK THE ALMIGHTY THE REASON FOR THE CHANGE IN HIS
TREATMENT OF HIS CREATURE. (JOB 10:1-22)
TEXT 10:1-22
10 My soul is weary of my life;
I will give free coarse to my complaint;
I will s...
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_IF I SIN, THEN THOU MARKEST ME, AND THOU WILT NOT ACQUIT ME FROM MINE
INIQUITY._
If I sin, then thou markest me. Job is perplexed because God "marks"
every sin of his with such ceaseless rigour.
IF...
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JOB'S SECOND SPEECH (CONCLUDED)
1-7. Job seeks the reason of his trial, and protests against God's
treatment as inconsistent with the natural relations between Creator
and created, and with God's kno...
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_If_ I BE RIGHTEOUS, etc.] 'Were I righteous I must not lift up my
head as an innocent man.' _I am_ FULL, etc.] RV 'being filled with
ignominy, and looking upon my affliction.' But a slight correction...
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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 10
JOB PRAYS TO GOD
JOB PR...
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Job suggested a more complex explanation. Perhaps God had a secret
plan. Perhaps God wanted to prove that all people were evil. So God
made Job. God watched Job’s actions. Job was much better than oth...
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אִם ־רָשַׁ֡עְתִּי אַלְלַ֬י לִ֗י וְ֭
צָדַקְתִּי...
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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...
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SOUL BITTERNESS
Job 10:1
In this chapter Job accuses God of persecuting His own workmanship,
Job 20:3; of pursuing him with repeated strokes, as if he had not time
enough to wait between them, but mu...
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Notwithstanding all this, Job appealed to God. Turning from his answer
to Bildad, he poured out his agony as in the presence of the Most
High. It was by no means a hopeful appeal, but it was an appeal...
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If I be wicked, woe unto me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not
(p) lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see thou mine
affliction;
(p) I will always walk in fear and humility,...
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_Woe. Thou wilt not suffer me to pass unpunished. (Calmet) --- Head. I
will adore in silence, chap. ix. 15, 31. (Ven. Bede) (Calmet)_...
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(14) В¶ If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me
from mine iniquity. (15) If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be
righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion;...
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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...
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IF I BE WICKED, WOE IS ME,.... In this world, and to all eternity;
afflictions will abide me here, and everlasting wrath hereafter: these
are the woes that belong to a wicked man; that is, a profane a...
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If I be wicked, woe unto me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not
lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see thou mine
affliction;
Ver. 15. _If I be wicked, woe unto me_] Here he b...
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_If I be wicked_ That is, an ungodly hypocrite, as my friends esteem
me; _wo unto me_ I am truly and extremely miserable; and, if I
continue wicked, must be eternally so. _And if I be righteous_ An
up...
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If I be wicked, woe unto me! He must expect a sudden and violent
punishment. AND IF I BE RIGHTEOUS, YET WILL I NOT LIFT UP MY HEAD,
even if he were right, he would not dare to look up with freedom and...
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JOB RENEWS HIS COMPLAINT OF HIS AFFLICTION...
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AN ATTEMPT TO REASON WITH GOD
(vv.1-22)
Since there was no mediator, Job in this chapter (from verse 2 on)
directs all of his words directly to God, reasoning with Him as
regards why God should deal...
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Has God determined that he will suffer regardless of whether he is
innocent or guilty, does it make any difference? "Job has no pride
left, he cannot lift up his head" _(Strauss p. 100)._ If Job would...
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14-22 Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings;
but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar
rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much...
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IF I BE WICKED, i.e. an ungodly hypocrite, as my friends esteem me,
then I am truly and extremely, and must be eternally, miserable.
RIGHTEOUS, i.e. an upright and good man: so, whether good or bad, a...
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Job 10:15 wicked H7561 (H8804) woe H480 righteous H6663 (H8804) up
H5375 (H8799) head H7218 full...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad continued.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, Bildad.
CONCLUSION: Sometimes, when in affliction, the believer is tempted to
think that God's providences and His justice cannot be...
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Job 10:1. _I will leave my complaint upon myself._ These words seem to
imply, that he would bear his complaint in silence; but it immediately
follows, _I will speak in the bitterness of my soul._ Oste...
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_Thy visitation hath preserved my spirit._
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF AND APPEAL TO GOD
Job addresses God as his Creator, Preserver, and Benefactor; he seems
to ask, why, knowing his frailty, He laid upon him...
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_Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress?_
JOB’S MISTAKEN VIEWS OF HIS SUFFERINGS
I. As inconsistent with all his ideas of his Maker.
1. As inconsistent with His goodness. “Is it good unto...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 10:15 Even if he is in the RIGHT (v. Job 10:15; see
also Job 9:15,...
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_JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD—CONTINUED_
His speech takes the form rather of an expostulation with God in
regard to his afflictions. The vehemence of his spirit reaches its
height in this chapter. Does not...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 10:1
Having answered Bildad, Job proceeds to pour out the bitterness of his
soul in a pathetic complaint, which he addresses directly to God.
There is not much that is novel in the lon...
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Now Job goes on in the tenth chapter. He said,
My soul is weary of my life (Job 10:1);
He goes right back into his misery. He looks for the answer, but it
isn't there; it isn't to be found. And so I...
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Exodus 3:7; Isaiah 3:11; Isaiah 6:5; Isaiah 64:5; Isaiah 64:6;...
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Wicked — An hypocrite, as my friends esteem me. Righteous — An
upright man; so whether good or bad, all comes to one. Yet — Yet I
have no comfort, or hopes of any good. Confusion — I am confounded
wit...