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Job
Chapter
09
{Chapters
4-14: The First Debate}
{Chapters
8-10: Debate with Bildad -
Job's Response in Chapters 9-10}
{No
Believer can Argue the Facts with God -
He Already Has all the Facts}
{Verses
1-13: One Can Not Fight God}
1~~Then
Job replied and said, 2~~
"Indeed,
I know {yada`} that this is true {'omnam},
but
how can a man
be
righteous {tsadaq}
before
God/'El?
3~~Though
one wished to contend with Him,
he
could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
4~~{God
is} Wise {chakam} in mentality/heart/'right lobe',
and
mighty {'ammiyts} in strength { koach}.
Who
has resisted/hardened Him
and
came out unscathed?
5~~He
moves mountains,
without
their knowing it
and
overturns them in His anger.
6~~He
shakes the earth from her place,
and
makes the pillars tremble.
7~~He
commands the sun, and it does not shine
and
'seal up'/'seals up the light of' the stars.
8~~He
alone streatches out the heavens,
and
treads upon the waves of the sea.
9~~He
is the maker
of
the Bear/Arcturus {`Ayish - Great Bear Constellation},
and
the Lion/Orion {K@ciyl},
and
Pleiades {Kiymah - a seven star constellation},
and
the constellations of the south.
10~~He
performs wonders that can not be fathomed,
miracles
that can not be numbered.
11~~When
He passes me, I can not see Him.
When
He goes by, I can not perceive Him.
12~~If He snatches away . . . who can stop Him?
Who can say to Him, What are you doing?
13~~God/'Elowahh
does not restrain His anger,
even
the cohorts of Rahab {`azar rahab - a famous Egyptian army}
cower
at His Feet.
14~~How can I {Job} dispute with Him?
How
can I find words {dabar}
to
argue with Him?
15~~Though
I am innocent/righteous,
I
can not answer Him,
I
can only plead with my Judge for mercy.
16~~Even
if I summoned Him and He respond,
I
do not believe that He is going to give me a hearing.
17-18``Though
He keeps on breaking me
with
a storm/tempest,
and
multiplies my wounds without reason/cause, 18``
He
will not grant/give me
to
take my breath/spirit {ruwach},
but
causes me to be filled/satiated with bitterness.
19``If {I speak of} . . . strength, he is strong.
And
if of judgment,
who
shall schedule/set me a time {to plead}?
20``If
I 'claim righteousness'/justify myself,
my
own mouth shall condemn me.
If
I say, I am perfect,
it
shall also prove me perverse/crooked.
21~~Although
I {Job} am blameless,
I
have no concern for myself/'my own soul' {nephesh}
I
despise my own life {chay}.
22~~It
is all the same.
That
is why I say,
'He
destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'
23~~When
a scourge brings sudden death,
He
mocks the despair of the innocent.
24~~A
land falls into the hands of the wicked.
He
blindfolds the judges thereof.
If it is not He, then who is it?
{Note: Job is still failing at this point. He is wrong when he says the first part. So, Job now takes a pause between verses 24 and 25 and starts to realize that there is need in his life to come up to snuff with this suffering in his life because he knows it is undeserved suffering.}
25~~My days are swifter than a runner.
They
fly away without a glimpse
{meaning without a glimpse of happiness now - self-pity}.
26~~They
{his days} pass by as 'ships of papyrus'/'fast ships' . . .
as
the eagle that darts to the prey.
27-28``Though
I say, I will forget my complaint and
though
I forsake my face, and smile, 28``
I
fear {because} . . . of my wounds/sorrows.
I know that you will not find me innocent.
29``If I be wicked, why do I then labor in futility?
30-31``If
I wash myself with snow water,
and
make my hands never so clean, 31``
yet
you will plunge me in the ditch,
and
my own clothes shall abhor me.
{Job
Recognizes that God is Not a Man}
32~~For
He {God} is not a man, like me,
that
I might answer Him,
that
we might confront each other in court.
33~~If
there was only someone to umpire/'mediate between us' . . .
someone
who can lay his hand on both of us.
{Note: If you are going to have a face to face trial, you need a mediator. God is perfect. Man is perfect. The mediator must be equal with God AND equal with mankind. So, mankind needs a perfect man to be the mediator. Jesus Christ as the only perfect man, is the mediator making intercession for us daily before the Father.}
34~~Someone
to remove His rod from me,
so
that His terror would frighten me no more.
35~~Then
I would speak up without fear of Him,
but
as it now stands, I can not.
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