George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 17:4
Understanding. They will not answer for me. They are not of such a generous disposition; nor can they distinguish between the punishment of guilt and the trial of virtue. (Calmet)
Understanding. They will not answer for me. They are not of such a generous disposition; nor can they distinguish between the punishment of guilt and the trial of virtue. (Calmet)
Verse Job 17:4. _FOR THOU HAST HID THEIR HEART_] This address is to _God_; and here he is represented as _doing_ that which in the course of his providence he only _permits_ to be done. _SHALT THOU...
FOR THOU HAST HID THEIR HEART FROM UNDERSTANDING - That is, the heart of his professed friends. Job says that they were blind and perverse, and indisposed to render him justice; and he therefore plead...
CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ _ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_ 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...
JOB 16:22 TO JOB 17:16. Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. JOB 17:2 is obscure; the general sense seems to be...
These verses support the petition in Job 17:3. If God will not undertake for Job none else will, for the hearts of his friends have been blinded. This thought of the perverse obstinacy and cruelty of...
This verse answers the question in Job 17:3, Who (else) will strike hands with me? None else will, for the hearts of the three friends and all others have been blinded, and can take no true view of th...
New appeal to God that He would undertake for Job or give him a pledge that he would cause his innocence to be acknowledged by God, Job 17:3; with the grounds for this prayer as before, Job 17:4....
Job 16:18 to Job 17:9. Job, dying a martyr's death, beseeches God that He would uphold his right with God and against men, and give him a pledge that He will make his innocence appear In Job 16:12 Jo...
4. Yet his condition is such that his hope will soon go with him to the grave. (Job 17:1-16) TEXT 17:1-16 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is _ready_ for me. 2 Surely there are...
_FOR THOU HAST HID THEIR HEART FROM UNDERSTANDING: THEREFORE SHALT THOU NOT EXALT THEM._ Hid - withheld. THEIR HEART - the intellect of his friends. SHALT ... EXALT - rather, imperative, exalt th...
JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the pre...
The friends are too prejudiced against Job to speak on his behalf. NOT EXALT THEM] i.e. not let their views triumph....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 17 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
Job’s friends did not know that Job was innocent. And Job thought that God had caused this situation. So Job prayed that God would declare him innocent....
THEIR HEART. — i.e., the heart of his friends....
כִּֽי ־לִ֭בָּם צָפַ֣נְתָּ מִ שָּׂ֑כֶל עַל ־כ֝
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1; Job 17:1 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...
“THE BARS OF SHEOL” Job 17:1 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks that God would...
Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterable...
For thou hast hid their heart from (e) understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them]. (e) That these my afflictions are your just judgments, though man does not know the reason....
(4) For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. (5) He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. (6) He hath made me a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
FOR THOU HAST HID THEIR HEART FROM UNDERSTANDING,.... That is, the hearts of his friends, and therefore they were unfit to undertake his cause, or be sureties for him, or be judges in it. It is the sa...
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them]. Ver. 4. _Thou hast hid their heart from understanding_] That is, thou hast hidden understanding from their hea...
_Thou hast hid their heart from understanding_ Rather, _thou hast hid understanding from their heart._ The minds of my friends are so blinded, that they cannot see those truths which are most plain an...
For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding, his friends were so short-sighted and narrow-minded that they were prevented from seeing and acknowledging Job's innocence; THEREFORE SHALT THOU NOT E...
JOB COMPLAINS OF HIS WEAKNESS...
Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...
"FOR YOU HAVE KEPT THEIR HEART FROM UNDERSTANDING": Job's friends were mindless of his innocence....
1-9 Job reflects upon the harsh censures his friends had passed upon him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending. It concerns us carefully to redeem the days of...
Thou hast blinded the minds of my friends, that they can not see those truths which are most plain and evident to all men of sense and experience; therefore I desire a more wise and able judge. THEREF...
Job 17:4 hidden H6845 (H8804) heart H3820 understanding H7922 exalt H7311 (H8787) 2 Samuel 15:31
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He longs for death. CHARACTERS: Job. CONCLUSION: The believer should recognize that wherever he goes there is but a step between him and the grave and should always...
Job 17:1. _My breath is corrupt._ Schultens reads, _corruptus est spiritus meus:_ “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye weeps...
_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Bemoans his dying condition (Job 17:1). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished, as a l...
EXPOSITION JOB 17:1 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1. It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment by his friends, and...
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who...
1 Corinthians 1:20; 2 Chronicles 25:16; 2 Samuel 15:31; 2 Samuel 17:14;...
Hid — Thou hast blinded the minds of my friends: therefore I desire a more wise and able judge. Therefore — Thou wilt not give them the victory over me in this contest, but wilt make them ashamed of t...