Job 9:10

10 [He is the one] who does great things {beyond understanding} and marvelous things {beyond number}.

Job 9:10 Meaning and Commentary

Job 9:10

Which doth great things past finding out
In heaven and earth; great as to quantity and quality, not to be thoroughly searched out so as to tell their numbers, nor explain and express the nature of them to the full; even what he has done, and does in creation, providence, and grace:

yea, and wonders without number;
such as are amazing to men, who cannot account for them, and so many that they cannot number them. The same things are said by Eliphaz, (See Gill on Job 5:9); and which Job here repeats, to show that he agreed with him, and was ready to own what was truth, whenever expressed by him or his friends, and especially such as made for the glory of the Divine Being.

Job 9:10 In-Context

8 [He is the one] who alone stretches out [the] heavens and [who] tramples on [the] waves of [the] sea.
9 [He is the one] who made [the] Bear [and] Orion, [the] Pleiades and [the] constellations of [the] south.
10 [He is the one] who does great things {beyond understanding} and marvelous things {beyond number}.
11 "{If} he passes by me, {I would not see him}; and [if] he should move on, {I would not recognize him}.
12 {If} he would snatch away, who could turn him? Who could say to him, 'What are you doing?'

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Literally "until there is not understanding"
  • [b]. Literally "until there is not number"
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