Jób 9:13

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Ha az Isten el nem fordítja az õ haragját, alatta meghajolnak Ráháb czinkosai is.

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  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the proud helpers: Heb. the helpers of pride, or strength, Job 26:12, Job 40:9-11, Isaiah 30:7, Isaiah 31:2, Isaiah 31:3, James 4:6, James 4:7

Reciprocal: Judges 20:25 - destroyed 2 Samuel 8:5 - came 2 Chronicles 25:8 - God hath power Job 11:10 - If he cut off Job 12:14 - he breaketh Job 23:13 - who can Job 36:19 - nor all Psalms 107:12 - and there Psalms 108:12 - for vain Isaiah 14:6 - and none Jeremiah 47:4 - every Jeremiah 48:30 - his lies shall not so effect it Ezekiel 30:6 - They also Daniel 4:35 - none

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[If] God will not withdraw his anger,.... Or "God will not withdraw his anger" m; he is angry, or at least seems to be angry with his own people, in their apprehension, when he afflicts them and hides his face from them, or does not immediately appear to their relief and assistance; but this does not always last, he does not retain or keep anger for ever; but shows great mercies to them, and with everlasting kindness has mercy on them, by discovering his love to them, applying his pardoning grace and mercy, and comforting them with the consolations of his spirit; but then he is angry with the wicked every day, for their continual transgressions; and he never withdraws his anger from them, neither here nor hereafter, but punishes them with everlasting destruction, and casts them into everlasting fire, to which his wrath and anger are compared: the consequence of which is,

the proud helpers do stoop under him; or "the helpers of pride" n, or helpers of proud men; proud, wicked, and ungodly men, who combine together and help one another against God, his people, cause and interest; men of power, rule and government, as Aben Ezra explains it; civil magistrates, men in authority, who, instead of being terrors to evil doers, encourage them, and help them forward in their wickedness; but though both those that help, and those that are helped, may continue for a while, and be supported, yet they shall sooner or later fall under the mighty hand of God, his power and wrath, and be crushed by it. Some regard may be had either to the giants, the men of the old world, who filled the earth with violence, and were swept away with the flood, Genesis 6:13; or rather to the builders of Babel, who helped one another to build a tower to make them a name, and secure themselves, and in opposition to God; but he being angry with them, made them desist, and they bowed under him, Genesis 11:4. Some render it, "the helpers of Rahab"; that is, of Egypt o, Rahab being a name of Egypt,

Psalms 87:4. The devils are meant, whose sin was pride, and by which they fell, and which they have endeavoured to promote and cherish among men; but these proud spirits are cast out of heaven and into hell, where they are reserved in chains of darkness to the great judgment, Judges 1:6; and are obliged, whether they will or not, to stoop to the Lord, and even to the son of God in human nature, which their proud stomachs cannot well bear; but are forced to it, the anger of God lying upon them, and his wrath, which will never be withdrawn from them.

m אלוה לא ישיב אפו "Deus non revocabit furorem suum", Pagninus, Beza. n עזרי רהב "adjutores superbiae", Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius, Junius & Tremellius, Schmidt, Michaelis. o So Jarchi.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If God will not withdraw his anger - That is, if he perseveres in inflicting punishment. He will not turn aside his displeasure by any opposition or resistance made to him.

The proud helpers - Margin, Helpers of pride, or, strength. Jerome renders this, “under whom they who bear up the world bow down.” The Septuagint, not less singularly, “by him the whales (or monsters - κήτος ketos) which are under heaven, are bowed down.” Codurcus renders it, “aids of pride,” and understands by it all the things on which proud men rely, as wealth, health, rank, talent. So Dr. Good renders it, “the supports of the proud.” The meaning is, probably, that all those things which contribute to the support of pride, or all those persons who are allied together to maintain the dominion of pride on the earth, must sink under the wrath of God. Or it may refer to those who sustain the pride of state and empire - the men who stand around the thrones of monarchs, and who contribute, by their talent and power, to uphold the pomp and magnificence of courts. On the meaning of the word here rendered pride (רהב rahab), see the notes at Isaiah 30:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 9:13. If God will not withdraw his anger — It is of no use to contend with God; he cannot be successfully resisted; all his opposers must perish.