“ For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. ”
For he breaketh me - He is overwhelming me with a tempest; that is, with the storms of wrath. He shows me no mercy. The idea seems to be, that God acted toward him not as a judge determining matt...
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds (m) without cause. (m) I am not able to feel my sins so great, as I feel the weight of his plagues; and this he speaks to condemn his dul...
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....
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. He breaketh me with a tempest - The Targum, Syriac, and Arabic have this sense: He powerfully smites even every hair of my...
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...
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...
He breaketh me... — This is one of the three passages in which this word is found, the other two being Genesis 3:15 , “It shall bruise ,” &c., and Psalms 139:11 , “If I say the darkness shal...
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...
“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,...
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...
(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...
For he breaketh me with a tempest ,.... Which rises suddenly, comes powerfully, and carries all before it irresistibly; hereby signifying the nature of his present sore afflictions, which came upon...
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. Ver. 17. For he breaketh me with a tempest ] q.d. This is one thing also that maketh me think I am not heard, because...
For he breaketh me with a tempest As with a tempest; that is, unexpectedly, violently, and irrecoverably. This is the reason of his forementioned diffidence, that even when God seemed to answer his...
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...
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....
This is the reason of his foregoing diffidence, that even when God seemed to answer him in words, yet the course of his actions towards him was of a quite contrary nature and tendency. With a tempes...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 13:13 ; Isaiah 28:17 ; Jeremiah 23:19 ; Job 1:14-19 ; Job 16:14 ; Job 16:17 ; Job 2:13 ; Job 2:3 ; Job 2:7 ; Job 34:6 ; John 15:25 ; John 9:3 ; Matthew 12:20 ; Matthew 7:27 ; P...
Breaketh — Unexpectedly, violently, and irrecoverably. Cause — Not simply without any desert of his, but without any special cause of such singular afflictions; and peculiar and extraordinary guilt...