Job 9:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. ”

• Job 9:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Lo, he goeth by me - That is, he passes along - as in the silent movements of the heavenly bodies. “I see the evidence of his existence. I can see that God must be there - moving along by me in t...

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• Job 9:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Lo, he goeth (e) by me, and I see [him] not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. (e) I am not able to comprehend his works, which are common and daily before my eyes, much less in those thin...

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• Job 9:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 9:1-24 is Job's answer to the position taken up by Bildad, viz. that the Almighty cannot judge falsely ( Job 8:3 ). In Job 2 accepts the general principle that God judges according to merit....

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• Job 9:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Lo. Figure of speech. Asterismos . App-6.

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• Job 9:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not - He is incomprehensible in all his ways, and in all his works; and he must...

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• Job 9:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Lo, he goeth by me, &c.— Who, if he passeth by me, I cannot behold him: yea, while he glideth swiftly away, I perceive him not. Houbigant and Heath.

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• Job 9:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. Lo, he goeth by me. Not only nature, but man experiences the terrors of God's resistless power. I see Him...

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• Job 9:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 t...

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• Job 9:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He passeth on also. — This, again, is an expression Eliphaz had used in Job 4:15 . Here in words of great sublimity Job depicts the unapproachable majesty of God omnipotent, but invisible, and sho...

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• Job 9:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN Job 9:1-35 ; Job 10:1-22 Job SPEAKS IT 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...

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• Job 9:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Daysman” Job 9:1-35 Ponder the sublimity of the conceptions of God given in this magnificent passage. To God are attributed the earthquake that rocks the pillars on which the world rests,...

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• Job 9:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job now answered Bildad. He first admitted the truth of the general proposition, Of a truth I know that it is so; and then propounded the great question, which he subsequently proceeded to discuss...

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• Job 9:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (5) Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. (6) Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. (7) Which commandeth the sun,...

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• Job 9:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not ,.... This is expressive of the invisibility of God; for though the angels in heaven always behold his face, and men, in the works of creation, may see his et...

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• Job 9:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. Ver. 11. Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not ] As he is powerful in his deeds, so he is secret in his designs...

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• Job 9:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Lo he goeth by me Or besides , or before me, in my presence; that is, he worketh by his providence in ways of mercy or judgment. And I see him not I see the effects, but I cannot understand th...

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• Job 9:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  HOW CAN MAN BE JUST BEFORE GOD? (vv.1-13) Job's reply to Bildad occupies two Chapter s, 35 verses longer than Bildad's arguments had taken. But Job acknowledged, "Truly, I know it is so," that i...

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• Job 9:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Reply to Bildad. B. C. 1520.       1 Then Job answered and said,   2 I know it is so o...

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• Job 9:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He goeth, i.e. he worketh by his providence in ways of mercy or judgment. By me; or, besides or before me ; in my presence. I see him not; I see the effects, but I cannot understand the caus...

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• Job 9:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD Strongly affirms the truth of Bildad’s speech as to God’s justice ( Job 9:1 ). Declares the impossibility of fallen man establishing his righteousness with God. The same, a...

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• Job 9:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 9:5 . Removeth the mountains, by earthquakes. The great mountain ranges have continuous caverns, with interior rivers and lakes. Where liases, iron and sulphur abound, volcanoes form their bed...

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• Job 9:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Which doeth great things past finding out. Job’s idea of what God is to mankind He regards the Eternal as-- I. Inscrutable. 1. In His works. “Which doeth great things past finding out.” H...

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• Job 9:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 9:1-18 Job, in answer to Bildad, admits the truth of his arguments, but declines to attempt the justification which can alone entitle him to accept the favourable side of Bil...

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• Job 9:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job's Defense Against Suspicion. Both Eliphaz and Bildad had attempted to fasten upon Job some specific wrong, seeking from him a confession to that effect. He therefore defends himself against t...

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• Job 9:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Timothy 6:16 ; Job 23:8 ; Job 23:9 ; Job 35:14 ; Psalms 77:19

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• Job 9:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Goeth — He works by his providence in ways of mercy or judgment. Passeth — He goeth from place to place: from one action to another: he speaks of God after the manner of men.

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