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God's Overwhelming Power
Commentators agree this verse uses the powerful image of an earthquake to illustrate God's immense and irresistible might. Job is not denying God's justice but is expressing awe at a power so great it can shake the very foundations of the world, making human complaints seem futile in comparison.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 9:6
18th Century
Theologian
Which shaketh the earth out of her place - This evidently refers to violent convulsions of nature, as if the earth were to be taken…
John Gill
On Job 9:6
17th Century
Pastor
Which shaketh the earth out of her place
Can do it, and will do it at the last day, when it shall be utterly broken …
Matthew Henry
On Job 9:1–13
17th Century
Minister
In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied being a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before…