“ Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhorf me. ”
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch - God would treat me as if he should throw me into the gutter, and as if I were wholly defiled and polluted. The meaning is, God would not admit the proofs w...
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own (z) clothes shall abhor me. (z) Whatever I would use to cover my filthiness with, it would disclose me even more.
Job again takes up his complaint, but in a quieter tone, so that he is able to imagine after all a way in which he might maintain his cause before God. He complains first of the shortness of his life...
abhor. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia.
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. And mine own clothes shall abhor me - Such is thine infinite purity, when put in opposition to the purity of man, that it w...
If I wash myself, &c.— i.e. Though I should appeal to my former life, spent in a religious, holy, and virtuous manner, yet this will be in vain; as I find, from the increase of my calamities, t...
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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...
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...
(28) I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. (29) If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? (30) If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean...
UNIVERSAL DEPRAVITY ‘If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.’ Job 9:30-31 I. Is there...
Yet shall thou plunge me in the ditch ,.... In the filthy ditch of sin, the pit wherein is no water, the horrible pit, the mire and clay, in which all unregenerate men are, and to which hypocrites r...
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. Ver. 31. Thou shalt plunge me in the ditch ] Thou shalt declare me to be no less loathsome than he that, having fallen i...
If I wash myself with snow-water , &c. If I clear myself from all imputations, and fully prove my innocence before men; yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch That is, in miry and puddle water,...
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...
25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. 27 If I say, I will forget m...
In the ditch, i.e. in miry and puddle water, whereby I shall become most filthy. But as Job's washing, so God's plunging him, &c., is not understood really, as if God would make him filthy; but...
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...
If I say, I will forget my complaint. Concerning Job’s sufferings I. As too great to render any efforts of self-consolation effective. Three things are suggested. 1. A valuable power of mind...
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
Isaiah 59:6 ; Isaiah 64:6 ; Job 15:6 ; Job 9:20 ; Philippians 3:8 ; Philippians 3:9
Yet — God would prove him to be a most guilty creature, notwithstanding all his purity before men. Abhor — I shall be so filthy, that my own clothes, if they had any sense in them, would abhor to t...