1 John 1:8; Isaiah 1:16-18; Jeremiah 2:22; Jeremiah 4:14; Proverbs 28:13; Psalms 26:6; Romans 10:3
If I wash myself with snow water - If I should make myself as pure as possible, and should become, in my view, perfectly holy. Snow water, it see...
If I wash (y) myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; (y) Though I seem pure in my own eyes, yet all is but corruption before God....
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...
never so clean . clean with soap.
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; If I wash myself with snow water - Supposed to have a more detergent quality than...
If I wash myself, &c.— i.e. Though I should appeal to my former life, spent in a religious, holy, and virtuous manner, yet this will be in vain...
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; Snow water - thought to be more cleansing than common water, owing to the...
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...
And make, etc.] RM 'And cleanse my hands with lye,' or potash. He means that he is really righteous, but God is deteimined to make him seem wicked....
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...
UNIVERSAL DEPRAVITY ‘If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own cloth...
If I wash myself with snow water ,.... As it came from heaven, or flowed from the mountains covered with snow, as Lebanon, see Jeremiah 18:14 ; or...
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; Ver. 30. If I wash myself with snow water ] Some take the former words, I am w...
If I wash myself with snow-water , &c. If I clear myself from all imputations, and fully prove my innocence before men; yet shalt thou plunge m...
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...
If I wash myself; either, 1. Really, by sanctification, cleansing my heart and life from all filthiness; or rather, 2. Declaratively or judicia...
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...
If I wash myself with snow water. An estimate of the morality that is without godliness In the eyes of the pure God, the man who has made the m...
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 wash myself with snow-water, which was considered as containing greater cleansing power than ordinary water, and make my hands never so clean,...
If — If I clear myself from all imputations, and fully prove my innocency before men.
30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;