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.
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.
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
shall I
choose
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
though
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
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
If I had
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
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
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
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
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
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
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
swifter
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
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
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
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.
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.
Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.