Job 9:34 (BSB)
Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.
Commentary on Job 9:34
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 9:25-35: Job here grows more and more querulous, and does not conclude this chapter with such reverent expressions of God's wisdom and justice as he began with. Those that indulge a complaining humour know not to what indecencies, nay, to what impieties, it will hurry them. The beginning of that strife with God is as the letting forth of water; therefore leave it off before it be meddled with.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 9:34: 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...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 9:34: 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.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Job 9:34-35: Job 9:34-35 34 Let Him take away His rod from me, And let His terrors not stupify me. 35 Then I would speak and not fear Him, For not thus do I stand with myself. The two Optatives, Job 9:34., as is frequently the case with the Imper., are followed by the Cohortative as the conclusion (אדבּרה, therefore will I speak; whereas ואדברה might be...