Job 9:2

I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be (a) just with God?

(a) Job here answers Eliphaz and Bildad's oration, touching the justice of God, and his innocency, confessing God to be infinite in justice and man to be nothing in respect.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I know it is so of a truth - Job here refers, undoubtedly, to something that had been said before; but whether it is to the general strain of rem...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 gene...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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 cann...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? I know it is so of a truth - I acknowledge the general truth of the maxims you hav...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? I know it is so - that God does not "pervert justice" ( Job 8:3 ). But ho...
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 'Int...
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 t...
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...
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 que...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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 an...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I know [it is] so of a truth ,.... That is, that God is just, and does not pervert justice and judgment, as Bildad had observed, Job 8:3 ; Job was...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? Ver. 2. I know it is so of a truth ] Bildad's argument was, God, who hath punis...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I know it is so of a truth Namely, as you say, that God must be just and righteous; that purity and uprightness are qualities belonging to him; tha...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I know it is so, to wit, as you say, that God is just in all his ways, that he doth ordinarily bless the righteous, and punish the wicked. But how...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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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,...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
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 alon...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job's Defense Against Suspicion. Both Eliphaz and Bildad had attempted to fasten upon Job some specific wrong, seeking from him a confession to t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 8:46 ; Job 14:3 ; Job 14:4 ; Job 25:4 ; Job 32:2 ; Job 33:9 ; Job 34:5 ; Job 4:17 ; Psalms 130:3 ; Psalms 143:2 ; Romans 3:20
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I know — That God is just in all his ways, that he doth ordinarily bless the righteous, and punish the wicked. Before God — And I know that no man...

² I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

Related Commentaries of Job 9:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 9:2