Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 9:13

13. If God will not withdraw his anger , the proud helpers , do stoop under him .

i. e. If God resolve not to withdraw his Rod and stroak, the Effect of his Anger. Or, without if, which is not in the Hebrew, God will not withdraw his anger, i. e. not forbear to punish, neither because any man can over-power and restrain him; nor for fear lest he should rebuke him for proceeding to punish, as is implied by comparing this Verse with the former.

i. e. Those men who shall undertake to uphold and defend him whom God intends to punish and destroy; who are fitly called proud helpers, because this is a most proud, and insolent, and presumptuous act to oppose themselves to the Lord God Almighty, and to his Coun[illegible: 1+ letters]el▪ and Courses; or (as it is in the Hebrew) Helpers of pride, because they give assistance to that man who carries himself proudly and stoutly towards God, under his correcting-hand: Or (as some translate it) the helpers of Egypt, or the Egyptian helpers; i. e. the most poten[illegible: 1+ letters] helpers: for Egypt was in Iob's time a powerful and flourishing Kingdom, and not far from Iob's Country. And the word Rahab here rendred pride, is elsewhere put for Egypt, as Psalm 87. 4. Isa. 51. 9. And (as some take it) Iob 26. 12.

i. e. Shall fall and be crushed by him; and consequently they who are helped by him must fall with them.

Marginal references: Heb. helpers of pride or strength.