| Geneva Study Bible If God {g} will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers {h} do stoop under him. (g) God will not be appeased for anything that man can say for himself for his justification. (h) That is, all the reasons that men can lay to approve their cause. Wesley's Notes 9:13 Helpers - Those who undertake to uphold and defend one another against him. Stoop - Fall and are crushed by him. King James Translators' Notes proud...: Heb. helpers of pride, or, strength Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 13. If God-rather, "God will not withdraw His anger," that is, so long as a mortal obstinately resists [Umbreit]. the proud helpers-The arrogant, who would help one contending with the Almighty, are of no avail against Him. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 9:1-13 In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied himself to be a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before him he pleaded guilty of sins more than could be counted; and if God should contend with him in judgment, he could not justify one out of a thousand, of all the thoughts, words, and actions of his life; therefore he deserved worse than all his present sufferings. When Job mentions the wisdom and power of God, he forgets his complaints. We are unfit to judge of God's proceedings, because we know not what he does, or what he designs. God acts with power which no creature can resist. Those who think they have strength enough to help others, will not be able to help themselves against it. | 
