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Job 9:1 open_in_new
answered. responded. See note on Job 4:1.
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Job 9:2 open_in_new
how. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. This is the one great question of the book.
man. mortal man. Hebrew. 'enosh. App-14.
GOD. Hebrew El. App-4.
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Job 9:3 open_in_new
will. desire to.
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Job 9:4 open_in_new
who... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. Compare 2 Chronicles 36:13.Isaiah 48:4.
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Job 9:5 open_in_new
they know. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia. App-6.
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Job 9:8 open_in_new
waves of the sea. The celebrated Mugah Codex (the earliest quoted in the Massorah itself), App-30, reads "cloud": i.e. thick cloud.
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Job 9:9 open_in_new
Arcturus. Hebrew. 'ash.. name still connected with "the Great Bear" (the more ancient name being "the greater sheepfold": Arab, al naish, the assembled (as in. fold). See Job 38:31; Job 38:32, and App-12.
Orion. Hebrew. kesil. Compare Job 38:31.Amos 5:8. A strong one, or the coming prince. See App-12.
Pleiades. Hebrew. kimah. the congregation of the judge. See Job 38:31; Job 38:32.Amos 5:8, and App-12. A constellation in the neck of Taurus.
chambers of the south: i.e. the [hidden] recesses, or the invisible spaces; on the latitude of Job's residence.
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Job 9:11 open_in_new
Lo. Figure of speech. Asterismos. App-6.
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Job 9:12 open_in_new
Behold. Figure of speech. Asterismos. App-6.
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Job 9:13 open_in_new
GOD. Hebrew. Eloah. App-4.
withdraw. avert.
helpers. confederates.
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Job 9:15 open_in_new
not answer. not [dare to] answer.
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Job 9:18 open_in_new
breath. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.
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Job 9:21 open_in_new
my soul. myself. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
life. Hebrew. chayai.
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Job 9:22 open_in_new
the wicked. a lawless one. Hebrew. rasha, App-44.
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Job 9:24 open_in_new
covereth: i.e. so that they cannot discern between right and wrong.
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Job 9:25 open_in_new
post. runner, or courier. Compare Esther 3:13; Esther 3:15.
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Job 9:26 open_in_new
swift ships. ships of ebeh. Hence vessels of bulrush (eb). vessels of desire ('abeh), i.e. desiring to reach their haven; vessels of enmity ('eybah), i.e. pirate vessels; or vessels of the Nile ('abai, Abyssinian for Nile). Others, vessels of Joppa. Perhaps the last is best.
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Job 9:27 open_in_new
complaint. complaining.
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Job 9:29 open_in_new
why... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
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Job 9:30 open_in_new
never so clean. clean with soap.
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Job 9:31 open_in_new
abhor. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia.
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Job 9:33 open_in_new
Neither is there. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "Oh that there were".
any Daysman. any umpire, arbiter, or mediator. In Job's case He was found in Elihu; in ours, in Christ.
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Job 9:35 open_in_new
Then would I. Fain would I.