Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 27:2
Who — Though he knows my integrity, yet doth not plead my cause against my friends.
Who — Though he knows my integrity, yet doth not plead my cause against my friends.
Verse Job 27:2. WHO _HATH TAKEN AWAY MY JUDGMENT_] Who has _turned aside_ _my cause_, and has not permitted it to come to a hearing, where I might have justice done to me, but has abandoned me to the...
AS GOD LIVETH - A form of solemn adjuration, or an oath by the living God. “As certainly as God lives.” It is the form by which God himself often swears; see Ezekiel 14:16; Ezekiel 33:11, and is often...
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...
Continuation of Job's reply to Bildad. Job 27:1 must be removed as a gloss. Job swears by God that he (in full possession of his powers, Job 27:3) tells the truth (Job 27:4). God forbid that he should...
GOD. Heb El. App-4. THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew Shaddai. App-4. MY SOUL. me. Hebrew. _nephesh_. App-13....
_my judgment_ As above, MY RIGHT. God has taken this away by afflicting Job unjustly. The state of Job's mind here is altogether the same as before. He still cleaves to God and swears by His name, and...
Job with the solemnity of an oath by God declares that he speaks in sincerity when affirming his innocence. Till he die he will not admit his guilt; his conscience reproaches him for no part of his li...
WHO HATH TAKEN AWAY MY JUDGMENT— _Who hath afflicted me so severely, without any notorious blame on my part._ Schultens....
IV. THE LONELINESS AND ISOLATION OF JOB (Job 27:1, Job 31:40) A. THE AFFIRMATION OF INNOCENCE (Job 27:1-6) TEXT 27:1-6 27 AND JOB AGAIN TOOK UP HIS PARABLE AND SAID, 2 As God liveth, who hath taken...
_AS GOD LIVETH, WHO HATH TAKEN AWAY MY JUDGMENT; AND THE ALMIGHTY, WHO HATH VEXED MY SOUL;_ As God liveth - (1 Samuel 20:3). AS GOD LIVETH - (1 Samuel 20:3). TAKEN AWAY ... JUDGMENT - words unconsci...
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...
MY JUDGMENT] RV 'my right.' God has not yet vindicated Job's uprightness, on which his sufferings throw doubt. 3A. RV 'For my life is yet whole in me.' The v. is a parenthesis, explaining that Job is...
Job had suffered terrible troubles. And Job supposed that God caused these troubles. But Job still trusted God....
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...
AS GOD LIVETH, WHO HATH TAKEN AWAY MY JUDGMENT. — Job’s faith leads him to see that, though there may be no explanation for his sufferings, yet they are laid upon him by God for purposes of His own, w...
חַי ־אֵ֭ל הֵסִ֣יר מִשְׁפָּטִ֑י וְ֝ שַׁדַּ֗י ה
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...
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...
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...
[As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my (a) judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul; (a) He has so sore afflicted me that men cannot judge my uprightness; for they judge only by outwar...
Judgment. Chaldean, "my rule of judging." Septuagint, "Live the Lord, who hath judged me thus." Symmachus, "hath despised my judgment." The expression seems very harsh, and may be one of those which G...
(2) As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul; (3) All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; (4) My lips shall not speak...
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...
[AS] GOD LIVETH,.... Which is an oath, as Jarchi observes, and is a form of one frequently used, see 2 Samuel 2:27; and is used by God himself, who, because he can swear by no greater, swears by himse...
Job 27:2 [As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul; Ver. 2. _As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment_] Job well knew the nature and end of...
_Job continued his parable_ His grave and weighty discourse. _As God liveth_ He confirms the truth of his expressions by an oath, because he found them very backward to believe what he professed. _Who...
JOB'S AGAIN PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE...
As God liveth, a solemn oath intended to impress his hearers with the importance of his statements, WHO HATH TAKEN AWAY MY JUDGMENT, who refused to give Job right in this case, who would not declare h...
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...
VEXED MY SOUL: _ Heb._ made my soul bitter...
"AS GOD LIVES": This is an oath, "thus asserting that what he was about to affirm was as certain as God's existence" _(Zuck p. 119)._ Yet Job must swear by. God that he claims that taken away his righ...
1-6 Job's friends now suffered him to speak, and he proceeded in a grave and useful manner. Job had confidence in the goodness both of his cause and of his God; and cheerfully committed his cause to h...
He confirms the truth and sincerity of his expressions by an oath, because he found them very hard to believe all his professions. MY JUDGMENT, or _my right_, or _my cause_, i.e. who, though he knows...
Job 27:2 God H410 lives H2416 away H5493 (H8689) justice H4941 Almighty H7706 made H4843 soul H5315 bitter...
VEXED Hebrew, made my soul bitter....
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...
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...
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...
_The Almighty hath vexed my soul._ A VEXED SOUL COMFORTED The word “who” was put into this verse by the translators, but it is not wanted; it is better as I have read it to you, “The Almighty hath ve...
_Moreover Job continued his parable._ POINTS IN JOB’S PARABLE I. A solemn asseveration. “As God liveth.” The words imply a belief-- 1. In the reality of the Divine existence. Whilst some deny this...
_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...
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...
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;...
1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:15; 1 Samuel 14:39; 1 Samuel 14:45;...