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
Concise Complete
Job acknowledges God's justice. (1-13) He is not able to
contend with God. (14-21) Men not to be judged by outward condition. (22-24) Job
complains of troubles. (25-35)
Verses 1-13 In this
answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied
himself to be a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before him he
pleaded guilty of sins more than could be counted; and if God should contend
with him in judgment, he could not justify one out of a thousand, of all the
thoughts, words, and actions of his life; therefore he deserved worse than all
his present sufferings. When Job mentions the wisdom and power of God, he
forgets his complaints. We are unfit to judge of God's proceedings, because we
know not what he does, or what he designs. God acts with power which no creature
can resist. Those who think they have strength enough to help others, will not
be able to help themselves against it.
Verses 14-21 Job is
still righteous in his own eyes, ch. 32:1, and this answer, though it sets forth
the power and majesty of God, implies that the question between the afflicted
and the Lord of providence, is a question of might, and not of right; and we
begin to discover the evil fruits of pride and of a self-righteous spirit. Job
begins to manifest a disposition to condemn God, that he may justify himself,
for which he is afterwards reproved. Still Job knew so much of himself, that he
durst not stand a trial. If we say, We have no sin, we not only deceive
ourselves, but we affront God; for we sin in saying so, and give the lie to the
Scripture. But Job reflected on God's goodness and justice in saying his
affliction was without cause.
Verses 22-24 Job
touches briefly upon the main point now in dispute. His friends maintained that
those who are righteous and good, always prosper in this world, and that none
but the wicked are in misery and distress: he said, on the contrary, that it is
a common thing for the wicked to prosper, and the righteous to be greatly
afflicted. Yet there is too much passion in what Job here says, for God doth not
afflict willingly. When the spirit is heated with dispute or with discontent, we
have need to set a watch before our lips.
Verses 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, a Daysman, or Umpire, for us, even God's own beloved Son, who has
purchased peace for us with the blood of his cross, who is able to save to the
uttermost all who come unto God through him. If we trust in his name, our sins
will be buried in the depths of the sea, we shall be washed from all our
filthiness, and made whiter than snow, so that none can lay any thing to our
charge. We shall be clothed with the robes of righteousness and salvation,
adorned with the graces of the Holy Spirit, and presented faultless before the
presence of his glory with exceeding joy. May we learn the difference between
justifying ourselves, and being thus justified by God himself. Let the
tempest-tossed soul consider Job, and notice that others have passed this
dreadful gulf; and though they found it hard to believe that God would hear or
deliver them, yet he rebuked the storm, and brought them to the desired haven.
Resist the devil; give not place to hard thoughts of God, or desperate
conclusions about thyself. Come to Him who invites the weary and heavy laden;
who promises in nowise to cast them out.
Chapter 9:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
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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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