_MOREOVER JOB CONTINUED HIS PARABLE, AND SAID,_ Job 27:1. It was now Zophar's turn to speak. But as he and the other two were silent, virtually admitting defeat, after a pause, Job proceeds. PARABLE, х_ MAASHAAL_ (H4912)] - applied in the East to a figurative sententious embodiment of wisdom in p... [ Continue Reading ]
_AS GOD LIVETH, WHO HATH TAKEN AWAY MY JUDGMENT; AND THE ALMIGHTY, WHO HATH VEXED MY SOUL;_ As God liveth - (1 Samuel 20:3). AS GOD LIVETH - (1 Samuel 20:3). TAKEN AWAY ... JUDGMENT - words unconsciously foreshadowing Jesus Christ (Isaiah 53:8; Acts 8:33). God will not give Job his right by decla... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALL THE WHILE MY BREATH IS IN ME, AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS IN MY NOSTRILS;_ Implying Job's knowledge of the fact that the living soul was breathed into man by God (Genesis 2:7). ALL THE WHILE. But Maurer, 'as yet all my breath is in me (notwithstanding my trials)'-the reason why I can speak so b... [ Continue Reading ]
_MY LIPS SHALL NOT SPEAK WICKEDNESS, NOR MY TONGUE UTTER DECEIT._ (Job 6:28; Job 6:30.) The "deceit" would be, if he were to admit guilt, against the witness of his conscience.... [ Continue Reading ]
_GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD JUSTIFY YOU: TILL I DIE I WILL NOT REMOVE MINE INTEGRITY FROM ME._ Justify you - approve of your views. MINE INTEGRITY - which you deny, on account of my misfortunes.... [ Continue Reading ]
_MY RIGHTEOUSNESS I HOLD FAST, AND WILL NOT LET IT GO: MY HEART SHALL NOT REPROACH ME SO LONG AS I LIVE._ Rather, 'my heart' (conscience) reproaches 'not one of my days' - i:e., I do not repent of any of my days since I came into existence х_ MIYAAMAAY_ (H3117)] (Maurer).... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET MINE ENEMY BE AS THE WICKED, AND HE THAT RISETH UP AGAINST ME AS THE UNRIGHTEOUS._ Let ... be - let mine enemy be accounted as wicked; i:e., He who opposes my asseveration of innocence must be regarded as actuated by criminal hostility. Not a curse on his enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR WHAT IS THE HOPE OF THE HYPOCRITE, THOUGH HE HATH GAINED, WHEN GOD TAKETH AWAY HIS SOUL?_ 'What hope hath the hypocrite, notwithstanding all his gains, when?' etc. "Gained" [batsaa`] is antithetic to "taketh away.'' Umbreit's a translation is an unmeaning tautology: 'When God cuts off, when He... [ Continue Reading ]
_WILL GOD HEAR HIS CRY WHEN TROUBLE COMETH UPON HIM?_ (Psalms 66:18, "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.")... [ Continue Reading ]
_WILL HE DELIGHT HIMSELF IN THE ALMIGHTY? WILL HE ALWAYS CALL UPON GOD?_ Alluding to Job 22:26. ALWAYS CALL - he may do so in times of prosperity, in order to be thought religious. But he will not, as I do, call on God in calamities verging on death. Therefore I cannot be a "hypocrite" (Job 19:25... [ Continue Reading ]
_I WILL TEACH YOU BY THE HAND OF GOD: THAT WHICH IS WITH THE ALMIGHTY WILL I NOT CONCEAL._ These words are contrary to Job's previous sentiments (notes, Job 21:22; Job 24:22). They therefore seem to be Job's statement, not so much of his own sentiments, as of what Zophar would have said, had he spok... [ Continue Reading ]