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Text -- Job 9:1-9 (NET)
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Context
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;
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Complaint |
Job |
Philosophy |
God |
Astronomy |
Orion |
Pleiades |
Arcturus |
Impenitence |
Stars |
Depravity of Mankind |
Earthquakes |
Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena |
Power |
Mountain |
Earth |
Heaven |
Heart |
TEMAN |
Eclipse |
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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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