Job 9:30-33 NIV

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Job 9:25-35

25-35 What little need have we of pastimes, and what great need to redeem time, when it runs on so fast towards eternity! How vain the enjoyments of time, which we may quite lose while yet time continues! The remembrance of having done our duty will be pleasing afterwards; so will not the remembrance of having got worldly wealth, when it is all lost and gone. Job's complaint of God, as one that could not be appeased and would not relent, was the language of his corruption. There is a Mediator,... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 9:22-35

Job Insists that God Visits also the Righteous with Affliction v. 22. This is one thing, it is all one, or, it makes no difference whether a person is innocent or guilty; therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked; this statement Job feels constrained to make against God. v. 23. If the scourge slay suddenly, namely, by means of any calamity, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent, God will mock at the despair of the guiltless, not permitting Himself to be disturbed in... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 9:1-35

B.—Job’s reply: Assertion of his innocence and a mournful description of the incomprehensibleness of his suffering as a dark horrible destinyJob 9-101. God is certainly the Almighty and Ever-Righteous One, who is to be feared; but His power is too terrible for mortal man:Job 9:2-121 Then Job answered and said,2 I know it is so of a truth:but how should man be just with God?3 If he will contend with Him,he cannot answer Him one of a thousand.4 He is wise in heart, and mighty... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Job 9:1-35

“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 that rocks the pillars on which the world rests, Job 9:6 ; the eclipse which hides the heavenly bodies, Job 9:7 ; the storm in which he bows the heavens and treads majestically on the waves, Job 9:8 ; and the creation of the constellations, Job 9:9 . Who can dare to argue with or call to account so great a God as this? Job 9:10-19 . Even if a man be... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 9:1-35

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 question, which he subsequently proceeded to discuss in the light of his own suffering. How can a man be just with God? The question was not the expression of his sense of guilt. The conception which overwhelmed him was that of God, and ere the answer closes it will be seen that in the light of his innocence he could not understand his suffering.... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:30-31

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 clothes shall abhor me.’ Job 9:30-Obadiah : I. Is there nothing good in ‘the natural heart’?—Are there no features of the divine original left in the broken image?Far be it from me to say so. A man of the world may have very honourable feelings; and an unconverted character, often, is exceedingly amiable and very charitable. We all have known very correct... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 9:25-35

Job 9:25-Habakkuk : . 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 God. He complains first of the shortness of his life. His time runs swiftly as a runner, as the light papyrus boats used on the Nile, as an eagle in its flight ( Job 9:25 f.). If he should resolve to brighten up and treat his misery as a bad dream, what use? God will again put him on the rack. (We may associate Job’ s quieter... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 9:30

If I wash myself; either, 1. Really, by sanctification, cleansing my heart and life from all filthiness; or rather, 2. Declaratively or judicially, i.e. if I clear myself from all imputations, and fully prove my innocency before men. With snow water, i.e. as men cleanse their bodies, and as under the law they purified themselves, with water, which he here calls water of snow, either because by its purity and brightness it resembled snow; or because in those dry countries, where fresh and pure... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 9:31

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 understood really, as if God would make him filthy; but only judicially, that God would prove him to be a most guilty and filthy creature, notwithstanding all the professions and evidences of his purity before men. Mine own clothes shall abhor me, i.e. I shall be so altogether filthy, that my own clothes, if they had any sense in them, would abhor to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 9:32

He is not a man, as I am; but one infinitely superior to me in majesty, and power, and wisdom, and justice. That I should answer him; that I should presume to debate my cause with him, or answer his allegations against me. That we should come together, face to face, to plead upon equal terms before a superior and indifferent judge. read more

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Job 9:25-35

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 9:22-35

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 9:1-35

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Job 9:1-35

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 9:1-35

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Job 9:30-31

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 9:25-35

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 9:30

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 9:31

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 9:32

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