Job 9:25

Esther 8:14; James 4:14; Job 7:6; Job 7:7; Psalms 39:11; Psalms 39:5; Psalms 89:47; Psalms 90:10; Psalms 90:9

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now my days are swifter than a post - Than a courier, runner, or racer, רוּץ rûts . Vulgate, cursore ; Septuagint, δρομέως dromeōs ,...
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 Go...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

post . runner, or courier. Compare Esther 3:13 ; Esther 3:15 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. Swifter than a post - מני רץ minni rats, than a runner. The light-footed messe...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. A post - a courier. In the wide Persian empire such couriers, on drome...
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

A post] RM a 'runner' with messages.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Swifter than a post. — The runner, with his messages and dispatches. He now turns away from the contemplation of God and His dealings to that of hi...
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

(22) В¶ This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. (23) If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the tri...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now my days are swifter than a post ,.... Or "than a runner" a in a race, in order to obtain the prize; or than one that rides post, or runs on foot...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. Ver. 25. Now my days are swifter than a post, &c. ] Not my prosperous d...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Now my days The days of my life; are swifter than a post Who rides upon swift horses; they see no good I enjoy no good in them; seeing being of...
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

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...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

What he had said of the calamities which God usually inflicted upon good men, he now exemplifieth in himself. My days; the days, either of my prosp...
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

Now my days are swifter than a post. .. as the swift ships. Illustrations of life I. The text teaches us the brevity of human life. “My days ar...
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 Insists that God Visits also the Righteous with Affliction
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Now, my days are swifter than a post, flying away more swiftly than the motion of a courier, or runner; they flee away, they see no good; Job despa...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Now — What he had said of the calamities which God frequently inflicts upon good men, he now exemplifies in himself. My days — The days of my life....

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

Related Commentaries of Job 9:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 9:25