JOB CHAPTER 2 Satan's second appearance before God: Job's character
continuing the same, condemneth Satan, JOB 2:1. Satan judgeth him not
sufficiently tried, unless his body suffer; and so obtaineth leave to
hurt his body, but not touch his life, JOB 2:4. Job, smote with boils,
scrapeth himself, and... [ Continue Reading ]
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STILL, notwithstanding all his trials and tribulations, and thy
malicious suggestion to the contrary, he holdeth fast his integrity,
i.e. he continues to be the same perfect and upright man which he was
before. All thy endeavours to pull away his integrity have made him
only to hold it the faster. T... [ Continue Reading ]
The design of these words is plain, which is to detract from Job, and
to diminish that honour and praise which God gave to Job, by
pretending that he had done no more than the meanest men commonly do
by the law of self-reservation. And it is as clear that this was a
proverbial speech then in use, wh... [ Continue Reading ]
TOUCH, i.e. smite him, not slightly, but to the quick, and to the
bones and marrow, so as he may feel pain and anguish indeed, which is
oft expressed by reaching to the bones, as PSALMS 6:2, PSALMS 32:3
51:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
Do not attempt to take away his life, which I will not suffer thee to
do.... [ Continue Reading ]
Like those inflicted upon the Egyptians, which are expressed by the
same word, and threatened to apostate Israelites, DEUTERONOMY 28:27,
whereby he was made loathsome to himself and to his nearest relations,
DEUTERONOMY 19:13,19, and a visible monument of Divine displeasure,
and filled with tiring a... [ Continue Reading ]
HE TOOK HIM A POTSHERD; partly to allay the itch which his ulcers
caused; and partly to squeeze out or take away that purulent matter
which was under them, or flowed from them, and was the great cause of
his torment. And this he did not with soft linen cloths, either
because he had not now a suffici... [ Continue Reading ]
The devil spared _his wife_ with cruel intent to be the instrument of
his temptations, and the aggravation of Job's misery, by unnatural
unkindness to him, which is declared JOB 19:17, and elsewhere. DOST
THOU STILL RETAIN THINE INTEGRITY? art thou yet so weak to persist in
the practice of piety, wh... [ Continue Reading ]
AS ONE OF THE FOOLISH WOMEN, i.e. like a rash, and inconsiderate, and
weak person that dost not understand nor mind what thou sayest. Or,
like a wicked and most profane person; for such are frequently called
fools in Scripture, as PSALMS 14:1, PSALMS 74:18, and everywhere in
the Proverbs. Shall we p... [ Continue Reading ]
They were persons then eminent for birth and quality, for wisdom and
knowledge, and for the profession of the true religion, being probably
of the posterity of Abraham, and akin to Job, and living in the same
country with him.... [ Continue Reading ]
AFAR OFF, to wit, at some convenient distance from him; whom they
found sitting upon the ground, either in the open air, or within his
own house. KNEW HIM NOT; his countenance being so fearfully changed
and disfigured by his boils. SPRINKLED DUST UPON THEIR HEADS TOWARD
HEAVEN; either upon the upper... [ Continue Reading ]
SAT DOWN WITH HIM UPON THE GROUND, in the posture of mourners
condoling with him. SEVEN DAYS AND SEVEN NIGHTS was the usual time of
mourning for the dead, GENESIS 1:10 1 SAMUEL 31:13, and therefore
proper both for Job's children, who were dead, and for Job himself,
who was in a manner dead whilst he... [ Continue Reading ]