Job 9:3
What meaning of the job 9:3 in the Bible?
What does Job 9:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand."
What does Job 9:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand."
Verse Job 9:3. _IF HE WILL CONTEND WITH HIM_] God is so holy, and his law so strict, that if he will enter into judgment with his creatures, the most upright of them cannot be justified in his sight....
IF HE WILL CONTEND WITH HIM - That is, if God enters into a controversy with man. If he chooses to charge crime on him, and to hold him responsible for his deeds. The language here is taken from court...
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...
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_if he will contend_ Or, _if he would_; if he (man) should desire to contend with God. "To contend" is a legal term meaning to enter a plea with, the idea of a court or judge being in the mind of the...
DISCOURSE: 458 THE FOLLY OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PRESUMPTION Job 9:2. _How should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. He is wise in heart, and...
IF HE WILL CONTEND— To _contend_ is a judicial term, and signifies properly to _wage law. To answer him one of a thousand,_ signifies to justify himself for one of the thousand crimes which shall be c...
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...
_IF HE WILL CONTEND WITH HIM, HE CANNOT ANSWER HIM ONE OF A THOUSAND._ If he (God) will contend, with him - literally, 'deign to enter into judgment:' 'If it were His good, pleasure х_ YACHPOTS_ (H26...
9:3 him, (a-8) him (a-12) i.e. God....
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...
IF HE WILL CONTEND WITH HIM. — IF man choose to contend with God, he cannot answer Him one question of A thousand, once in a thousand times....
אִם ־יַ֭חְפֹּץ לָ רִ֣יב עִמֹּ֑ו לֹֽא ־יַ֝עֲנֶ֗נּוּ אַחַ֥ת מִנִּי ־אָֽלֶף׃...
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 he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a (b) thousand. (b) Of a thousand things, which God could lay to his charge, man cannot answer him one....
_Thousand. Psalm cxlii. 2. "Woe even to the praise-worthy life of man, if God judge without mercy." (St. Augustine) (Haydock)_...
(1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? (3) If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. (4) He is wise in heart...
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 HE WILL CONTEND WITH HIM,.... If God will contend with man, so Sephorno; enter into a controversy with him, litigate and dispute the point in law, whether he is just or not, man cannot answer to th...
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. Ver. 3. _If he will contend with him_] If any one would be so fool hardy, or adventurous, as to dispute with God about his judgmen...
_If he will contend with him_ If God be pleased to contend with man, namely, in judgment, or to debate, or plead with him; _he cannot answer him one of a thousand_ One accusation among a thousand whic...
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...
"If Job was to follow the Eliphaz's urging that he 'place his cause before God' (Job 5:8), the problem to be faced would be 'how'? Because God had tormented Job, an upright man, how, he reasoned, coul...
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 than...
If God be pleased to contend (to wit, in judgment; debate or plead; for so this word is oft used, as HOSEA 2:2, HOSEA 4:1 MICAH 6:1; compare ISAIAH 45:9) with man. ONE OF A THOUSAND; either to one acc...
Job 9:3 wished H2654 (H8799) contend H7378 (H8800) answer H6030 (H8799) one H259 thousand H505 he will contend - Job 9:20, Job 9:32-33, Job 10:2, Job 23:3-7, Job 31:35-37,...
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...
_Then Job answered and said._ JOB’S ANSWER TO BILDAD Job was utterly unaware of the circumstances under which he was suffering. If Job had known that he was to be an example, that a great battle was...
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 9:3; Job 10:2), and legal terms occur throughout the chapter (e.g., Job 9:2, Jo...
_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, alread...
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 John 1:8; 1 John 3:20; Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 57:16; Job 10:2; Job 23:3; Job 31:35; Job 33:13; Job 34:14; Job 34:15;...
One — One accusation among a thousand which God shall produce against him....