“ If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. ”
If the scourge slay suddenly - If calamity comes in a sudden and unexpected manner. Dr. Good, following Reiske, translates this,” if he suddenly slay the oppressor,” understanding the word scourg...
If the scourge (q) slay suddenly, he will (r) laugh at the trial of the innocent. (q) That is, the wicked. (r) This is spoken according to our apprehension, as though he would say, If God destroyed...
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....
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. If - `While (His) scourge ( Isaiah 28:15 ) slays suddenly (both the perfect and the wicked, Job 9:22 ), He laughs at...
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...
The scourge slay suddenly. — Probably meaning that in the case of hidden calamity overtaking an innocent man, He, God, will laugh at it: that is to say, take no more notice of it than if it furnish...
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...
(22) В¶ This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. (23) If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. (24) The earth is given into t...
If the scourge slay suddenly ,.... Not Satan, as Jarchi and Bar Tzemach; but any sore calamity which surrounds a man, lashes, cuts, and distresses him, as a whip or scourge; such as any of God's sor...
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. Ver. 23. If the scourge slay suddenly ] By scourge here is meant a common calamity, such as rides circuit, compassing a co...
This one thing In the other things which you have spoken of, God's greatness, power, and justice, I do not contend with you; but this one thing I do, and must affirm against you. Therefore I said...
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...
22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. 23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. 24 The earth is giv...
If the scourge slay suddenly; either, 1. If some common and deadly judgment come upon a people, which destroys both good and bad. Or, 2. If God inflicts some grievous and unexpected stroke upon...
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 Insists that God Visits also the Righteous with Affliction
2 Samuel 14:15 ; 2 Samuel 14:17 ; Ezekiel 14:19-21 ; Ezekiel 21:13 ; Hebrews 11:36 ; Hebrews 11:37 ; Job 1:13-19 ; Job 2:7 ; Job 4:7 ; Job 8:20 ; Psalms 44:22
Suddenly — If some common judgment come upon a people. Laugh — God will be well pleased, to see how the same scourge, which is the perdition of the wicked, is the trial of the innocent, and of thei...