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Text -- Job 9:16 (NET)

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9:16 If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Philosophy | Job | God | Doubting | Complaint | Blasphemy | Afflictions and Adversities | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Job 9:16 - -- I could not believe that God had indeed granted my desire, because I am still full of the tokens of his displeasure; and therefore should conclude tha...

I could not believe that God had indeed granted my desire, because I am still full of the tokens of his displeasure; and therefore should conclude that it was but a pleasant dream, and not a real thing.

JFB: Job 9:16-17 - -- Who breaketh me (as a tree stripped of its leaves) with a tempest.

Who breaketh me (as a tree stripped of its leaves) with a tempest.

Clarke: Job 9:16 - -- If I had called, and he had answered - I could scarcely suppose, such is his majesty and such his holiness, that he could condescend to notice a bei...

If I had called, and he had answered - I could scarcely suppose, such is his majesty and such his holiness, that he could condescend to notice a being so mean, and in every respect so infinitely beneath his notice. These sentiments sufficiently confuted that slander of his friends, who said he was presumptuous, had not becoming notions of the majesty of God, and used blasphemous expressions against his sovereign authority.

TSK: Job 9:16 - -- If I had : Psa 18:6, Psa 66:18-20, Psa 116:1, Psa 116:2 would I : Job 29:24; Exo 6:9; Jdg 6:13; Psa 126:1; Luk 24:41; Act 12:14-16

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Job 9:16 - -- If I had called, and he had answered me - It is remarked by Schultens, that the expressions in these verses are all taken from courts of justic...

If I had called, and he had answered me - It is remarked by Schultens, that the expressions in these verses are all taken from courts of justice. If so, the meaning is, that even if Job should call the Almighty to a judicial action, and he should respond to him, and consent to submit the great question about his innocence, and about the justice of the divine dealings with him, to trial, yet that such was the distance between God and him, that he could not hope successfully to contend with him in the argument. He would, therefore, prostrate himself in a suppliant manner, and implore his mercy and compassion - submitting to him as having all power, and as being a just and righteous Sovereign.

Would I not believe - I cannot believe that he would enter into my complaint. He deals with me in a manner so severe; he acts toward me so much as a sovereign, that I have no reason to suppose that he would not continue to act toward me in the same way still.

Poole: Job 9:16 - -- If I had called i.e. prayed, as this word is commonly used, to wit, unto my Judge, for a favourable sentence, as he now said, and therefore it was ne...

If I had called i.e. prayed, as this word is commonly used, to wit, unto my Judge, for a favourable sentence, as he now said, and therefore it was needless here to mention the object of his calling or prayer.

Yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice I could not believe that God had indeed granted my desire, though he had done it; because I am so infinitely below him, and obnoxious to him, and still full of the tokens of his displeasure; and therefore should conclude that it was but a pleasant dream or fancy, and not a real thing: compare Psa 126:1 .

Haydock: Job 9:16 - -- Voice. So much am I beneath his notice. How unjust were the aspersions of Job's friends, who accused him of presumption and blasphemy! (Calmet) --...

Voice. So much am I beneath his notice. How unjust were the aspersions of Job's friends, who accused him of presumption and blasphemy! (Calmet) ---

No one ever spoke with greater humility (Haydock) and respect of God's absolute dominion. (Calmet) ---

He will attribute nothing to his own prayers, as he is still in the dark. (Menochius)

Gill: Job 9:16 - -- If I had called, and he had answered me,.... Mr. Broughton reads the words, "if I cry, will he answer me?" as if Job had some doubt upon his mind whet...

If I had called, and he had answered me,.... Mr. Broughton reads the words, "if I cry, will he answer me?" as if Job had some doubt upon his mind whether God would vouchsafe to answer him, though he should make his supplication to him, as he proposed; seeing he had so sorely afflicted him, and still continued his hand upon him; or the words may be rendered, "though I have called, and he has answered" q, in times past. Job was a praying person, he had often prayed to God in his closet, and in his family, for himself, and for his children, and for his friends, and he had found God to be a God hearing and answering prayer, but seems to question whether he would answer him now, if he did pray to him:

yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice, or "would hearken" r, at this time, and under the present circumstances; or should he, the mercy would be so great, that he could hardly believe it; so sometimes through joy men cannot believe what they hear and see, as the apostles, when Christ appeared to them after his resurrection; or as it was with the Jews returned from Babylon, they were like them that dream, they could scarcely tell whether their deliverance was a real fact, or whether they only dreamed of it, see Luk 24:41; so Job intimates, that should he pray to God, and be heard and delivered, it would be so astonishing and transporting, that at first he should not be able to give credit to it; or, however, he should not believe that it was for his prayers and supplications, for any worth and value, virtue and efficacy, there was in them, that he was heard; but it must be purely for his mercy's sake, for the sake of the mediation of Christ, and because these prayers were the breathings of his own spirit: or else the sense is, that though he had heard and answered him formerly, when he prayed in a supplicating way, yet if he should contend with him in a judicial way, and insist upon his own righteousness, and present his supplication to God on that account, he could never expect to be heard; and, indeed, he could not believe he should be heard on any account, so long as his present sufferings lasted; which seems to be the sense of what follows, where he gives his reasons for such belief, or rather unbelief.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 9:16 The Hiphil imperfect in the apodosis of this conditional sentence expresses what would (not) happen if God answered the summons.

Geneva Bible: Job 9:16 If I ( l ) had called, and he had answered me; [yet] would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. ( l ) While I am in pain I cannot break...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Job 9:1-35 - --1 Job acknowledges God's justice.22 Man's innocency is not to be condemned by afflictions.

Maclaren: Job 9:1-35 - --The End Of The Lord' "Then Job answered the Lord, and said, 2. I know that Thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from Thee...

MHCC: Job 9:14-21 - --Job is still righteous in his own eyes, Job 32:1, and this answer, though it sets forth the power and majesty of God, implies that the question betwee...

Matthew Henry: Job 9:14-21 - -- What Job had said of man's utter inability to contend with God he here applies to himself, and in effect despairs of gaining his favour, which (some...

Keil-Delitzsch: Job 9:16-20 - -- 16 If when I called He really answered, I could not believe that He would hearken to me; 17 He would rather crush me in a tempest, And only multi...

Constable: Job 4:1--14:22 - --B. The First Cycle of Speeches between Job and His Three Friends chs. 4-14 The two soliloquies of Job (c...

Constable: Job 9:13-24 - --The arbitrary actions of God 9:13-24 Rahab (v. 13) was a name ancient Near Easterners us...

Guzik: Job 9:1-35 - --Job 9 - Job's Reply to Bildad A. Job's frustration with the power and majesty of God. 1. (1-13) Job praises the wisdom and strength of God, though i...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Job (Book Introduction) JOB A REAL PERSON.--It has been supposed by some that the book of Job is an allegory, not a real narrative, on account of the artificial character of ...

JFB: Job (Outline) THE HOLINESS OF JOB, HIS WEALTH, &c. (Job 1:1-5) SATAN, APPEARING BEFORE GOD, FALSELY ACCUSES JOB. (Job 1:6-12) SATAN FURTHER TEMPTS JOB. (Job 2:1-8)...

TSK: Job (Book Introduction) A large aquatic animal, perhaps the extinct dinosaur, plesiosaurus, the exact meaning is unknown. Some think this to be a crocodile but from the desc...

TSK: Job 9 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Job 9:1, Job acknowledges God’s justice; Job 9:22, Man’s innocency is not to be condemned by afflictions.

Poole: Job 9 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 9 Job’ s answer: man cannot stand in judgment with God, because of his justice, wisdom, and power, which are unsearchable, Job 9:1-11 ...

MHCC: Job (Book Introduction) This book is so called from Job, whose prosperity, afflictions, and restoration, are here recorded. He lived soon after Abraham, or perhaps before tha...

MHCC: Job 9 (Chapter Introduction) (Job 9:1-13) Job acknowledges God's justice. (Job 9:14-21) He is not able to contend with God. (Job 9:22-24) Men not to be judged by outward conditi...

Matthew Henry: Job (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Job This book of Job stands by itself, is not connected with any other, and is therefore to...

Matthew Henry: Job 9 (Chapter Introduction) In this and the following chapter we have Job's answer to Bildad's discourse, wherein he speaks honourably of God, humbly of himself, and feelingly...

Constable: Job (Book Introduction) Introduction Title This book, like many others in the Old Testament, got its name from...

Constable: Job (Outline) Outline I. Prologue chs. 1-2 A. Job's character 1:1-5 B. Job's calamitie...

Constable: Job Job Bibliography Andersen, Francis I. Job. Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries series. Leicester, Eng. and Downe...

Haydock: Job (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF JOB. INTRODUCTION. This Book takes its name from the holy man, of whom it treats; who, according to the more probable opinion, was ...

Gill: Job (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JOB This book, in the Hebrew copies, generally goes by this name, from Job, who is however the subject, if not the writer of it. In...

Gill: Job 9 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JOB 9 This and the following chapter contain Job's answer to Bildad, and in this he asserts the strict justice at God; which is suc...

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