Job 9:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

Job 9:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 36:5
Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
Ephesians 3:20
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Romans 11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Job 9:19
If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
Proverbs 29:1
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Atheism Attributes of God Bowels Deafness God Godlessness Guidance

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-13)

Bildad began with a rebuke to Job for talking so much, Job 8:2. Job makes no answer to that, though it would have been easy enough to retort it upon himself; but in what he next lays down as his principle, that God never perverts judgment, Job agrees with him: I know it is so of a truth, Job 9:2. Note, We should be ready to own how far we agree with those with whom we dispute, and should not sligh…

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

(vv. 4)

4. wise in heart--in understanding!--and mighty in power! God confounds the ablest arguer by His wisdom, and the mightiest by His power. hardened himself--or his neck (Pr 29:1); that is, defied God. To prosper, one must fall in with God’s arrangements of providence and grace.