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Text -- Job 9:26-35 (NET)
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9:26 They glide by like reed boats , like an eagle that swoops down on its prey .
9:27 If I say , ‘I will forget my complaint , I will change my expression and be cheerful ,’
9:28 I dread all my sufferings , for I know that you do not hold me blameless .
9:29 If I am guilty , why then weary myself in vain ?
9:30 If I wash myself with snow water , and make my hands clean with lye ,
9:31 then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
9:32 For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment .
9:33 Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both ,
9:34 who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid .
9:35 Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Complaint |
Afflictions and Adversities |
Job |
God |
Philosophy |
Daysman |
Depravity of Mankind |
Snow |
Blasphemy |
Eagle |
Intercession |
REED |
Jesus, The Christ |
Life |
MEDIATION; MEDIATOR |
APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE, 1 |
CHEER; CHEERFULNESS |
Soap |
Mediator |
Hand |
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NET Notes -> Job 9:26; Job 9:26; Job 9:26; Job 9:26; Job 9:27; Job 9:27; Job 9:27; Job 9:27; Job 9:28; Job 9:28; Job 9:28; Job 9:28; Job 9:29; Job 9:29; Job 9:29; Job 9:29; Job 9:30; Job 9:30; Job 9:31; Job 9:32; Job 9:32; Job 9:32; Job 9:33; Job 9:33; Job 9:33; Job 9:33; Job 9:33; Job 9:34; Job 9:34; Job 9:34; Job 9:34; Job 9:35; Job 9:35
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NET Notes: Job 9:27 In the Hiphil of בָּלַג (balag) corresponds to Arabic balija which means “to shine” and “to be m...
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NET Notes: Job 9:28 A. B. Davidson (Job, 73) appropriately notes that Job’s afflictions were the proof of his guilt in the estimation of God. If God held him innoce...
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NET Notes: Job 9:29 Here הֶבֶל (hevel, “breath, vapor, vanity”) is used as an adverb (adverbial accusative).
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NET Notes: Job 9:30 The word בֹּר (bor, “lye, potash”) does not refer to purity (Syriac, KJV, ASV), but refers to the ingredient used ...
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NET Notes: Job 9:31 The pointing in the MT gives the meaning “pit” or “ditch.” A number of expositors change the pointing to שֻׁ...
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NET Notes: Job 9:32 The sense of the verb “come” with “together in judgment” means “to confront one another in court.” See Ps 143:2.
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NET Notes: Job 9:33 The idiom of “lay his hand on the two of us” may come from a custom of a judge putting his hands on the two in order to show that he is ta...
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NET Notes: Job 9:34 “His terror” is metonymical; it refers to the awesome majesty of God that overwhelms Job and causes him to be afraid.
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