Job 9
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 9, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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Then Job answered and said,
Job 9:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before God?}
Job 9:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Job 9:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{He is} wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened {himself} against him, and hath prospered?
Job 9:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
Job 9:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Job 9:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
Job 9:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. {waves: Heb. heights}
Job 9:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. {Arcturus...: Heb. Ash, Cesil, and Cimah}
Job 9:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
Job 9:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Lo, he goeth by me, and I see {him} not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
Job 9:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? {hinder...: Heb. turn him away?}
Job 9:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{If} God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. {proud...: Heb. helpers of pride, or, strength}
Job 9:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How much less shall I answer him, {and} choose out my words {to reason} with him?
Job 9:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Whom, though I were righteous, {yet} would I not answer, {but} I would make supplication to my judge.
Job 9:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I had called, and he had answered me; {yet} would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
Job 9:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Job 9:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Job 9:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If {I speak} of strength, lo, {he is} strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time {to plead}?
Job 9:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Job 9:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Though} I {were} perfect, {yet} would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Job 9:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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This {is} one {thing}, therefore I said {it}, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Job 9:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Job 9:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, {and} who {is} he?
Job 9:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job 9:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle {that} hasteth to the prey. {swift...: or, ships of Ebeh: Heb. ships of desire}
Job 9:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort {myself}:
Job 9:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Job 9:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{If} I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Job 9:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Job 9:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. {abhor...: or, make me to be abhorred}
Job 9:31 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For {he is} not a man, as I {am, that} I should answer him, {and} we should come together in judgment.
Job 9:32 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, {that} might lay his hand upon us both. {any...: Heb. one that should argue} {daysman: or, umpire}
Job 9:33 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Job 9:34 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Then} would I speak, and not fear him; but {it is} not so with me. {it is...: Heb. I am not so with myself}
Job 9:35 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.