Job 42:1
_THEN JOB ANSWERED THE LORD, AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN JOB ANSWERED THE LORD, AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_I KNOW THAT THOU CANST DO EVERY THING, AND THAT NO THOUGHT CAN BE WITHHOLDEN FROM THEE._ In the first clause ("I know that thou canst do everything") he owns God to be omnipotent over nature, as contrasted with his own feebleness, which God had proved (Job 40:15; Job 41:34); in the second ("no thou... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHO IS HE THAT HIDETH COUNSEL WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE? THEREFORE HAVE I UTTERED THAT I UNDERSTOOD NOT; THINGS TOO WONDERFUL FOR ME, WHICH I KNEW NOT._ Job, in God's own words (Job 38:2), expresses his deep and humble penitence. Thou hast asked. "Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge?" I take t... [ Continue Reading ]
_HEAR, I BESEECH THEE, AND I WILL SPEAK: I WILL DEMAND OF THEE, AND DECLARE THOU UNTO ME._ When I said, "Hear ... and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me" (Job 13:22); my demand convicted me of being "without knowledge." God alone could speak thus to Job, not Job to God: t... [ Continue Reading ]
_I HAVE HEARD OF THEE BY THE HEARING OF THE EAR: BUT NOW MINE EYE SEETH THEE._ Hearing of ear - (Psalms 18:44, margin.) Hearing and seeing are often in antithesis (Job 29:11; Psalms 48:8). SEETH - not God's face (Exodus 33:20, "Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me and live"),... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE I ABHOR MYSELF, AND REPENT IN DUST AND ASHES._ Myself - rather, 'I abhor,' and retract the rash speeches I made against thee (Job 42:3). (Umbreit.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT WAS SO, THAT AFTER THE LORD HAD SPOKEN THESE WORDS UNTO JOB, THE LORD SAID TO ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE, MY WRATH IS KINDLED AGAINST THEE, AND AGAINST THY TWO FRIENDS: FOR YE HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF ME THE THING THAT IS RIGHT, AS MY SERVANT JOB HATH._ To Eliphaz - because he was the foremost of the t... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE TAKE UNTO YOU NOW SEVEN BULLOCKS AND SEVEN RAMS, AND GO TO MY SERVANT JOB, AND OFFER UP FOR YOURSELVES A BURNT OFFERING; AND MY SERVANT JOB SHALL PRAY FOR YOU: FOR HIM WILL I ACCEPT: LEST I DEAL WITH YOU AFTER YOUR FOLLY, IN THAT YE HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF ME THE THING WHICH IS RIGHT, LIKE MY... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE AND BILDAD THE SHUHITE AND ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE WENT, AND DID ACCORDING AS THE LORD COMMANDED THEM: THE LORD ALSO ACCEPTED JOB._ The forgiving spirit of Job foreshadows the love of Jesus Christ and of Christians to enemies (Matthew 5:44; Luke 23:34; Acts 7:60; Acts 16:24;... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD TURNED THE CAPTIVITY OF JOB, WHEN HE PRAYED FOR HIS FRIENDS: ALSO THE LORD GAVE JOB TWICE AS MUCH AS HE HAD BEFORE._ Turned ... captivity - proverbial for restored, or amply indemnified him for all he had lost (Ezekiel 16:53; Psalms 14:7, "When the Lord bringeth back the captivity of... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN CAME THERE UNTO HIM ALL HIS BRETHREN, AND ALL HIS SISTERS, AND ALL THEY THAT HAD BEEN OF HIS ACQUAINTANCE BEFORE, AND DID EAT BREAD WITH HIM IN HIS HOUSE: AND THEY BEMOANED HIM, AND COMFORTED HIM OVER ALL THE EVIL THAT THE LORD HAD BROUGHT UPON HIM: EVERY MAN ALSO GAVE HIM A PIECE OF MONEY, AN... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THE LORD BLESSED THE LATTER END OF JOB MORE THAN HIS BEGINNING: FOR HE HAD FOURTEEN THOUSAND SHEEP, AND SIX THOUSAND CAMELS, AND A THOUSAND YOKE OF OXEN, AND A THOUSAND SHE ASSES._ Probably by degrees, not all at once.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE HAD ALSO SEVEN SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS._ The same number as before: perhaps by a second wife: in Job 19:17 his wife last mentioned.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE CALLED THE NAME OF THE FIRST, JEMIMA; AND THE NAME OF THE SECOND, KEZIA; AND THE NAME OF THE THIRD, KERENHAPPUCH._ Names significant of his restored prosperity (Genesis 4:25; Genesis 5:29). Jemima, daylight, after his "night" of calamity: but Maurer, 'a dove,' from an Arabic root. Kezia, ca... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IN ALL THE LAND WERE NO WOMEN FOUND SO FAIR AS THE DAUGHTERS OF JOB: AND THEIR FATHER GAVE THEM INHERITANCE AMONG THEIR BRETHREN._ Inheritance among ... brethren - an unusual favour in the East to daughters, who, in the Jewish law, only inherited if there were no sons (Numbers 27:8), a proof o... [ Continue Reading ]
_AFTER THIS LIVED JOB AN HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS, AND SAW HIS SONS, AND HIS SONS' SONS, EVEN FOUR GENERATIONS._ The Septuagint make Job live 170 years after his calamity, and 240 in all. This would make him 70 at the time of his calamity, which, added to 140 in the Hebrew text, make up 210-little m... [ Continue Reading ]
Full of days - fully sated and contented with all the happiness that life could give him; realizing what Eliphaz had painted as the lot of the godly (Job 5:26, "Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of grain cometh in in his season;" Psalms 91:16; Genesis 25:8; Genesis 35:29).... [ Continue Reading ]