Job 9:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. ”

• Job 9:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 ca...

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• Job 9:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  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 forth into many inconveniences although I still know...

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• Job 9:16 - 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 9:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. If I had called, and he had answered - I could scarcely suppose, such is his majesty and such h...

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• Job 9:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  If I had called, and he had answered me— But if I should call, that he might answer me, I could not easily believe that he would hear my voice; Job 9:17 . Since he hath broken me with a tempest...

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• Job 9:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened un...

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• Job 9:16 - 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 9:16 - 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 9:16 - 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 9:16 - 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 9:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (13) If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. (14) В¶ How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? (15) Whom, though I were righteous...

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• Job 9:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 h...

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• Job 9:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  If I had called, and he had answered me; [yet] would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. Ver. 16. If l had called and he had answered ] If, in confidence of mine own righteousness,...

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• Job 9:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If I had called That is, prayed, as the word קראתי, karati , commonly means, namely, unto my judge for a favourable sentence, as he had just said; and he had answered me Had given me what I aske...

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• Job 9:16 - 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 9:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?   15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge....

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• Job 9:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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 callin...

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• Job 9:16 - 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 9:16 - 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 9:16 - 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 9:16 - 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 9:16 - 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 9:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 12:14-16 ; Exodus 6:9 ; Job 29:24 ; Judges 6:13 ; Luke 24:41 ; Psalms 116:1 ; Psalms 116:2 ; Psalms 126:1 ; Psalms 18:6 ; Psalms 66:18-20

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• Job 9:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Yet — 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...

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