Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
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Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
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Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
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Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His terror make me afraid;
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Passages linked to Job 9:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 39:10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
- Job 13:11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall on you?
- Job 33:7 Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, neither will my pressure be heavy on you.
- Job 13:20-22 “Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face: withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid. Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.
- Job 23:15 Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
- Job 29:2-25 “Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent, when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me, when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me, when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street. The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood. The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me: Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him, the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know. I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth. Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand. My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch. My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’ “Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel. After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them. They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain. I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face. I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
- Job 31:23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.
- Job 37:1 “Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
- Psalms 90:11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 9:34 Let him take his rod away from…
Job 9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Ver. 34. Let him take his rod away from me] Having sufficiently set forth that he will not once offer to contend with God, he here humbly begs of God no further to contend with him, but to grant a truce, at least during the treaty; and either to take away or (however) to mitigate his sorrows and sores. See the like Job 13:20-21.
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And let not his fear terrify me] i.e. His formidableness, {see Job 7:14} let it not scare me, or put me, as it were, beside my wits, Psa 88:15, Ne me transversum agat (Sept.).
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain His fear; objectively so called, i.e. the fear and…
His fear; objectively so called, i.e. the fear and dread of him, of his majesty and justice. Let him not deal with me rigorously, according to his sovereign dominion and perfect justice, but according to his wonted grace and clemency.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then would I speak, and not fear him,.... With…
Then would I speak, and not fear him,.... With a servile fear, though with reverence and godly fear; meaning either at the throne of grace, having liberty of access, boldness of spirit, and freedom of speech through Christ the Mediator, and in the view of his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice; for when the rod of his law and the terror of his justice are removed, and his grace and favour in Christ shown, a believer can speak boldly and freely to God, and not be afraid before him: but rather Job's sense is, that were the rod of his anger taken off and the dread of his majesty, which so awed him that he could not tell his case as it was, and use the arguments he might to advantage; he should speak without fear, and so as to defend himself, and make his cause to appear to be just; to this the Lord seems to refer in Job 38:3; being bold and daring expressions, which Job blushed when made sensible of it, Job 42:5,
but it is not so with me; there was no daysman between the Lord and him; the rod was not taken off his back, nor the dread and terror of the Almighty removed from him; and so could not speak in his own defence, as otherwise he might: or it was not so with him as his friends thought of him; he was not the wicked hypocritical man they took him to be, or as the afflictive dispensations of God made him to appear to be, according to their judgment of them: or the words may be rendered, "I am not so with myself" (u); that is, he was not conscious to himself that he was such a person they judged him; or such were the troubles and afflictions that were upon him, that he was not himself, he was not "compos mentis", and so not capable on that account, as well as others, of pleading his own cause: or "I am not right in" or "with myself" (w); not in his right mind, being distracted with the terrors of God, and the arrows of the Almighty that stuck in him; or he was not righteous in himself; for though he was clear of hypocrisy he was charged with, he did not pretend to be without sin, or to have such a righteousness as would justify him before God; and therefore desires things might be put upon the foot of grace, and not of strict justice.
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(u) "non sic ego apud me", Pagninus, Montanus, Beza, Vatablus, Mercerus, Schmidt, Schultens. (w) "Quia non probus ego apud me", Bolducius; "quod non sim rectus apud me", Cocceius.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Fear - The fear and dread of his majesty…
Fear - The fear and dread of his majesty and justice. Let him not deal with me according to his perfect justice, but according to his grace and clemency.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 34. Let him take his rod away] In…
Verse 34. Let him take his rod away] In the Masoretic Bibles, the word שבטו shibto, his rod, is written with a large ט teth, as above; and as the letter in numerals stands for 9, the Masora says the word was thus written to show the nine calamities under which Job had suffered, and which he wished God to remove.
As שבט shebet signifies, not only rod, but also sceptre or the ensign of royalty, Job might here refer to God sitting in his majesty upon the judgment-seat; and this sight so appalled him, that, filled with terror, he was unable to speak. When a sinful soul sees God in his majesty, terror seizes upon it, and prayer is impossible. We have a beautiful illustration of this, Isa 6:1-5: "I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Then said I, Wo is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts."
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 9:34-35. Let not his fear terrify me —…
Job 9:34-35. Let not his fear terrify me — The fear and dread of his majesty and justice. Let him not deal with me according to his perfect justice, but according to his grace and clemency. Then would I speak, and not fear — I would speak freely for myself, being freed from that dread, which takes away my spirit and courage. But it is not so with me — I am not free from his terror, and therefore cannot plead my cause with him.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Let him take his rod away from me -…
Let him take his rod away from me - Let him suspend my sufferings, and let us come together on equal terms. His terror now is upon me, and I can do nothing. I am oppressed, and broken down, and crushed under his hand, and I could not hope to maintain my cause with any degree of success. If my sufferings were lightened, and I could approach the question with the rigor of health and the power of reasoning unweakened by calamity, I could then do justice to the views which I entertain. Now there would be obvious disparity, while one of the parties has crushed and enervated the other by the mere exercise of power.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain rod--not here the symbol of punishment, but of power.…
rod--not here the symbol of punishment, but of power. Job cannot meet God on fair terms so long as God deals with him on the footing of His almighty power.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 34. The subject is God, not the daysman—let God…
34. The subject is God, not the daysman—let God remove His rod, His afflictions.
his fear terrify me] Or, his terror affright me. The “terror” of God is His overawing majesty, cf. ch. Job_13:21, Job_33:7, the last passage with direct reference to the present one.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Let him take his rod away from me; rather,…
Let him take his rod away from me; rather, who would remove his rod from me. Job means that it would be a part of the duty of the "daysman" to see that God"s rod was removed from him before he was called upon to plead, so that he might not labour under so erect a disadvantage as his sufferings would place him under. And let not his fear terrify me; or, and would not suffer his fear to terrify me; i.e. would not allow Job to be placed under the disadvantage, either of pain or of fear, either of actual or prospective suffering.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
These verses continue the previous argument that no one is greater than God who could act as a judge between God and Job.
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take God's rod off me
Here "God's rod" is a metonym for God punishing or correcting Job. AT: "stop God from punishing me" (See: Metonymy)
keep his terror from frightening me
The abstract noun "terror" can be translated as the verb "terrify." AT: "keep him from terrifying and frightening me" (See: Abstract Nouns)
Then would I speak up
"Then I would speak"
as things are now
"because this is how things are now"
translationWords
judge, judges
God
rod
terror
fear
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