Job 13:1
_LO, MINE EYE HATH SEEN ALL THIS, MINE EAR HATH HEARD AND UNDERSTOOD IT._ Mine eye hath seen all this - as to the dealings of Providence (Job 12:3).... [ Continue Reading ]
_LO, MINE EYE HATH SEEN ALL THIS, MINE EAR HATH HEARD AND UNDERSTOOD IT._ Mine eye hath seen all this - as to the dealings of Providence (Job 12:3).... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHAT YE KNOW, THE SAME DO I KNOW ALSO: I AM NOT INFERIOR UNTO YOU._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SURELY I WOULD SPEAK TO THE ALMIGHTY, AND I DESIRE TO REASON WITH GOD._ Surely I would speak to the Almighty. Job wishes to plead his cause before God (Job 9:34), as he is more and more convinced of the valueless character of his would-be "physicians" (Job 16:2). As the Almighty power of God precl... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT YE ARE FORGERS OF LIES, YE ARE ALL PHYSICIANS OF NO VALUE._ Forgers of lies - literally, artful twisters of vain speeches (Umbreit).... [ Continue Reading ]
_O THAT YE WOULD ALTOGETHER HOLD YOUR PEACE! AND IT SHOULD BE YOUR WISDOM._ (Proverbs 17:28, "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.") The Arabs say, 'The wise are dumb: silence is wisdom.'... [ Continue Reading ]
_HEAR NOW MY REASONING, AND HEARKEN TO THE PLEADINGS OF MY LIPS._ Pleadings of my lips - `reproofs of my lips:' the reproofs which my lips will lay upon you: so Septuagint (Maurer) х_ RIYBOWT_ (H7378)].... [ Continue Reading ]
_WILL YE SPEAK WICKEDLY FOR GOD? AND TALK DECEITFULLY FOR HIM?_ Deceitfully - use fallacies to vindicate God in His dealings, as if the end justified the means. Their 'deceitfulness' for God against Job was, they asserted he was a sinner, because he was a sufferer.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WILL YE ACCEPT HIS PERSON? WILL YE CONTEND FOR GOD?_ Accept his person - God's; i:e., be partial for Him, as when a judge favours one party in a trial, because of personal considerations. CONTEND FOR GOD - namely, with fallacies and prepossessions against Job before judgment (Judges 6:31). Parti... [ Continue Reading ]
_IS IT GOOD THAT HE SHOULD SEARCH YOU OUT? OR AS ONE MAN MOCKETH ANOTHER, DO YE SO MOCK HIM?_ Will the issue to you be good, when He searches out you (Maurer) and your arguments? Will you be regarded by Him, as pure and disinterested? MOCK - (Galatians 6:7, "God is not mocked"): 'Can you deceive... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE WILL SURELY REPROVE YOU, IF YE DO SECRETLY ACCEPT PERSONS._ If ye do, though secretly, act partially. (Note, Job 13:8; Psalms 82:1, "How long will ye judge unjustly and accept of the persons of the wicked?") God can successfully vindicate His acts, and needs no fallacious argument of man.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SHALL NOT HIS EXCELLENCY MAKE YOU AFRAID? AND HIS DREAD FALL UPON YOU?_ _ SHALL NOT HIS EXCELLENCY MAKE YOU AFRAID? AND HIS DREAD FALL UPON YOU?_ Make you afraid? - namely, of employing sophisms in His name, (Jeremiah 10:7; Jeremiah 10:10, "Who would not fear thee, O King of nations ... At His wra... [ Continue Reading ]
_YOUR REMEMBRANCES ARE LIKE UNTO ASHES, YOUR BODIES TO BODIES OF CLAY._ Remembrances - `proverbial maxims,' so called because well-remembered: 'memorial sentences,' ARE - rather, shall become. The old sentences to which you refer me (Job 8:8) shall become sentences of ashes. LIKE UNTO ASHES - or,... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOLD YOUR PEACE, LET ME ALONE, THAT I MAY SPEAK, AND LET COME ON ME WHAT WILL._ Job would wish to be spared their speeches, so as to speak out all his mind as to his wretchedness (Job 13:14), happen what will.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE DO I TAKE MY FLESH IN MY TEETH, AND PUT MY LIFE IN MINE HAND?_ A proverb for, 'Why should I anxiously desire to save my life?' (Eichorn). The image in the first clause is that of a wild beast, which, in order to preserve his prey, carries it in his teeth. That in the second refers to men... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST IN HIM: BUT I WILL MAINTAIN MINE OWN WAYS BEFORE HIM._ In him - so the margin, or Qeri', reads х_ LOW_ (H3807a)]. But the textual reading (Kethibh) is 'not,' which agrees best with the context, and other passages wherein he says he has no hope (Job 6:11; Job 7:6... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE ALSO SHALL BE MY SALVATION: FOR AN HYPOCRITE SHALL NOT COME BEFORE HIM._ He - rather, 'This also already speaks in my behalf (literally, 'for my saving acquittal'); because a hypocrite would not wish to come before Him' (as I do). (Umbreit) (See last clause of Job 13:15)... [ Continue Reading ]
_HEAR DILIGENTLY MY SPEECH, AND MY DECLARATION WITH YOUR EARS._ My declaration - namely, that I wish to be permitted to justify myself immediately before God. WITH YOUR EARS - i:e., attentively.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BEHOLD NOW, I HAVE ORDERED MY CAUSE; I KNOW THAT I SHALL BE JUSTIFIED._ Ordered - implying a constant preparation for defense in his confidence of innocence.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHO IS HE THAT WILL PLEAD WITH ME? FOR NOW, IF I HOLD MY TONGUE, I SHALL GIVE UP THE GHOST._ If ... - rather, 'then would I hold my tongue, and give up the ghost;' i:e., if any one can contend with me, and prove me false, I have no more to say; 'I will be silent, and die.' Like our 'I would stake... [ Continue Reading ]
_ONLY DO NOT TWO THINGS UNTO ME: THEN WILL I NOT HIDE MYSELF FROM THEE._ Address to God. NOT HIDE - stand forth boldly to maintain my cause.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WITHDRAW THINE HAND FAR FROM ME: AND LET NOT THY DREAD MAKE ME AFRAID._ (Note, Job 9:34; Psalms 39:10, "Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand"). The "two things" (Job 13:20) which Job requests are: (1) That God will withdraw His heavily pressing hand from him - i... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN CALL THOU, AND I WILL ANSWER: OR LET ME SPEAK, AND ANSWER THOU ME._ Call - a challenge to the defendant to answer to the charges. ANSWER - the defense begun. SPEAK - as plaintiff. ANSWER - to the plea of the plaintiff. Expressions from a trial.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOW MANY ARE MINE INIQUITIES AND SINS? MAKE ME TO KNOW MY TRANSGRESSION AND MY SIN._ The catalogue of my sins ought to be great, to judge from the severity with which God ever anew crushes one already bowed down. Would that He would reckon them up! He then would see how much my calamities outnumbe... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE HIDEST THOU THY FACE, AND HOLDEST ME FOR THINE ENEMY?_ Hidest ... face - a figure from the gloomy impression caused by the sudden clouding over of the sun. ENEMY. God treated Job as an enemy who must be robbed of power by ceaseless sufferings (Job 7:17; Job 7:21).... [ Continue Reading ]
_WILT THOU BREAK A LEAF DRIVEN TO AND FRO? AND WILT THOU PURSUE THE DRY STUBBLE?_ (Leviticus 26:36; Psalms 1:4). Job compares himself to a leaf already fallen, which the storm still chases here and there. BREAK - literally, shake with (thy) terrors. Jesus Christ does not "break the bruised reed... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THOU WRITEST BITTER THINGS AGAINST ME, AND MAKEST ME TO POSSESS THE INIQUITIES OF MY YOUTH._ Writest - a judicial phrase, to note down the determined punishment. The sentence of the condemned used to be written down (Isaiah 10:1; Jeremiah 22:30; Psalms 149:9). (Umbreit.) BITTER THINGS - bitt... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU PUTTEST MY FEET ALSO IN THE STOCKS, AND LOOKEST NARROWLY UNTO ALL MY PATHS; THOU SETTEST A PRINT UPON THE HEELS OF MY FEET._ Stocks - in which the prisoner's feet were made fast until the time of execution (Jeremiah 20:2). LOOKEST NARROWLY - as an overseer would watch a prisoner. PRINT. E... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE, AS A ROTTEN THING, CONSUMETH, AS A GARMENT THAT IS MOTH EATEN._ Job speaks of himself in the third person, thus forming the transition to the general lot of man (Job 14:1; Psalms 39:11; Hosea 5:12). The sense is, Wilt not thou, in the case of one so consumed and worn out by disease, grant... [ Continue Reading ]