Job 9:13
God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.
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ASV
God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.
KJV
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
If God will not withdraw his anger - That is, if he perseveres in inflicting punishment. He will not turn aside his displeasure by any opposition or resistance made to him. The proud helpers - Margin, Helpers of pride, or, strength. Jerome renders this, “under whom they who bear up the world bow down.” The Septuagint, not less singularly, “by him the whales (or monsters - κήτος ketos) which are under heaven, are bowed down.” Codurcus renders it, “aids of pride,” and understands by it all the things on which proud men rely, as wealth, health, rank, talent.
13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. Bildad began with a rebuke to Job for talking so much, ch. viii. Job makes no answer to that, though it would have been easy enough to retort it upon himself; but in what he next lays down as his principle, that God never perverts judgment, Job agrees with him: I know it is so of a truth,
Men of Israel, help, Acts xxi. If one enemy of God's kingdom fall under his judgment, the rest come proudly to help that, and think to deliver that out of his hand: but in vain; unless he pleases to withdraw his anger (which he often does, for it is the day of his patience) the proud helpers stoop under him, and fall with those whom they designed to help.
If God--rather, "God will not withdraw His anger," that is, so long as a mortal obstinately resists [UMBREIT]. the proud helpers--The arrogant, who would help one contending with the Almighty, are of no avail against Him.
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Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the…
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You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.
You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
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Job 26:12By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
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For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the…
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Isaiah 30:7Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
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Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
