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Verse Job 27:18. _HE BUILDETH HIS HOUSE AS A MOTH_] With great skill,
great pains, and great industry; but the structure, however skilful,
shall be dissolved; and the materials, however costly, shall...
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HE BUILDETH HIS HOUSE AS A MOTH - The house which the moth builds is
the slight fabric which it makes for its own dwelling in the garment
which it consumes. On this verse compare Job 8:14. The dwellin...
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CHAPTER 27 JOB'S CLOSING WORDS IN SELF-VINDICATION
_ 1. My righteousness I hold fast (Job 27:1)_
2. The contrast between himself and the wicked (Job 27:7)
Job 27:1. Zophar, the third friend, no long...
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THIRD SPEECH OF ZOPHAR. He once more reiterates, in spite of all Job
has said, that the wicked shall perish. He bursts out Let mine enemy
be as God's enemy. I can wish him no worse doom. In Job 27:8 t...
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BOOTH. Generally made of branches of trees. Compare Isaiah 1:8.
KEEPER. watcher: i.e. vineyard watcher....
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The utter destruction of the wicked man is exhibited in three turns:
his children and descendants are destined for the sword, and become
the prey of famine and pestilence (Job 27:13); his wealth and
p...
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The disastrous fate of the wicked man at the hand of God.
Job 27:7-10 drew a contrast between the internal state of the mind of
the speaker and that of the sinner; in these verses the contrast is
pur...
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The "booth" of the "keeper" referred to is the flimsy hut erected in
the vineyard or other gardens as a post for the watchman, who protects
the fruit from theft or destruction by wild beasts. As descr...
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A BOOTH THAT THE KEEPER MAKETH— Here is an omission of the word
_vineyard:_ these _booths_ were little huts or arbours made by the
keepers to watch in by night, to prevent the vineyard from being
plun...
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B. NO BELIEVERS ANONYMOUS,
I.E., NO UNIVERSAL SALVATION (Job 27:7-23)
TEXT 27:7-23
7 LET MINE ENEMY BE AS THE WICKED,
And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.
8 For what is th...
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_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 b...
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JOB'S EIGHTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED)
1-6. Job protests that he is innocent.
Job 27:1 are an enlargement of what Job had previously said (Job
13:16) of his determination not to admit that he was being puni...
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AS A MOTH] like the frail chrysalis or cocoon. AS A BOOTH] like the
temporary shelter of the vineyard watchman.
19-23. The passage refers to the final fall of the wicked. In the
Persian sacred books w...
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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 27
JOB CONTINUES HIS LAST S...
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In other words, the wicked man might seem powerful. But his life is
weak. He can die in a moment (Matthew 7:26-27; Luke 12:16-20)....
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בָּנָ֣ה כָ † עָ֣שׁ בֵּיתֹ֑ו וּ֝ כְ...
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XXII.
THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS
Job 26:1; Job 27:1
Job SPEAKS
BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm.
"How hast thou helped one without power!
How hast thou saved the strengthless...
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THE JUSTICE OF GOD
Job 27:1
Zophar ought now to have taken up the discourse, but, as he is silent,
Job proceeds. First he renews _his protestations of integrity,_ Job
27:1. He denies the charge of be...
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There would seem to have been a pause after Job's answer to Bildad.
The suggestion is that he waited for Zophar, and seeing that Zophar
was silent, he took the initiative, and made general reply.
This...
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He buildeth his house as a (m) moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper
maketh.
(m) Which breeds in another man's possessions or garment, but is soon
shaken out....
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Moth. Hebrew, "as the polar star." (Junius) --- But the Chaldean, &c.,
translate with the Vulgate, which agrees better with the latter part
of the verse. The moth devours another's property, like the...
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(11) В¶ I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the
Almighty will I not conceal. (12) Behold, all ye yourselves have seen
it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? (13) This is the por...
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_THE DESTROYER DESTROYED_
‘As a moth.’
Job 27:18
The moth is best known by its destructive work upon garments. The
little pest considers not the value or the beauty of the fur which
comes in its wa...
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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...
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HE BUILDETH HIS HOUSE AS A MOTH,.... Which builds its house in a
garment by eating into it, and so destroying it, and in time eats
itself out of house and home, and however does not continue long in
i...
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He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper
maketh.
Ver. 18. _He buildeth his house as a moth_] Which lodgeth itself in
some stately garment, and thinks there to die in his nest...
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_Prepare raiment as the clay_ In great abundance. _But the just shall
put it on_ Either because it shall be given to him by the magistrate,
to recompense him for those injuries which he had received f...
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He buildeth his house as a moth, a frail and temporary dwelling, AND
AS A BOOTH THAT THE KEEPER MAKETH, a shed which a watchman puts up for
a few days....
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Belief in the Final Destruction of the Ungodly....
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HOLDING FAST HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS
(vv.1-7)
In Chapter 26 Job answered Bildad fully. Bildad's last argument was
very brief, and after this Zophar had nothing at all to say. Job has
already won the debat...
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His house or family that appears to be so strong is actually as flimsy
as. spider's web, or. temporary hut built by. farmer during harvest
season so he can guard his crops....
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11-23 Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of
wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job
considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their
death...
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Job 27:18 builds H1129 (H8804) house H1004 moth H6211 booth H5521
watchman H5341 (H8802) makes H6213 ...
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Remember that Job's friends had accused him of having committed some
great sin; which would account for his great sorrows. The good man is
naturally very indignant, and he uses the strongest possible...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad continued.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends.
CONCLUSION: The consideration of the miserable condition of the
hypocrite should engage us to be upright.
KEY WORD: Hypocr...
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Job 27:1. _Parable,_ equivalent to a wise, learned and conclusive
speech.
Job 27:2. _God hath taken away my judgment._ The old readings here are
preferable. The LXX, God judgeth me thus, or so heavily...
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_I will teach you by the hand of God._
GOD’S TREATMENT OF WICKED MEN
Looking at Job’s lecture or address, we have to notice two things.
I. Its introduction. The eleventh and twelfth verses may be r...
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_JOB’S REPLY TO THE FRIENDS IN GENERAL_
Job now alone in the field. Zophar, who should have followed Bildad,
and to whom Job had given opportunity to speak, has apparently nothing
to say. Job, therefo...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 27:1
This chapter divides itself into three distinct portions. In the
first, which extends to the end of Job 27:6, Job is engaged in
maintaining, with the utmost possible solemnity (ve...
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Job continued his answer and he said, As God lives, who has taken away
my judgment; and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul; All the while my
breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;...
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Isaiah 1:8; Isaiah 38:12; Isaiah 51:8; Job 8:14; Job 8:15;...
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A moth — Which settleth itself in a garment, but is quickly and
unexpectedly dispossessed of its dwelling, and crushed to death. A
booth — Which the keeper of a garden or vineyard suddenly rears up
in...