Job 9:6

"He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger."

Key Reflection

In Job 9:6, God's power is vividly depicted through imagery of natural disasters. When God "removes the mountains" and "overturns them in his anger," it illustrates both His immense strength and the suddenness with which He can act. This verse underscores how even those affected by divine wrath might not fully comprehend or recognize the true nature of their calamity, emphasizing the incomprehensible scale and force of God's power as experienced by humans.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Which shaketh the earth out of her place -This evidently refers to violent convulsions of nature, as if the earth were to be taken away. Objects on the earth’s surface become displaced, and convulsion seems to seize the world. The Septuagint renders this, “who shaketh that which is under the heavens from its foundations” -ἐκ Θεμελίωνekthemeliōn. The change in the Hebrew would be very slight to authorize this rendering. And the pillars thereof tremble -In this place the earth is represented as sustained like a building by pillars or columns.

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