“ If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. ”
If he will contend with him - That is, if God enters into a controversy with man. If he chooses to charge crime on him, and to hold him responsible for his deeds. The language here is taken from...
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a (b) thousand. (b) Of a thousand things, which God could lay to his charge, man cannot answer him one.
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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DISCOURSE: 458 THE FOLLY OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PRESUMPTION Job 9:2-4 . How should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. He is wise in hea...
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. If he will contend with him - God is so holy, and his law so strict, that if he will enter into judgment with his creatures, the m...
If he will contend— To contend is a judicial term, and signifies properly to wage law. To answer him one of a thousand, signifies to justify himself for one of the thousand crimes which shall b...
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. If he (God) will contend, with him - literally, 'deign to enter into judgment:' 'If it were His good, pleasure х yachpot...
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...
If he will contend with him. — If man choose to contend with God, he cannot answer Him one question of a thousand, once in a thousand times.
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...
(1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? (3) If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. (4) He is wise in hear...
If he will contend with him ,.... If God will contend with man, so Sephorno; enter into a controversy with him, litigate and dispute the point in law, whether he is just or not, man cannot answer to...
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. Ver. 3. If he will contend with him ] If any one would be so fool hardy, or adventurous, as to dispute with God about his judgm...
If he will contend with him If God be pleased to contend with man, namely, in judgment, or to debate, or plead with him; he cannot answer him one of a thousand One accusation among a thousand whi...
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...
Job's Reply to Bildad. B. C. 1520. 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so o...
If God be pleased to contend (to wit, in judgment; debate or plead; for so this word is oft used, as Hosea 2:2 , Hosea 4:1 Micah 6:1 ; compare Isaiah 45:9 ) with man. One of a thousand; ei...
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...
Then Job answered and said. Job’s answer to Bildad Job was utterly unaware of the circumstances under which he was suffering. If Job had known that he was to be an example, that a great battle...
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...
1 John 1:8 ; 1 John 3:20 ; Isaiah 57:15 ; Isaiah 57:16 ; Job 10:2 ; Job 23:3-7 ; Job 31:35-37 ; Job 33:13 ; Job 34:14 ; Job 34:15 ; Job 40:2 ; Job 9:20 ; Job 9:32 ; Job 9:33 ; Psalms 1...
One — One accusation among a thousand which God shall produce against him.