[Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me. 35. If God would meet Job as a man, removing His afflicting rod and laying aside His awful majesty, Job would speak out his innocence and plead his own cause without fear. but it is not so with me ] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:35”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:34
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: 34. The subject is God, not the daysman let God remove His rod, His afflictions. his fear terrify me ] Or, his terror affright me. The “terror” of God is His overawing majesty, cf. ch. Job 13:21, Job 33:7, the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:34”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:33
Neither is there any daysman between us, [that] might lay his hand upon us both. 33. any daysman ] i. e. any umpire, or, arbiter. The word possibly comes from the Lat. diem dicere, to fix a day for hearing a cause. For what art thou That mak’st thyself his dayes-man to prolong The vengeance … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:33”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:32
For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment. 32 34. The preceding verses described how unavailing all Job’s efforts were to make out his innocence in the face of the fixed resolution of God to hold him guilty. Now Job comes back … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:32”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:31
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. 31. An expressive figure for, to cover again with uncleanness. The naked body ( Job 9:30) is supposed plunged in the ditch, and the clothes refuse to cover so foul an object. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:31”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:30
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 30. with snow water ] This is according to one reading ( bem). According to another ( bem), with snow. The latter is better; snowwater is turbid and foul, ch. Job 6:16; snow is the symbol of the most perfect purity, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:30”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:29
[If] I be wicked, why then labor I in vain? 29. if I be wicked ] Rather, I shall be guilty, that is, I have to be, shall be held, guilty; God has resolved so to consider me. Everywhere in these verses guilt and afflictions mean the same thing, the one being the sign of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:29”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:28
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. 28. As Job’s afflictions were the proof of his guilt in the estimation of God, “to hold him innocent” means to remove his afflictions, as the first clause suggests. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges I am … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:28”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:27
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]: 27. my complaint ] i. e. as always, my complaining, ch. Job 7:13. my heaviness ] lit. my faces, my sad mien, 1Sa 1:18. comfort myself ] lit. brighten up, ch. Job 10:20; Psa 39:13. The word in … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:27”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:26
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey. 26. the swift ships ] the ships of reed. These skiffs, constructed of a wooden keel and the rest of reeds, are the “vessels of bulrushes” of Isa 18:2. They carried but one or two persons, and being light … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:26”