Job 9:30-35 NIV,NKJV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 9:33

Neither is there any day's-man - מוכיח בינינו beyneynu mochiach , a reprover, arguer, or umpire between us. Day's - Man, in our law, means an arbitrator, or umpire between party and party; as it were bestowing a day, or certain time on a certain day, to decree, judge, or decide a matter - Minshieu. Day is used in law for the day of appearance in court, either originally or upon assignation, for hearing a matter for trial - Idem. But arbitrator is the proper meaning of the term here: one... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 9:34

Let him take his rod away - In the Masoretic Bibles, the word שבטו shibto , his rod, is written with a large ט teth , as above; and as the letter in numerals stands for 9, the Masora says the word was thus written to show the nine calamities under which Job had suffered, and which he wished God to remove. As שבט shebet signifies, not only rod, but also scepter or the ensign of royalty, Job might here refer to God sitting in his majesty upon the judgment-seat; and this sight so... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 9:35

But it is not so with me - I am not in such circumstances as to plead with my Judge. I believe the sense of these words is nearly as Coverdale has expressed it: - For as longe as I am in soch fearfulnesse, I can make no answere. A natural picture of the state of a penitent soul, which needs no additional coloring. On the names of the constellations mentioned Job 9:9 , and again Job 38:31 , etc., much has been written, and to little effect. I have already, in the notes, expressed my... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:1-35

Job, in answer to Bildad, admits the truth of his arguments, but declines to attempt the justification which can alone entitle him to accept the favourable side of Bildad's alternative. Man cannot absolutely justify himself before God. It is in vain to attempt to do so. The contest is too unequal. On the one side perfect wisdom and absolute strength (verse 4); on the other, weakness, imperfection, ignorance. guilt (verses 17-20). And no "daysman," or umpire, between them; no third party to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:21-35

Job to Bildad: 4. The cries of a desparing soul. I. MAINTAINING HIS INNOCENCE . 1 . Attested by his conscience. "Though I were perfect;" or, better, "I am guiltless" (verse 21). Before God Job did not claim to be absolutely spotless, but merely to be free from such transgressions of the moral law as his friends insinuated he must have committed to render him obnoxious to those palpable tokens of Divine displeasure which had overtaken him. Against this, however, he protested as... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:25-35

Melancholy reflections. I. SELF - CONTEMPLATION IN REFERENCE TO THE PAST . His life has sped swiftly—like a courier, or the swift boat of the Euphrates or the Nile, or the swooping eagle ( Job 9:25 , Job 9:26 ), and without seeming prosperity. Here he perverts the history of the past; but memory as welt as reason is poisoned. II. IN REFERENCE TO THE FUTURE . ( Job 9:27 , Job 9:28 .) Hope has broken its wing. The effort to remove the gloom from his brow is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:30

If I wash myself with snow-water (comp. Psalms 51:7 ). If I should succeed in purging myself of all guilt, and establishing, so far as words can do it, my spotless innocence even then what advantage should I gain? Snow-water does not really cleanse what is defiled better than any other water, but a lively fancy might suppose it to do so. Job indulges in this fancy, but then checks himself, and adds a prosaic alternative. And make my hands never so clean; rather, and make my hands clean... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:30-31

Despair of purification. Job is possessed by a terrible thought. He imagines that God is so determined to have him as an object of condemnation that nothing he can do can set him right; even if he makes himself ever so clean, God will plunge him back in the mire, God will overwhelm him with guilt. This is, of course, a wholly false view of God, though it is not altogether inexcusable with Job in his ignorance and awful distress. I. GOD ONLY DESIRES OUR PURIFICATION . We may not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:31

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch . Yet would God with ease undo his work, show his purity to be impure, his righteousness to be filthy rags, and thus, as it were, replunge him in the mire and clay from which he had sought to free himself, and hold him forth a more loathsome wretch than ever. And mine own clothes shall abhor me . So loathsome would he be that his very garments, stained and fouled by his disease, would shrink away from him and hate to touch him. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:32

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him; and we should come together in judgment (comp. Job 9:2-14 ). On one of two conditions only, Job thinks, could the contest be even between himself and God. Neither condition, however, was (he thought) possible; and therefore no satisfactory judgment could take place. Recent commentators observe that the Christian scheme, which Job could not anticipate, provides almost a literal fulfilment of both conditions, since the God who is to... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 9:33

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 9:34

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 9:35

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:1-35

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:21-35

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:25-35

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:30

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:30-31

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:31

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:32

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