Job 9:16

Acts 12:14-16; Exodus 6:9; Job 29:24; Judges 6:13; Luke 24:41; Psalms 116:1; Psalms 116:2; Psalms 126:1; Psalms 18:6; Psalms 66:18-20

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If I had called, and he had answered me - It is remarked by Schultens, that the expressions in these verses are all taken from courts of justice....
Arno Geneva Study Bible

If I (l) had called, and he had answered me; [yet] would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. (l) While I am in pain I cannot break fo...
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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. If I had called, and he had answered - I coul...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

If I had called, and he had answered me— But if I should call, that he might answer me, I could not easily believe that he would hear my voice;...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. If I had called, and he had answered me...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

'If God allowed me to plead my cause, I cannot believe He would condescend to attend to me.' Job feels that God is indifferent to his cry for justice...
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

(13) If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. (14) В¶ How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to r...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If I had called, and he had answered me ,.... Mr. Broughton reads the words, "if I cry, will he answer me?" as if Job had some doubt upon his mind w...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

If I had called, and he had answered me; [yet] would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. Ver. 16. If l had called and he had answer...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

If I had called That is, prayed, as the word קראתי, karati , commonly means, namely, unto my judge for a favourable sentence, as he had just said;...
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

14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? 15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not an...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

If I had called, i.e. prayed, as this word is commonly used, to wit, unto my Judge, for a favourable sentence, as he now said, and therefore it was...
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 es...
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

Which doeth great things past finding out. Job’s idea of what God is to mankind He regards the Eternal as-- I. Inscrutable. 1. In His wor...
The Biblical Illustrator

Yet would I not believe that He had hearkened unto my voice. Prerequisites to belief It is hard to believe in that, some faint earnest of which...
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

If I had called, and He had answered me, if Job's pleading would apparently find favor, yet would I not believe that He had hearkened unto my voice;...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Yet — I could not believe that God had indeed granted my desire, because I am still full of the tokens of his displeasure; and therefore should con...

¹⁶ If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

Related Commentaries of Job 9:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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 Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 9:16