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Job 9:19
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If it is a matter of strength, look, he is the powerful one!If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'
If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
When it comes to strength, God is stronger than I; when it comes to justice, no one can accuse him.
If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say, ‘Who will summon me?'
"If it is a matter of strength and power, behold, He is mighty! And if of justice, who can summon and challenge Him?
"If it is a matter of power, behold, He is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?
If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'
If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?
If it is a matter of power, behold, He is the mighty one!And if it is a matter of justice, who can make Him testify?
If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?
God is much stronger than I am, and who would call me into court to give me justice?
If it's a matter of force, look how mighty he is; if justice, who can summon him to court?
Be it a question of strength, lo, [he is] strong; and be it of judgment, who will set me a time?
If it is a matter of strength, lo, he is mighty; and if of judgment, who can summon him?
Should I try force? Try force on God? Should I take him to court? Could anyone make him go?
If it is a matter of strength, look, he is mighty. But if it is a matter of justice, who can summon me?
If I speak of strength, behold, He is mighty; and if of judgment, who can summon me?
Yf men will speake of strength, he is the stogest of all: yf me will speake of rightousnes, who darre be my recorde?
If we speak of strength, lo, he is mighty! And if of justice, Who, saith he, will summon me?
If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?
If it be a matter of strength, lo, He is mighty! and if of justice, who will appoint me a time?
If I speake of strength, loe, hee is strong: and if of iudgement, who shall set me a time to pleade?
If [men will speake] of strength, lo he is strong: if [men will speake] of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?
For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment?
If we speak of the strength of the mighty, lo, he is there! and if of judgment, who will appoint me a time?
If strengthe is souyt, `he is moost strong; if equyte of doom is souyt, no man dar yelde witnessynge for me.
If [we speak] of strength, look, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, Who, [he says], will summon me?
If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]?
If it is a matter of strength, indeed He is strong; And if of justice, who will appoint my day in court?
If it's a question of strength, he's the strong one. If it's a matter of justice, who dares to summon him to court?
If it is a question of power, see, He is the strong one! If it is a question of what is right and fair, who can call Him to a trial?
If it is a contest of strength, he is the strong one! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
If it regardeth vigour, bold is he! If justice, who could summon him?
If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me.
If it is a contest of strength, behold him! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
If of power, lo, the Strong One; And if of judgment -- who doth convene me?
"If it is a matter of power, behold, He is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
he is strong: Job 9:4, Job 36:17-19, Job 40:9, Job 40:10, Psalms 62:11, Matthew 6:13, 1 Corinthians 1:25, 1 Corinthians 10:22
who shall: Job 9:32, Job 9:33, Job 31:35, Job 33:5-7
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 29:12 - power Job 14:3 - bringest Job 22:4 - will he enter Job 23:6 - plead Job 35:14 - yet Job 36:5 - mighty Job 37:23 - excellent Psalms 13:2 - take Psalms 21:13 - Be thou Psalms 89:8 - a strong Isaiah 26:4 - in the Jeremiah 49:19 - appoint me the time Romans 9:19 - Why doth Revelation 18:8 - for
Cross-References
After Noah was 500 years old, he had sons named Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Bring every living animal out of the boat with you—all the birds, animals, and everything that crawls on the earth. These animals will make many more animals, and they will fill the earth again."
Every animal on earth, every bird in the air, every animal that crawls on the ground, and every fish in the sea will be afraid of you. All of them will be under your control.
But I give you one command. You must not eat meat that still has its life (blood) in it.
After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong,.... Or think of it, or betake myself to that, and propose to carry my point by mere force, as some men do by dint of power and authority they are possessed of; alas! there is nothing to be done this way; I am a poor, weak, feeble creature in body, mind, and estate; I am not able to contend with so powerful an antagonist on any account, in any way: God is strong, he is the "most strong" w, as some render it; he is mighty, is the Almighty; the weakness of God is stronger than men; there is no disputing with God upon the foot of strength:
and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]? If I think and propose to put things upon the foot of justice, to have the cause between us issued in that way, I cannot expect to succeed by right, any more than by might; he is so strictly just and holy, that no righteousness and holiness of, mine can stand before him; he is God, and I a man, and therefore not fit to come together in judgment; and he a pure and holy Being, just and true, and without iniquity, and I a sinful polluted creature; and besides, there is none superior to him, that I can appeal unto, none that can appoint a place, or fix a time, for the hearing of the cause between us, or that can preside in judgment and determine the matter in controversy; nay, there is not one among the creatures that can be a daysman, an arbiter or umpire; yea not one that can be so much as employed as council, that can take the cause in hand, and plead it, and be a patron for me, and defender of me; so that, let me take what course I will, I am sure to be nonsuited and worsted, see Jeremiah 49:19.
w אמיץ "robustissimus est", V. L.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong - There has been a considerable variety in the interpretation of this passage. The meaning seems to be this. It refers to a judicial contest, and Job is speaking of the effect if he and God were to come to a trial, and the cause were to be settled before judges. He is urging reasons why he would have no hope of success in such a case. He says, therefore, “If the matter pertained only to strength, or if it were to be determined by strength, lo, he is more mighty than I am, and I could have no hope of success in such a controversy: and if the controversy was one of judgment, that is, of justice or right, I have no one to manage my cause - no one that could cope with him in the pleadings - no one who could equal him in setting forth my arguments, or presenting my side of the case. It would, therefore, be wholly an unequal contest, where I could have no hope of success; and I am unwilling to engage in such a controversy or trial with God. My interest, my duty, and the necessity of the case, require me to submit the case without argument, and I will not attempt to plead with my Maker.” That there was a lack of right feeling in this, must be apparent to all.
There was evidently the secret belief that God had dealt with him severely; that he had gone beyond his deserts in indicting pain on him, and that he was under a necessity of submitting not so much to justice and right as to mere power and sovereignty. But who has not had something of this feeling when deeply afflicted? And yet who, when he has had it, has not felt that it was far from being what it should be? Our feeling should be, “we deserve all that we suffer, and more than we have yet endured. God is a sovereign; but He is right. Though he afflicts us much, and others little, yet it is not because he is unjust, but because he sees that there is some good reason why we should suffer. That reason may be seen yet by us, but if not, we should never doubt that it exists.”
Who shall set me a time to plead? - Noyes renders this, “Who shall summon me to trial?” Dr. Good, “Who should become a witness for me?” The sense is, “Who would summon witnesses for me? If it was a mere trial of strength, God is too mighty for me; if it were a question of justice, who would compel witnesses to come on my side? Who could make them willing to appear against God, and to bear testimony for me in a controversy with the Almighty?”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 9:19. If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong — Human wisdom, power, and influence avail nothing before him.
Who shall set me a time — מי יועידני mi yoideni, "Who would be a witness for me?" or, Who would dare to appear in my behalf? Almost all the terms in this part of the speech of Job, Job 9:11-24, are forensic or juridical, and are taken from legal processes and pleadings in their gates or courts of justice.
