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Text -- Job 9:1-19 (NET)
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Job’s Reply to Bildad
9:1 Then Job answered :
9:2 “Truly , I know that this is so . But how can a human be just before God ?
9:3 If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand .
9:4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength – who has resisted him and remained safe ?
9:5 He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger ;
9:6 he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble ;
9:7 he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars ;
9:8 he alone spreads out the heavens , and treads on the waves of the sea ;
9:9 he makes the Bear , Orion , and the Pleiades , and the constellations of the southern sky;
9:10 he does great and unsearchable things , and wonderful things without number .
9:11 If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by , I cannot perceive him.
9:12 If he snatches away , who can turn him back ? Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing ?’
9:13 God does not restrain his anger ; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed .
The Impossibility of Facing God in Court
9:14 “How much less, then , can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!
9:15 Although I am innocent , I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy .
9:16 If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice –
9:17 he who crushes me with a tempest , and multiplies my wounds for no reason .
9:18 He does not allow me to recover my breath , for he fills me with bitterness .
9:19 If it is a matter of strength , most certainly he is the strong one ! And if it is a matter of justice , he will say, ‘Who will summon me?’
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Job |
Complaint |
God |
Philosophy |
Astronomy |
Afflictions and Adversities |
Doubting |
Blasphemy |
Pleiades |
Orion |
Arcturus |
Depravity of Mankind |
Impenitence |
Power |
Humility |
Stars |
Constellations |
Sea Monster |
Mountain |
Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Job 9:1; Job 9:2; Job 9:2; Job 9:2; Job 9:2; Job 9:2; Job 9:3; Job 9:3; Job 9:3; Job 9:4; Job 9:4; Job 9:4; Job 9:4; Job 9:4; Job 9:4; Job 9:5; Job 9:5; Job 9:6; Job 9:6; Job 9:7; Job 9:7; Job 9:7; Job 9:7; Job 9:8; Job 9:8; Job 9:9; Job 9:9; Job 9:9; Job 9:9; Job 9:10; Job 9:10; Job 9:11; Job 9:11; Job 9:11; Job 9:11; Job 9:12; Job 9:12; Job 9:13; Job 9:13; Job 9:13; Job 9:14; Job 9:14; Job 9:14; Job 9:14; Job 9:14; Job 9:14; Job 9:15; Job 9:15; Job 9:15; Job 9:15; Job 9:15; Job 9:16; Job 9:16; Job 9:17; Job 9:17; Job 9:17; Job 9:18; Job 9:18; Job 9:18; Job 9:19; Job 9:19; Job 9:19; Job 9:19
NET Notes: Job 9:1 This speech of Job in response to Bildad falls into two large sections, chs. 9 and 10. In ch. 9 he argues that God’s power and majesty prevent h...
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NET Notes: Job 9:2 The point of Job’s rhetorical question is that man cannot be justified as against God, because God is too powerful and too clever – he con...
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NET Notes: Job 9:3 This use of the imperfect as potential imperfect assumes that the human is the subject, that in a dispute with God he could not answer one of God̵...
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NET Notes: Job 9:4 The use of שָׁלֵם (shalem) in the Qal is rare. It has been translated “remain safe” by E. Dhorme, R...
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NET Notes: Job 9:5 This line beginning with the relative pronoun can either be read as a parallel description of God, or it can be subordinated by the relative pronoun t...
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NET Notes: Job 9:6 The verb הִתְפַלָּצ (hitfallats) is found only here, but the root seems clearly to mean ...
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NET Notes: Job 9:8 The reference is probably to the waves of the sea. This is the reading preserved in NIV and NAB, as well as by J. Crenshaw, “Wÿdorek `al-ba...
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NET Notes: Job 9:10 There is probably great irony in Job’s using this same verse as in 5:9. But Job’s meaning here is different than Eliphaz.
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NET Notes: Job 9:11 Like the mountains, Job knows that God has passed by and caused him to shake and tremble, but he cannot understand or perceive the reasons.
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NET Notes: Job 9:12 The verb is the Hiphil imperfect (potential again) from שׁוּב (shuv). In this stem it can mean “turn back, refute,...
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NET Notes: Job 9:13 The verb שָׁחַח (shakhakh) means “to be prostrate” or “to crouch.” Here the enemies are pr...
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NET Notes: Job 9:14 The LXX goes a different way after changing the first person to the third: “Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.”
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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.
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NET Notes: Job 9:17 חִנָּם (khinnam) is adverbial, meaning “gratuitously, without a cause, for no reason, undeservedly.” S...
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NET Notes: Job 9:18 The meaning of the word is “to satiate; to fill,” as in “drink to the full, be satisfied.” Job is satiated – in the nega...
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