Chapter 9:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Esther Psalms
Job 9
9:2
I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be
a
just with God?
(
a) Job here answers Eliphaz and Bildad's
oration, touching the justice of God, and his innocency, confessing God to be
infinite in justice and man to be nothing in respect.
9:3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer
him one of a
b thousand.
(
b) Of a thousand things, which God could lay to
his charge, man cannot answer him one.
9:6 Which
c
shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
(
c) He declares the infirmity of man, by the
mighty and incomprehensible power that is in God, showing what he could do if
he would set forth his power.
9:9 Which
maketh
d Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades,
and the chambers of the south.
(
d) These are the names of certain stars by which
he means that all stars both known and unknown are at his appointment.
9:11 Lo, he goeth
e
by me, and I see [him] not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
(
e) I am not able to comprehend his works, which
are common and daily before my eyes, much less in those things, which are hid
and secret.
9:12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him?
f
who will say unto him, What doest thou?
(
f) He shows that when God executes his power, he
does it justly, as no one can control him.
9:13 [If] God
g
will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers
h
do stoop under him.
(
g) God will not be appeased for anything that
man can say for himself for his justification.
(
h) That is, all the reasons that men can lay to
approve their cause.
9:14 How much less shall I answer him, [and] choose
out
i my words [to reason] with him?
(
i) How should I be able to answer him by
eloquence? By which he notes his friends, who although they were eloquent in
talk, did not believe in their hearts, that which they spoke.
9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I
k
not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge.
(
k) Meaning, in his own opinion, signifying that
man will sometimes flatter himself to be righteous which before God is an
abomination.
9:16 If I
l
had called, and he had answered me; [yet] would I not believe that he had
hearkened unto my voice.
(
l) While I am in pain I cannot break forth into
many inconveniences although I still know that God is just.
9:17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and
multiplieth my wounds
m without cause.
(
m) I am not able to feel my sins so great, as I
feel the weight of his plagues; and this he speaks to condemn his dullness and
to justify God.
9:19 If [I speak] of
strength, lo, [he is]
n strong: and if
of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]?
(
n) After he has accused his own weakness, he
continues to justify God and his power.
9:20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall
condemn me:
o [if I say], I [am]
perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
(
o) If I stood in my own defence yet God would
have just cause to condemn me if he examined my heart and conscience.
9:22 This [is] one [thing],
therefore I said [it], He destroyeth the
p
perfect and the wicked.
(
p) If God punishes according to his justice, he
will destroy them who are counted perfect as well as them that are wicked.
9:23 If the scourge
q
slay suddenly, he will
r laugh at the
trial of the innocent.
(
q) That is, the wicked.
(
r) This is spoken according to our apprehension,
as though he would say, If God destroyed only the wicked, (
Job
5:3), why would he allow the innocent to be so long tormented by them?
9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the
wicked:
s he covereth the faces of the
judges thereof; if not, where, [and] who
t
[is] he?
(
s) That they cannot see to do justice.
(
t) That can show the contrary?
9:27 If
u I say, I will forget my complaint, I
will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:
(
u) I think not to fall into these afflictions,
but my sorrows bring me to these manifold infirmities, and my conscience
condemns me.
9:29 [If] I be wicked, why
then
x labour I in vain?
(
x) Why does God not destroy me at once? thus he
speaks according to the infirmity of the flesh.
9:30 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.
9:31 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 disclose me even more.
9:33 Neither is there any
daysman betwixt us,
a [that] might lay
his hand upon us both.
(
a) Who might make an accord between God and me,
speaking of impatience, and yet confessing God to be just in punishing him.
9:35 [Then] would I speak,
and not fear him;
b but [it is] not so
with me.
(
b) Signifying that God's judgments keep him in
awe.
Chapter 9:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Esther Psalms
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