Job answers Bildad, granting the premise and finding it unbearable: 'how can man be just with God?' (9:2). He removes mountains, shakes the earth from its place, commands the sun, stretches out the heavens, and 'maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades.' He passes by and I see him not. If I wash myself with snow water, thou wilt plunge me in the ditch. The heart of Job's trouble is that his Judge is also the other party in the case: 'he is not a man, as I am… there is no umpire betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both' (9:32-33). A cry the incarnation answers.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary and John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament.

Context

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A. 1–13 Job: How Can a Man Be Just With God?
B. 14–24 Job: He Destroyeth the Perfect and the Wicked Alike
C. 25–35 Job: There Is No Umpire Betwixt Us

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Job 105 verses
- Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
- Job 10:3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
- Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
- Job 10:8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
- Job 10:15If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
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Job 94 verses
- Job 9:2“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
- Job 9:4God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
- Job 9:19If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?
- Job 9:32For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
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Job 43 verses
- Job 4:7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
- Job 4:17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
- Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
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Job 233 verses
- Job 23:7Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
- Job 23:8If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.
- Job 23:13But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
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Job 73 verses
- Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Job 7:13When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
- Job 7:19Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
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Job 332 verses
- Job 33:7Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.
- Job 33:13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
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Luke 212 verses
- Luke 21:11There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
- Luke 21:25There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
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Job 52 verses
- Job 5:8However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
- Job 5:9the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
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