Then Job answered the LORD, and said, Ver. 1. _Then Job answered the Lord, and said_] After that he had been so plainly and plentifully convinced by Almighty God, 1. That he was far short of him in eternity, wisdom, power, providence, &c.; 2. That he could not stand before behemoth and leviathan, t... [ Continue Reading ]
I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no thought can be withholden from thee. Ver. 2. _I know that thou canst do everything_] God's power is either absolute or actual. By the former he can do everything, make a world, and unmake it in an instant; of stones raise up children to Abraham... [ 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. Ver. 3. _Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge?_] _Quis iste est, inquis._ Who is he, saith thou, Job 38:2, that hideth counsel, &c., so Tremel... [ Continue Reading ]
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Ver. 4. _Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak_] We have had his confession; follow now his petition here, his humiliation and reformation, Job 42:6. These are the parts and properties of true repentance, that... [ Continue Reading ]
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Ver. 5. _I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear_] God hath ordained, that as death entered into the world at first by the ear, poisoned by that old man slayer, Genesis 3:14,19, so life shall enter into the soul by... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes. Ver. 6. _Wherefore I abhor myself_] _Aspernor illa,_ so Tremellius. I utterly dislike those my former base and bald conceits of thee, my hard and unsavoury speeches, mine impatient and imprudent carriages. _Horreo quicquid de meo est, ut meu... [ 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]. Ver. 7. _And it was so, that after the Lord h... [ 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... [ 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. Ver. 9. _So Eliphaz the Temanite, &c._] Here was _resipiscentia ex fide constans,_ saith Brentius, the repentance of faith, the obedience also o... [ 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. Ver. 10. _And the Lord turned again the captivity of Job_] He took him out of Satan's clutches, who had hitherto held him prisoner, as it were, in the bands of poverty, s... [ 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, and... [ 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. Ver. 12. _So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job_] According to Bildad's prophecy, Job 8:7, and St James's useful... [ Continue Reading ]
He had also seven sons and three daughters. Ver. 13. _He had also seven sons and three daughters_] Whose perfections sweetened the sorrow which the loss of the other had caused him. - _Sic uno avulso non deficit alter Aureus_ (Virg.). Ten children he had in heaven, and ten on earth. _See Trapp on... [ 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. Ver. 14. _And he called the name of the first, Jemima_] That is, day bright, from her oriental and glistering beauty; _q.d._ fair as the day (Diurno). Song of Solomon 6:10, the C... [ 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. Ver. 15. _And in all the land there were no women found so fair, &c._] Beauty, though but a _bonum_ fragile, and one of the gifts of God's left hand, Proverbs 3:16... [ Continue Reading ]
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations. Ver. 16. _After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, &c._] And this was not the least part of his happiness. Length of days is a piece of Wisdom's wages, Proverbs 3:16. Pliny tells... [ Continue Reading ]
So Job died, [being] old and full of days. Ver. 17. _So Job died, being old and full of days_] How long he lived we know not. The Rabbis say, about two hundred years, which was longer than either Abraham or Isaac lived; of both whom it is likewise said, that they were _saturi dierum,_ sated with th... [ Continue Reading ]