Job 9:32 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. ”

Job 9:32 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For he is not a man as I am - He is infinitely superior to me in majesty and power. The idea is, that the contest would be unequal, and that he might as well surrender without bringing the matter...
Job 9:32 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Job 9:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. For he is not a man as I am - I cannot contend with him as with one of my fellows in a court of...
Job 9:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgmen...
Job 9:32 - 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...
Job 9:32 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For he is not a man, as I am... — Is not that confession, if we believe that such a daysman as Job longed for has been given, itself a witness that it came from God, and was given by God? The light...
Job 9:32 - 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...
Job 9:32 - 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,...
Job 9:32 - 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...
Job 9:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
Job 9:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For [he is] not a man, as I [am] ,.... For though the parts and members of an human body are sometimes ascribed to him, yet these are to be understood by an anthropopathy, speaking after the manner...
Job 9:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment. Ver. 32. For he is not a man as I am ] He is not such a one, nor can be, as I am, and must be...
Job 9:32 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For he is not a man as I am But one infinitely superior to me in majesty and power, wisdom and justice. That I should answer him That I should presume to debate my cause with him, or answer his...
Job 9:32 - 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...
Job 9:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Job 9:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He is not a man, as I am; but one infinitely superior to me in majesty, and power, and wisdom, and justice. That I should answer him; that I should presume to debate my cause with him, or answer...
Job 9:32 - 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...
Job 9:32 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Job 9:32-33 I. This desire of Job's is to be studied, not merely as the experience of an individual under peculiar circumstances, but as a human experience, the germs of which are in man as man;...
Job 9:32 - 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...
Job 9:32 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Job 9:32 - 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...
Job 9:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Insists that God Visits also the Righteous with Affliction
Job 9:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 3:20 ; 1 Samuel 16:7 ; Ecclesiastes 6:10 ; Isaiah 45:9 ; Jeremiah 49:19 ; Job 13:18-23 ; Job 23:3-7 ; Job 33:12 ; Job 35:5-7 ; Numbers 23:19 ; Psalms 143:2 ; Romans 9:20
Job 9:32 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A man — But one infinitely superior to me in majesty, and power, and wisdom, and justice. That — That I should presume to debate my cause with him. Come — Face to face, to plead upon equal terms.

Job 9:32 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 9:32 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 9:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 9:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 9:32 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 9:32 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 9:32 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 9:32 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 9:32 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 9:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 9:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 9:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 9:32 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 9:32 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 9:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 9:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 9:32 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 9:32 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Job 9:32 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 9:32 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 9:32 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 9:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 9:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 9:32 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes