Job 28:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

Job 28:9 —

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Nahum 1:4-6
He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

Here Job shows, 1. What a great way the wit of man may go in diving into the depths of nature and seizing the riches of it, what a great deal of knowledge and wealth men may, by their ingenious and industrious searches, make themselves masters of. But does it therefore follow that men may, by their wit, comprehend the reasons why some wicked people prosper and others are punished, why some good pe…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. rock--flint. He puts forth his hand to cleave the hardest rock. by the roots--from their foundations, by undermining them.