Job 9:25

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 9:25-35

Job 9:25-Habakkuk : . Job again takes up his complaint, but in a quieter tone, so that he is able to imagine after all a way in which he might maintain his cause before God. He complains first of the shortness of his life. His time runs swiftly as a runner, as the light papyrus boats used on the Nile, as an eagle in its flight ( Job 9:25 f.). If he should resolve to brighten up and treat his misery as a bad dream, what use? God will again put him on the rack. (We may associate Job’ s quieter... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 9:25

What he had said of the calamities which God usually inflicted upon good men, he now exemplifieth in himself. My days; the days, either of my prosperity; for the time of affliction is commonly described by the night; or rather, of my life, as the last clause showeth; for it were an absurd and contradictious speech to say that his prosperous days saw no good. A post; who runs or rides upon swift horses. They see no good; I enjoy no good in them. Seeing is oft put for experiencing either good or... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 9:1-35

JOB’S REPLY TO BILDADStrongly 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 acknowledged in reference to himself (ch. Job 7:20-21). Only maintains, as before, his freedom from such sins as to make him specially obnoxious to God’s judgments. Enlarges on the majesty, power and sovereignty of God, as exhibited in His works of creation and providence. Again complains of his... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 9:1-35

Chapter 9So 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. Though the justice of God is often challenged. One of the first challenges that Satan made even to Eve was in the fairness of God. Satan was declaring God wasn't fair. "God doesn't want you to eat of the fruit of that tree because He knows that when you do, you're going to be just as wise... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 9:1-35

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 of slumbering lavas, which on the sudden irruption of great waters, they being instantly converted into vapour, mountains burst asunder, and islands sink in a few moments. There is however a geological idea of the removal, and new formations of the mountains, which was partially known to the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 9:25-26

Job 9:25-26Now my days are swifter than a post . . . as the swift ships.Illustrations of lifeI. The text teaches us the brevity of human life. “My days are swifter than a post.” They are as swift-footed messengers, as couriers, as the medium of communication from one province to another. They are “swifter than the swift ships”; than the “eagle hastening to his prey.” There are illustrations from earth, and sea, and sky. We often speak of the brevity of life; it is only now and then we are... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 9:25

Job 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. Ver. 25. Now my days are swifter than a post, &c. ] Not my prosperous days only (as Broughton glosseth), but the whole course of my life; the vanity whereof Job expresseth by many similitudes; and here search is made into three of the four elements, earth, water, and air, to find out a fit one. What is swifter upon earth than a post, who rides without stop or stay, and spares for no horse flesh? indeed, he... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 9:25

swifter: Job 7:6, Job 7:7, Esther 8:14 a post: Rotz, a runner, or courier; some of whom are said to go 150 miles in less than 24 hours. they flee away: Psalms 39:5, Psalms 39:11, Psalms 89:47, Psalms 90:9, Psalms 90:10, James 4:14 Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 30:6 - the posts went 2 Chronicles 30:10 - the posts Esther 3:13 - by posts Esther 8:10 - by posts Job 10:20 - my days few Job 14:1 - of few days Job 14:2 - fleeth Job 17:11 - My days Isaiah 38:12 - have cut Jeremiah 51:31 - post 1 Peter... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 9:25

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.Now — What he had said of the calamities which God frequently inflicts upon good men, he now exemplifies in himself.My days — The days of my life.Post — Who rides upon swift horses.See — I enjoy no good in them. Seeing is often put for experiencing either good or evil. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 9:25

Second section, in strophes of four, three, and four verses JOB’S CASE A PRE-EMINENT ILLUSTRATION OF THIS MORAL CONFUSION, Job 9:25-35. Strophe a The premature destruction of his life, and his intolerable burden of sorrows, show God’s estimate of him to be that of an evil-doer, Job 9:25-28. 25. A post A courier. In eastern countries messages are transmitted by couriers, who, having at their command relays of horses, dromedaries, or men, travel with almost incredible speed. Comp.... read more