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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Job 31:23

Bear. I knew that he would resent the injury, though I might, for a time, oppress the weak.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 31:23. _DESTRUCTION_ FROM _GOD_ WAS _A TERROR_] I have ever been preserved from outward sin, through the fear of God's judgments; I knew his eye was constantly upon me, and I could "Never i...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR DESTRUCTION FROM GOD WAS A TERROR TO ME - The destruction which God would bring upon one who was guilty of the crime here specified, awed and restrained me. He was deterred from this crime of oppr...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 31 _ 1. My chastity and righteousness (Job 31:1)_ 2. My philanthropy (Job 31:13) 3. My integrity and hospitality (Job 31:24) 4. Let God and man disprove me ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 31. THE OATH OF CLEARING. Job's final protestation of his innocence, and appeal to God to judge him. This chapter, says Duhm, is the high-water mark of the OT ethic, higher than the Decalogue or e...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HIGHNESS. majesty. ENDURE. escape....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. Was upright in his domestic relations (Job 31:9-15) c. He was kind and neighborly. (Job 31:16-23) TEXT 31:9-23 9 IF MY HEART HATH BEEN ENTICED ONTO A WOMAN, And I have laid wait at my neighbo...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _IF I DID DESPISE THE CAUSE OF MY MANSERVANT OR OF MY MAIDSERVANT, WHEN THEY CONTENDED WITH ME;_ Job affirms his freedom from unfairness toward his servants: from harshness and oppression toward the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB PROTESTS THE INNOCENCE OF HIS PAST LIFE Job's virtues are those of a great Arab prince, such as are admired still: namely, blameless family life, consideration for the poor and weak, charity, mod...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The THOUGHT of God's displeasure checked him, and a sense of His majesty kept him from sinning. 26-28. A reference to the worship of the heavenly bodies (cp. 2 Kings 21:3; Jeremiah 44:17; Ezekiel 8:1...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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 31 JOB FINISHES HIS LAST SP...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Many people today do not think that they should help poor people. And many people are only generous to their own friends and family. But the Bible teaches that we should be generous to other people al...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I COULD NOT ENDURE. — Rather, _I was unable to act thus. _...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י פַ֣חַד אֵ֭לַי אֵ֣יד אֵ֑ל וּ֝ מִ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1; Job 30:1; Job 31:1 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the y...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE CLEAN LIFE Job 31:1 Job had specially guarded against impurity, for its heritage is one of calamity and disaster. He is sure that even if he were weighed by God Himself there would be no iniquity...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This whole chapter is taken up with Job's solemn oath of innocence. It is ills official answer to the line of argument adopted by his three friends. In the process of his declaration he called on God...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For destruction [from] God [was] a (q) terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. (q) I did not refrain from sin for fear of men, but because I feared God....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (9) В¶ If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; (10) Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. (11) For this is an heino...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR DESTRUCTION [FROM] GOD [WAS] A TERROR TO ME,.... Though he feared not men, they being at his beck and command, ready to do any thing for him he should order, yet he feared God; and the dread of hi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For destruction [from] God [was] a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. Ver. 23. _For destruction from God was a terror to me_] Such an eminent and exemplary calamity or mi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For destruction_, &c. I stood in awe of God, and his justice and wrath, and therefore made it my care and business to shun sin, and to please him. _And by reason of his highness_ His excellence or ma...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For destruction from God was a terror to me, Job's fear of God's vengeance had always kept him from wicked acts of this kind, AND BY REASON OF HIS HIGHNESS I COULD NOT ENDURE, being powerless before t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB RECOUNTS HIS BLAMELESS CONDUCT...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Though Job's misery was complete, he returns in this chapter to the defence of his whole life, which was comparatively more virtuous than that of any other man. God had said this to Satan long before...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Being terrified by God's ability to destroy the wicked is not. bad thing, along with loving God, this fear of God had helped him stay on the straight and narrow....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    16-23 Job's conscience gave testimony concerning his just and charitable behaviour toward the poor. He is most large upon this head, because in this matter he was particularly accused. He was tender...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I was so far from denying or questioning God's providence, wherewith you seem to charge me, that I always reverenced it; and when by reason of my great wealth, and power, and interest I had little rea...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 31:23 destruction H343 God H410 terror H6343 magnificence H7613 endure H3201 (H8799) destruction - Jo

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He insists on his integrity. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: An upright heart does not dread a scrutiny. A good man is willing to know the worst of himse...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 31:1. _A maid._ The LXX, followed by the Chaldaic, read virgin; but our English version has the most ancient support. Job was pure and spotless in conversation with women. He abhorred seduction, a...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I made a covenant with mine eyes._ GUARD THE SENSES Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear. (_W. Gurnall._) METHODS OF MORAL...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 31:16 The law commanded Israelites to care for the POOR, WIDOW, FATHERLESS, and NEEDY ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S SELF-VINDICATION.—HIS SOLILOQUY CONTINUED_ Concludes his speeches by a solemn, particular, and extended declaration of the purity and uprightness of his life. Especial reference to his _private...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The conclusion of Job's long speech (ch. 26-31.) is now reached. He winds it up by a solemn vindication of himself from all the charges of wicked conduct which have been alleged or insinuat...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Job, chapter 31. Job has pretty well talked down all of his friends. Bildad has had his last word and Job is still responding, and has been responding, actua...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 5:11; Genesis 39:9; Isaiah 13:6; Job 13:11; Job 20:23;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For — I stood in awe of God and of his judgments. I could not — I knew myself unable either to oppose his power, or to bear his wrath. Even good men have need to restrain themselves from sin, with the...

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