Job 9
9
Job 9
Job Replies: There Is No Mediator
1Then Job answered:
2 #
Rom 3.20
“Indeed, I know that this is so,
but how can a mortal be just before God?
3 #
Ps 143.2
If one wished to contend with him,
one could not answer him once in a thousand.
4 #
2 Chr 13.12; Job 36.5 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength;
who has resisted him and succeeded?
5He removes mountains, and they do not know it
when he overturns them in his anger;
6 #
Job 26.11; Isa 2.19, 21; Hag 2.6; Heb 12.26 he shakes the earth out of its place,
and its pillars tremble;
7he commands the sun, and it does not rise;
he seals up the stars;
8 #
Gen 1.6; Ps 104.2, 3 he alone stretched out the heavens
and trampled the waves of the Sea;#9.8 Or trampled the back of the sea dragon
9 #
Gen 1.16; Job 38.31; Am 5.8 he made the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;
10 #
Ps 71.15
he does great things beyond understanding
and marvelous things without number.
11 #
Job 23.8, 9; 35.14 Look, he passes by me, and I do not see him;
he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
12 #
Job 11.10; Isa 45.9; Rom 9.20 He snatches away; who can stop him?
Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
13 #
Job 26.12; Isa 30.7 “God will not turn back his anger;
the helpers of Rahab bowed beneath him.
14How then can I answer him,
choosing my words with him?
15 #
Job 8.5; 10.15 Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him;
I must appeal to my accuser for my right.
16If I summoned him and he answered me,
I do not believe that he would listen to my voice.
17 #
Job 2.3; 16.12, 14 For he crushes me with a tempest
and multiplies my wounds without cause;
18 #
Job 27.2
he will not let me get my breath
but fills me with bitterness.
19If it is a contest of strength, he is the strong one!
If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?#9.19 Compare Gk: Heb me
20Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me;
though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
21 #
Job 1.1; 7.16 I am blameless; I do not know myself;
I loathe my life.
22 #
Eccl 9.2, 3; Ezek 21.3 It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23 #
Ps 64.4; Heb 11.36; 1 Pet 1.7 When disaster brings sudden death,
he mocks at the calamity#9.23 Meaning of Heb uncertain of the innocent.
24 #
Job 10.3; 12.6, 17 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
he covers the eyes of its judges—
if it is not he, who then is it?
25“My days are swifter than a runner;
they flee away; they see no good.
26 #
Hab 1.8
They go by like skiffs of reed,
like an eagle swooping on the prey.
27If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint;
I will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer,’
28I become afraid of all my suffering,
for I know you will not hold me innocent.
29 #
v 20
I shall be condemned;
why then do I labor in vain?
30 #
Jer 2.22
If I wash myself with soap
and cleanse my hands with lye,
31yet you will plunge me into filth,
and my own clothes will abhor me.
32 #
v 3
; Ps 143.2; Eccl 6.10; Rom 9.20For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him,
that we should come to trial together.
33 #
1 Sam 2.25
There is no mediator#9.33 Another reading is Would that there were a mediator between us,
who might lay his hand on us both.
34 #
Job 13.21; Ps 39.10 If he would take his rod away from me
and not let dread of him terrify me,
35then I would speak without fear of him,
for I know I am not what I am thought to be.#9.35 Cn: Heb for I am not so in myself
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Job 9
9
Job 9
Job Replies: There Is No Mediator
1Then Job answered:
2 #
Rom 3.20
“Indeed, I know that this is so,
but how can a mortal be just before God?
3 #
Ps 143.2
If one wished to contend with him,
one could not answer him once in a thousand.
4 #
2 Chr 13.12; Job 36.5 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength;
who has resisted him and succeeded?
5He removes mountains, and they do not know it
when he overturns them in his anger;
6 #
Job 26.11; Isa 2.19, 21; Hag 2.6; Heb 12.26 he shakes the earth out of its place,
and its pillars tremble;
7he commands the sun, and it does not rise;
he seals up the stars;
8 #
Gen 1.6; Ps 104.2, 3 he alone stretched out the heavens
and trampled the waves of the Sea;#9.8 Or trampled the back of the sea dragon
9 #
Gen 1.16; Job 38.31; Am 5.8 he made the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;
10 #
Ps 71.15
he does great things beyond understanding
and marvelous things without number.
11 #
Job 23.8, 9; 35.14 Look, he passes by me, and I do not see him;
he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
12 #
Job 11.10; Isa 45.9; Rom 9.20 He snatches away; who can stop him?
Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
13 #
Job 26.12; Isa 30.7 “God will not turn back his anger;
the helpers of Rahab bowed beneath him.
14How then can I answer him,
choosing my words with him?
15 #
Job 8.5; 10.15 Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him;
I must appeal to my accuser for my right.
16If I summoned him and he answered me,
I do not believe that he would listen to my voice.
17 #
Job 2.3; 16.12, 14 For he crushes me with a tempest
and multiplies my wounds without cause;
18 #
Job 27.2
he will not let me get my breath
but fills me with bitterness.
19If it is a contest of strength, he is the strong one!
If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?#9.19 Compare Gk: Heb me
20Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me;
though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
21 #
Job 1.1; 7.16 I am blameless; I do not know myself;
I loathe my life.
22 #
Eccl 9.2, 3; Ezek 21.3 It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23 #
Ps 64.4; Heb 11.36; 1 Pet 1.7 When disaster brings sudden death,
he mocks at the calamity#9.23 Meaning of Heb uncertain of the innocent.
24 #
Job 10.3; 12.6, 17 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
he covers the eyes of its judges—
if it is not he, who then is it?
25“My days are swifter than a runner;
they flee away; they see no good.
26 #
Hab 1.8
They go by like skiffs of reed,
like an eagle swooping on the prey.
27If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint;
I will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer,’
28I become afraid of all my suffering,
for I know you will not hold me innocent.
29 #
v 20
I shall be condemned;
why then do I labor in vain?
30 #
Jer 2.22
If I wash myself with soap
and cleanse my hands with lye,
31yet you will plunge me into filth,
and my own clothes will abhor me.
32 #
v 3
; Ps 143.2; Eccl 6.10; Rom 9.20For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him,
that we should come to trial together.
33 #
1 Sam 2.25
There is no mediator#9.33 Another reading is Would that there were a mediator between us,
who might lay his hand on us both.
34 #
Job 13.21; Ps 39.10 If he would take his rod away from me
and not let dread of him terrify me,
35then I would speak without fear of him,
for I know I am not what I am thought to be.#9.35 Cn: Heb for I am not so in myself
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