Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 23:17
Because — God did not cut me off by death. Before — These miseries came upon me. Covered — By hiding me in the grave.
Because — God did not cut me off by death. Before — These miseries came upon me. Covered — By hiding me in the grave.
Verse Job 23:17. _BECAUSE I WAS NOT CUT OFF_] "O, why can I not draw darkness over my face? Why may not thick darkness cover my face?" Mr. _Good_. This verse should be read in connection with the prec...
BECAUSE I WAS NOT CUT OFF BEFORE THE DARKNESS - Before these calamities came upon me. Because I was not taken away in the midst of prosperity, and while I was enjoying his smiles and the proofs of his...
CHAPTER S 23-24 JOB'S REPLY _ 1. O that I knew where I may find Him (Job 23:1)_ 2. Trusting yet doubting (Job 23:10) 3. Hath God failed? (Job 24:1) 4. Job's further testimony as to the wicked ...
But God follows His own will and does what He pleases. Therefore Job is afraid. In Job 23:13 a read with Duhm, But he has decreed. Job 23:14 points out that Job's case does not stand alone. Job 23:1...
BECAUSE, &C. See translation below. DARKNESS. Hebrew. _hashak_. See note on Job 3:6. DARKNESS. Hebrew. _'ophel_. See note on Job 3:6....
Job's Reply to the Third Speech of Eliphaz. Job continues to miss any Moral Government of the World by God As before, in the two preceding cycles of debate, Job's mind is too much absorbed in contemp...
Job's innocency though known to God is disregarded by Him. He is unchangeable in His resolution, and He has resolved to destroy him....
This verse reads, For I am not dismayed because of the darkness, Nor because of myself whom thick darkness covereth. The words refer back to the language of Eliphaz, ch. Job 22:11, "or seest thou n...
B. JOB'S PERSISTENT DESIRE OR VALUE OF ARGUING WITH GOD? (Job 23:1, Job 24:25) 1. Job has honored God and obeyed his word, but God will not give him a hearing; He intentionally avoids him. (Job 23:...
_BECAUSE I WAS NOT CUT OFF BEFORE THE DARKNESS, NEITHER HATH HE COVERED THE DARKNESS FROM MY FACE._ Because I was not taken away by death from the evil to come (literally, from before the face of the...
JOB'S SEVENTH SPEECH (JOB 23, 24) Job makes but slight reference to the remarks of Eliphaz, but continues to brood over the mysteries of God's dealings with himself (Job 23), and with mankind (Job 24...
RM 'For I am not dismayed because of the darkness, not because thick darkness covereth my face.' Job means that his sufferings do not distress him so much as the fact that it is God who so mysteriousl...
Job loved God. But Job was still worried. He did not know God’s plans. And Job was afraid of the future. Job did not need to be afraid. God’s plans for Job were wonderful (see Job chapter 42). And G...
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 23 JOB SPEAKS AGAIN JOB WA...
כִּֽי ־לֹ֣א נִ֭צְמַתִּי מִ פְּנֵי ־חֹ֑שֶׁךְ ו
XX. WHERE IS ELOAH? Job 23:1; Job 24:1 Job SPEAKS THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind. "Again today, my plain...
“HE KNOWETH THE WAY THAT I TAKE” Job 23:1 This chapter is threaded by a sublime faith. Job admitted that his complaint seemed rebellious, but God's hand had been heavy on him. From the misunderstand...
In answer to Eliphaz, ob took no notice of the terrible charges made against him. That is postponed to a later speech. Rather, he discussed Eliphai conception of his view of God as being absent from t...
Because I was not cut off before the (l) darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face. (l) He shows the cause for his fear, which is, that he being in trouble sees no end, nor yet kn...
_Face. My afflictions have not yet taken away my life, as might have been expected. (Haydock) --- I am less affected with my miseries, than with the dread of God's presence, ver. 15, 16. (Calmet)_...
REFLECTIONS READER, I cannot beg a greater blessing from our gracious Covenant GOD in CHRIST, either for you or for myself, than that a Spirit of grace may be poured out upon us both, to lead us with...
(13) В¶ But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. (14) For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. (15)...
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...
BECAUSE I WAS NOT CUT OFF BEFORE THE DARKNESS,.... That is, it was amazing to him, and troubled him when he thought of it, that he was not cut off by death, before the darkness of afflictions, or this...
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face. Ver. 17. _Because I was not cut off before the darkness_] _i.e._ The afflictions that now are upon...
_For God maketh my heart soft_ Or, _tender;_ he hath bruised and broken, or melted it, so that I have no spirit, or courage, or strength in me: so this, or the like phrase, frequently signifies. There...
because I was not cut off before the darkness, his calamity alone did not strike him with dumb terror, NEITHER HATH HE COVERED THE DARKNESS FROM MY FACE, he did not shrink back from his own face, thou...
JOB DESPAIRS OF FINDING VINDICATION IN THIS LIFE...
HE LONGS TO LAY HIS CASE BEFORE GOD (vv.1-9) What Eliphaz has said to Job was hardly worth an answer, so that Job practically ignores this and lays before his friends the actual distresses that occu...
13-17 As Job does not once question but that his trials are from the hand of God, and that there is no such thing as chance, how does he account for them? The principle on which he views them is, tha...
BECAUSE I WAS NOT CUT OFF; because God did not cut me off by death. _Before the darkness_, i.e. before these dark and dismal miseries came upon me. Or, _before the face_, or _by reason of the darkness...
Job 23:17 off H6789 (H8738) presence H6440 darkness H2822 hide H3680 (H8765) darkness H652 face H6440 cut
Job is in great physical pain through the sore boils that cover him from head to foot; he is still smarting under all the bereavements and losses he has sustained; and he is somewhat irritated by the...
CONTENTS: Job again answers. He longs for God. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: Those who keep the way of the Lord may comfort themselves with the thought that they are being tried,...
Job 23:3. _Oh that I knew where I might find him._ Job sighs for the favours conferred on certain patriarchs, whom God had met. The living oracle was with Noah after the flood; it was with Abraham in...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 23:1 Job is tired of arguing his case before his friends. In this reply, he ignores most of Eliphaz’s most recent response. Instead, he expresses his desire to stand personally before...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 23:13 Although he has carefully considered his way (vv. Job 23:10), Job knows his future depends on what the Lord APPOINTS to happen (vv....
_JOB’S THIRD REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ Ceases directly to address his friends. His present speech rather a soliloquy. Takes no notice of the charges laid against him by Eliphaz. Laments the want of access to...
EXPOSITION VERSES 1-24:25 Job replies to Eliphaz in a speech of no great length, which, though it occupies two chapters, runs to only forty-two verses. He begins by justifying the vehemence of his co...
And so Job answers him and he says, Every day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning (Job 23:1-2). Really, what's happened to me is even worse than I'm complaining. I'm not eve...
2 Kings 22:20; Isaiah 57:1; Job 15:22; Job 18:18; Job 18:6;...
JOB CHALLENGED BY SATAN Job 1:1 _-Job 23:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We begin today a series of studies on one of the most interesting characters of the Bible. He is Job, the man of patience. We remember...