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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Job 27 - Introduction

* Job protests his sincerity. (1-6) The hypocrite is without hope. (7-10) The miserable end of the wicked. (11-23)

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See also Job 27 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 25-27. offer a difficult critical problem. The phenomena which excite attention are these: (_a_) Bildad's speech is unusually short; (_b_) Job's reply contains a section (Job 26:5) very like Bilda...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job protests his innocence The third speaker, Zophar, fails to come forward; and Job, after a pause, resumes his discourse. This discourse is necessary in order to give this third cycle of speeches t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TODAY'S ENGLISH VERSION 1-2 I swear by the living Almighty God, who refuses me justice and makes my life bitter 3 as long as God gives me breath 4 my lips will never say anything evil, and my tong...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 Uz (a-9) See Lamentations 4:21 . perfect (b-18) Complete, lacking nothing; cf. 2 Samuel 22:24 ....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO JOB 27 Though Job's friends were become silent, and dropped the controversy with him, he still continued his discourse in this and the four following Chapter s; in which he asserts hi...

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

    _A.M. 2484. B.C. 1520._ Job protests his integrity, Job 27:1; and his dread of hypocrisy, Job 27:7. Shows the miserable end of the wicked, notwithstanding their long prosperity, Job 27:11....

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