Job 9:19-24

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 9:1-22

4. Job’s first reply to Bildad chs. 9-10"From this point on, the emphasis in the discussion is on the justice of God; and the image that is uppermost in Job’s mind is that of a legal trial." [Note: Wiersbe, pp. 22-23.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 9:13-24

The arbitrary actions of God 9:13-24Rahab (lit. pride, Job 9:13) was a name ancient Near Easterners used to describe a mythical sea monster that was symbolic of evil. Such a monster, also called Leviathan (Job 7:12), was a major character in the creation legends of several ancient Near Eastern peoples, including the Mesopotamians and the Canaanites. The Israelites also referred to Egypt as Rahab because of its similarity to this monster (cf. Job 26:12; Psalms 87:4; Psalms 89:10; Isaiah 30:7;... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 9:1-35

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 follows:—’Job as well as his friends believes suffering to be a mark of God’s displeasure for some grave sin. Job, however, is conscious that he has not so sinned. Hence the terrible dilemma in which he finds himself and which forces him to the conclusion that God, though He knows him to be innocent... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 9:19

(19) If I speak of strength.—All this is the most uncompromising acknowledgment of the absolute inability of man to stand in judgment before God. The whole of this is so very abrupt and enigmatical that it is extremely difficult to be sure of the argument, though naturally the general drift of it is obvious enough. “If it were a trial of strength—Who is Almighty?—and if it was a matter of judgment, is He not judge and court together? and what authority that He would acknowledge could give me... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 9:23

(23) The scourge slay suddenly.—Probably meaning that in the case of hidden calamity overtaking an innocent man, He, God, will laugh at it: that is to say, take no more notice of it than if it furnished Him with sport. The very fact of such calamity befalling, as it often does, the innocent is at all events, in one view, a proof of His indifference to it who, by the exercise of His providence, could easily interpose to prevent it, and so looks as if He verily winked at it. Job’s argument is the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 9:1-35

Job 9:10-11 He is always equally present with us: but we are so much taken up with sensible things, that, Lo, He goeth by us, and we see Him not; He passeth on also, but we perceive Him not. Devotion is retirement from the world He has made, to Him alone: it is to withdraw from the avocation of sense, to employ our attention wholly upon Him as upon an object actually present, to yield ourselves up to the influence of the Divine presence. Butler. References. IX. 20. Spurgeon, Sermons, vol.... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 9:1-35

X.THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMANJob 9:1-35; Job 10:1-22Job SPEAKSIT 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 is so. How can man be just before such a God? You tell me my children are overwhelmed with destruction for their sins. You tell me that I, who am not quite dead as yet, may have new prosperity if I put myself into right relations with God. But how can that be? There is no uprightness, no... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Job 9:1-35

CHAPTERS 9-10 Job Answers Bildad 1. The supremacy and power of God (Job 9:1-10 ) 2. How then can Job meet Him? (Job 9:11-21 ) 3. He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked (Job 9:22-24 ) 4. Confession of weakness and the need of a daysman (Job 9:25-35 ) 5. Murmuring against God (Job 10:1-17 ) 6. Welcoming death (Job 10:18-22 ) Job 9:1-10 . The final words of Bildad seemed to have had a momentary soothing effect upon Job. Of a truth it is so. But here is the question, How can a man be... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 9:19

9:19 If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] {n} strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]?(n) After he has accused his own weakness, he continues to justify God and his power. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 9:20

9:20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {o} [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.(o) If I stood in my own defence yet God would have just cause to condemn me if he examined my heart and conscience. read more

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