Job 9:31

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch - God would treat me as if he should throw me into the gutter, and as if I were wholly defiled and polluted...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own (z) clothes shall abhor me. (z) Whatever I would use to cover my filthiness with, it would discl...
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

abhor. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. And mine own clothes shall abhor me - Such is thine infinite purity, when...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
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...
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

(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...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Yet shall thou plunge me in the ditch ,.... In the filthy ditch of sin, the pit wherein is no water, the horrible pit, the mire and clay, in which a...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. Ver. 31. Thou shalt plunge me in the ditch ] Thou shalt declare me to...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
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

In the ditch, i.e. in miry and puddle water, whereby I shall become most filthy. But as Job's washing, so God's plunging him, &c., is not under...
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

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
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

yet shalt Thou plunge me in the ditch, into a sink or sewer, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. This would happen while he was still naked after...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 59:6 ; Isaiah 64:6 ; Job 15:6 ; Job 9:20 ; Philippians 3:8 ; Philippians 3:9
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Yet — God would prove him to be a most guilty creature, notwithstanding all his purity before men. Abhor — I shall be so filthy, that my own clothe...

³¹ Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhorf me.

Related Commentaries of Job 9:31

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit 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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 9:31