Which (c) shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
(c) He declares the infirmity of man, by the mighty and incomprehensible power that is in God, showing what he could do if he would set forth his power.
Verse Job 9:6. _THE PILLARS THEREOF TREMBLE._] This also refers to an earthquake, and to that _tremulous motion_ which sometimes gives warning of the approaching catastrophe, and from which this viol...
WHICH SHAKETH THE EARTH OUT OF HER PLACE - This evidently refers to violent convulsions of nature, as if the earth were to be taken away. Objects on the earth’s surface become displaced, and convulsio...
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...
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....
The reference is probably to earthquakes. The earth is conceived as a structure supported on pillars, ch. Job 38:6; Psalms 75:3. The conception was poetical; if the pillars were supposed anything actu...
AND THE PILLARS THEREOF TREMBLE— The image is taken from a man in so great fear, that all his limbs tremble and shake like a leaf....
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 SHAKETH THE EARTH OUT OF HER PLACE, AND THE PILLARS THEREOF TREMBLE._ Which shaketh the earth ... pillar's thereof tremble. The earth is regarded, poetically, as resting on pillars, which trem...
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...
The v. describes an earthquake. The roots of the mountains were thought of as pillars supporting the earth: cp. Job 26:11; Psalms 75:3....
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 מַּרְגִּ֣יז אֶ֭רֶץ מִ מְּקֹומָ֑הּ וְ֝ עַמּ
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...
_Pillars. These are represented as fixed in the waters, Proverbs viii. 29., and Psalm xxvii. 16., &c._...
(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 SHAKETH THE EARTH OUT OF HER PLACE,.... Can do it, and will do it at the last day, when it shall be utterly broken down, clean dissolved, and reel to and fro like a drunkard, and be removed as a...
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. Ver. 6. _Which shaketh the earth out of her place_] By mighty earthquakes, dislocating the earth, some part of it; for the w...
_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 shaketh the earth out of her place, causing not only the mountains, but the entire earth to tremble in mighty earthquakes, AND THE PILLARS THEREOF TREMBLE, its very foundations are rocked and sh...
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...
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...
THE EARTH, i.e. great portions of it, by earthquakes, or by removing islands, which sometimes hath been done. THE PILLARS THEREOF, i.e. the strength or the strongest parts of it, the mountains, yea, t...
Job 9:6 shakes H7264 (H8688) earth H776 place H4725 pillars H5982 tremble H6426 (H8691) shaketh -...
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 Samuel 2:8; Haggai 2:21; Haggai 2:6; Hebrews 12:26; Isaiah 13:13;...
The earth — Great portions of it, by earthquakes, or by removing islands. Pillars — The deep and inward parts of it, which like pillars supported those parts that appear to our view....