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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Ayub 9:16
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Bila aku berseru, Ia menjawab; aku tidak dapat percaya, bahwa Ia sudi mendengarkan suaraku;
Jikalau kiranya aku berseru dan disahut-Nya akan daku, niscaya tiada aku percaya, bahwa sudah didengar-Nya akan suaraku.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
If I had: Psalms 18:6, Psalms 66:18-20, Psalms 116:1, Psalms 116:2
would I: Job 29:24, Exodus 6:9, Judges 6:13, Psalms 126:1, Luke 24:41, Acts 12:14-16
Reciprocal: Genesis 45:26 - he believed Job 15:22 - He believeth not Job 39:24 - neither Song of Solomon 2:14 - that art Mark 16:11 - believed Luke 24:11 - idle John 20:25 - Except Acts 12:15 - Thou
Cross-References
Euery thyng that moueth it selfe, and that liueth, shall be meate for you, euen as the greene hearbe haue I geue you all thinges.
But flesh in the life therof [which is] the blood therof, shall ye not eate.
God spake also vnto Noah, & to his sonnes with hym, saying:
Beholde, I, euen I establishe my couenaunt with you, and with your seede after you:
And with euery liuing creature that is with you, in foule, in cattell, in euery beast of the earth whiche is with you, of all that go out of the arke, whatsoeuer liuing thyng of the earth it be.
And my couenaunt I make with you, that from hencefoorth euery fleshe be not rooted out with the waters of a fludde, neither shall there be a fludde to destroy the earth any more.
And he drynkyng of the wyne, was dronken, and vncouered within his tent.
And Ham the father of Chanaan, seeyng the nakednesse of his father, tolde his two brethren without.
Moreouer I wyll make my couenaunt betweene me and thee, & thy seede after thee, in their generations, by an euerlasting couenaut, yt I may be God vnto thee, and to thy seede after thee.
He that is borne in thy house, and he also that is bought with money, must needes be circumcised: & my couenaut shalbe in your fleshe for an euerlastyng couenaunt.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If I had called, and he had answered me,.... Mr. Broughton reads the words, "if I cry, will he answer me?" as if Job had some doubt upon his mind whether God would vouchsafe to answer him, though he should make his supplication to him, as he proposed; seeing he had so sorely afflicted him, and still continued his hand upon him; or the words may be rendered, "though I have called, and he has answered" q, in times past. Job was a praying person, he had often prayed to God in his closet, and in his family, for himself, and for his children, and for his friends, and he had found God to be a God hearing and answering prayer, but seems to question whether he would answer him now, if he did pray to him:
[yet] would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice, or "would hearken" r, at this time, and under the present circumstances; or should he, the mercy would be so great, that he could hardly believe it; so sometimes through joy men cannot believe what they hear and see, as the apostles, when Christ appeared to them after his resurrection; or as it was with the Jews returned from Babylon, they were like them that dream, they could scarcely tell whether their deliverance was a real fact, or whether they only dreamed of it, see Luke 24:41; so Job intimates, that should he pray to God, and be heard and delivered, it would be so astonishing and transporting, that at first he should not be able to give credit to it; or, however, he should not believe that it was for his prayers and supplications, for any worth and value, virtue and efficacy, there was in them, that he was heard; but it must be purely for his mercy's sake, for the sake of the mediation of Christ, and because these prayers were the breathings of his own spirit: or else the sense is, that though he had heard and answered him formerly, when he prayed in a supplicating way, yet if he should contend with him in a judicial way, and insist upon his own righteousness, and present his supplication to God on that account, he could never expect to be heard; and, indeed, he could not believe he should be heard on any account, so long as his present sufferings lasted; which seems to be the sense of what follows, where he gives his reasons for such belief, or rather unbelief.
q אם קראתי ויענני "etiamsi clamavi et respondit mihi", Schmidt. r כי יאזין "quod exauditurus esset", Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If I had called, and he had answered me - It is remarked by Schultens, that the expressions in these verses are all taken from courts of justice. If so, the meaning is, that even if Job should call the Almighty to a judicial action, and he should respond to him, and consent to submit the great question about his innocence, and about the justice of the divine dealings with him, to trial, yet that such was the distance between God and him, that he could not hope successfully to contend with him in the argument. He would, therefore, prostrate himself in a suppliant manner, and implore his mercy and compassion - submitting to him as having all power, and as being a just and righteous Sovereign.
Would I not believe - I cannot believe that he would enter into my complaint. He deals with me in a manner so severe; he acts toward me so much as a sovereign, that I have no reason to suppose that he would not continue to act toward me in the same way still.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 9:16. If I had called, and he had answered — I could scarcely suppose, such is his majesty and such his holiness, that he could condescend to notice a being so mean, and in every respect so infinitely beneath his notice. These sentiments sufficiently confuted that slander of his friends, who said he was presumptuous, had not becoming notions of the majesty of God, and used blasphemous expressions against his sovereign authority.
