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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Job 9

Chapter 9

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

how

4:17 14:3,4 25:4 32:2 33:9 34:5 1 Kings 8:46 Psalms 130:3 143:2 Romans 3:20

with

or, before.

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

he will contend

20,32,33 10:2 23:3-7 31:35-37 33:13 34:14,15 40:2 Isaiah 57:15,16 Romans 9:20

he cannot

Psalms 19:12 40:12 1 John 1:8 3:20

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

wise in heart

19 36:5 Psalms 104:24 136:5 Daniel 2:20 4:34-37 Romans 11:33 Ephesians 1:8,19 Ephesians 3:10,20 Jude 1:24,25

who hath hardened

6:10 15:23-27 40:9 Exodus 9:14-17 14:17,18 Proverbs 28:14 29:1 Daniel 5:20-30 1 Corinthians 10:22

Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.

removeth

28:9 Psalms 46:2 68:8 114:6 Isaiah 40:12 Habakkuk 3:6,10 Zechariah 4:7 Matthew 21:21 1 Corinthians 13:2 Revelation 6:14 11:13

which overturneth

Numbers 1:5,6 Zechariah 14:4,5 Matthew 27:51 Luke 21:11 Revelation 16:18-20

Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

shaketh

Isaiah 2:19,21 13:13,14 24:1,19,20 Haggai 2:6,21 Hebrews 12:26 Revelation 20:11

the pillars

26:11 38:4-7 1 Samuel 2:8 Psalms 75:3 114:7 Jeremiah 4:24 Joel 2:10

Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

commandeth

Exodus 10:21,22 Joshua 10:12 Daniel 4:35 Amos 4:13 8:9 Matthew 24:29

sealeth

37:7 38:12-15,19,20 Isaiah 13:10 Ezekiel 32:7 Luke 21:25,26

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

Which

37:18 Genesis 1:6,7 Psalms 33:6 104:2,3 Isaiah 40:22 42:5 44:24 Jeremiah 10:11 Zechariah 12:1

treadeth

38:11 Psalms 93:3,4 Matthew 14:25-30 John 6:19

waves

Heb. heights.

Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

maketh

38:31,32-41 Genesis 1:16 Psalms 147:4 Amos 5:8

Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades

Heb. Ash, Cesil, and Cimah. the chambers.

Psalms 104:3,13 Acts 28:13

Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.

great things

5:9 26:12-14 37:23 Psalms 71:15 72:18 Ecclesiastes 3:11 Isaiah 40:26-28 Romans 11:33 Ephesians 3:20

wonders

Exodus 15:11 Psalms 136:4 Daniel 4:2,3

Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

he goeth

23:8,9 35:14 Psalms 77:19 1 Timothy 6:16

Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

he taketh

23:13 34:29 Daniel 4:35 Ephesians 1:11

hinder him

Heb. turn him away.

11:10

What

33:13 Isaiah 45:9 Jeremiah 18:6 Matthew 11:26 20:15 Romans 9:18-20 11:34

If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

the proud helpers

Heb. the helpers of pride, or strength.

26:12 40:9-11 Isaiah 30:7 31:2,3 James 4:6,7

How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

How much

4:19 25:6 1 Kings 8:27

shall I

11:4,5

choose

23:4,7 33:5

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

though

10:15 1 Corinthians 4:4

I would

5:8 8:5 10:2 22:27 34:31,32 1 Kings 8:38,39 2 Chronicles 33:13 Jeremiah 31:9 Daniel 9:3,18

my judge

23:7 1 Peter 2:23

If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

If I had

Psalms 18:6 66:18-20 116:1,2

would I

29:24 Exodus 6:9 Judges 6:13 Psalms 126:1 Luke 24:41 Acts 12:14-16

For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

For he

16:14 Psalms 29:5 42:7 83:15 Isaiah 28:17 Jeremiah 23:19 Ezekiel 13:13 Matthew 7:27 12:20

multiplieth

1:14-19 2:7,13

without cause

2:3 16:17 34:6 Psalms 25:3 John 9:3 15:25

He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

will not

7:19 Psalms 39:13 88:7,15-18 Lamentations 3:3,18

filleth me

3:20 Lamentations 3:15,19 Hebrews 12:11

If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

he is strong

4 36:17-19 40:9,10 Psalms 62:11 Matthew 6:13 1 Corinthians 1:25 10:22

who shall

32,33 31:35 33:5-7

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

justify

2 4:17 32:1,2 Psalms 130:3 143:2 Luke 10:29 16:15

mine

15:5,6 34:35 35:16 Proverbs 10:19 Isaiah 6:5 Matthew 12:36,37 James 3:2

I am perfect

1:1 Philippians 3:12-15

it shall

33:8-13 Proverbs 17:20 1 Timothy 6:5

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

yet would

Psalms 139:23,24 Proverbs 28:26 Jeremiah 17:9,10 1 Corinthians 4:4 1 John 3:20

I would

7:15,16,21

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

He destroyeth

Ecclesiastes 9:1-3 Ezekiel 21:3,4 Luke 13:2-4

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

If the

1:13-19 2:7

he will

4:7 8:20 2 Samuel 14:15,17 Psalms 44:22 Ezekiel 14:19-21 21:13 Hebrews 11:36,37

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?

earth

12:6-10 21:7-15 Psalms 17:14 73:3-7 Jeremiah 12:1,2 Daniel 4:17 5:18-21 Daniel 7:7-28 Habakkuk 1:14-17

he covereth

2 Samuel 15:30 19:4 Esther 6:12 7:8 Jeremiah 14:4

if not

24:25 32:2

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

swifter

7:6,7 Esther 8:14

a post

Rotz, a runner, or courier; some of whom are said to go 150 miles in less than 24 hours.

they flee away

Psalms 39:5,11 89:47 90:9,10 James 4:14

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

swift ships

Heb. ships of desire, or, ships of Ebeh. as the eagle.

39:27-30 2 Samuel 1:23 Proverbs 23:5 Jeremiah 4:13 Lamentations 4:19 Habakkuk 1:8

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

7:13 Psalms 77:2,3 Jeremiah 8:18

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

afraid

21:6 Psalms 88:15,16 119:120

I know

2,20,21 14:16 Exodus 20:7 Psalms 130:3

If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

22 10:7,14-17 21:16,17,27 22:5-30 Psalms 73:13 Jeremiah 2:35

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Psalms 26:6 Proverbs 28:13 Isaiah 1:16-18 Jeremiah 2:22 4:14 Romans 10:3 1 John 1:8

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

shalt

20 15:6

mine

Isaiah 59:6 64:6 Philippians 3:8,9

abhor me

or, make me to be abhorred.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

not a man

33:12 35:5-7 Numbers 23:19 1 Samuel 16:7 Ecclesiastes 6:10 Isaiah 45:9 Jeremiah 49:19 Romans 9:20 1 John 3:20

we should

13:18-23 23:3-7 Psalms 143:2

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

is there

19 1 Samuel 2:25 Psalms 106:23 1 John 2:1,2

daysman

Heb. one that should argue, or, umpire. that might.

1 Kings 3:16-28

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

let not

13:11,20-22 23:15 31:23 33:7 37:1 Psalms 39:10 90:11

but it is not so with me

Heb. but I am not so with myself.

29:2-25

Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.