why... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? - The word “if,” here introduced by our translators, greatly obscures the sense. The meaning evidently...
[If] I be wicked, why then (x) labour I in vain? (x) Why does God not destroy me at once? thus he speaks according to the infirmity of the flesh.
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 Go...
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? If I be wicked - If I am the sinner you suppose me to be, in vain should I labor to counterfeit joy, and...
If I be wicked, &c.— I shall be esteemed as guilty; why, therefore, should I take so much pains? Houbigant. Let me be condemned, why should...
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? The if is better omitted: I (am treated by God, once fo...
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...
If I be wicked] RV 'I shall be condemned.'
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...
“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...
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...
(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...
[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain ?] If he was that wicked person, that hypocrite, Bildad and his other friends took him to be, it was in...
Job 9:29 [If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? Ver. 29. If I be wicked ] Heb. I am wicked, sc. in your thoughts, and you have so earnes...
If I be wicked, &c . The Hebrew, אנכי ארשׁע anochi ershang , is, I am , or, I shall be wicked , or guilty , without any supposition. That is...
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...
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 h...
Heb. I shall be wicked , or guilty , to wit, before thee. Whether I be holy or wicked, if I dispute with thee, I shall be found guilty. Or thus, I...
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 es...
Job 9:5 . Removeth the mountains, by earthquakes. The great mountain ranges have continuous caverns, with interior rivers and lakes. Where liases,...
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 th...
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...
Job Insists that God Visits also the Righteous with Affliction
If I be wicked, rather, "I am to be guilty," declared to be wicked by the decree of God, why, then, labor I in vain? It was a useless endeavor on h...
Jeremiah 2:35 ; Job 10:14-17 ; Job 10:7 ; Job 21:16 ; Job 21:17 ; Job 21:27 ; Job 22:5-30 ; Job 9:22 ; Psalms 73:13
I shall — I shall be used like a wicked man still. Why — Why then should I comfort myself with vain hopes of deliverance, as thou advisest me.
29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?