Job 31:1
I made — So far have I been from any gross wickedness, that I have abstained from the least occasions and appearances of evil.... [ Continue Reading ]
I made — So far have I been from any gross wickedness, that I have abstained from the least occasions and appearances of evil.... [ Continue Reading ]
For — What recompence may be expected from God for those who do otherwise. Above — How secretly soever unchaste persons carry the matter, so that men cannot reprove them, yet there is one who stands upon an higher place, whence he seeth in what manner they act.... [ Continue Reading ]
Walked — Dealt with men. Vanity — With lying, or falsehood. Deceit — If when I had an opportunity of enriching myself, by wronging others, I have readily and greedily complied with It.... [ Continue Reading ]
Let me — I desire nothing more than to have my heart and life weighed in just balances, and searched out by the all — seeing God. That God — Or, and he will know; (upon search he will find out: which is spoken of God after the manner of men:) Mine integrity — So this is an appeal to God to be witnes... [ Continue Reading ]
Heart — If I have let my heart loose to covet forbidden things, which mine eyes have seen: commonly sin enters by the eye into the heart. A blot — Any unjust gain.... [ Continue Reading ]
Increase — All my plants, and fruits, and improvements.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then — Not as if Job desired this; but that if God should give up his wife to such wickedness, he should acknowledge his justice in it.... [ Continue Reading ]
This — Adultery. It is — Heb. an iniquity of the judges; which belongs to them to take cognizance of, and to punish, even with death; and that not only by the law of Moses, but even by the law of nature, as appears from the known laws and customs of the Heathen nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
Destruction — Lust is a fire in the soul; it consumes all that is good there, the convictions, the comforts; and lays the conscience waste. It consumes the body, consumes the substance, roots out all the increase. It kindles the fire of God's wrath, which if not quenched by the blood of Christ, will... [ Continue Reading ]
If I — Denied them what they desired of me. To fail — With tedious expectation of my justice or charity. Job is most large upon this head, because in this matter Eliphaz had most particularly accused him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Youth — As soon as I was capable of managing mine own affairs. With me — Under my care. A father — With all the diligence and tenderness of a father. Her — The widow mentioned Job 31:16. From — From my tender years; ever since I was capable of discerning good and evil.... [ Continue Reading ]
Perish — When it was in my power to help them.... [ Continue Reading ]
When — When I saw I could influence the judges to do what I pleased.... [ Continue Reading ]
For — I stood in awe of God and of his judgments. I could not — I knew myself unable either to oppose his power, or to bear his wrath. Even good men have need to restrain themselves from sin, with the fear of Destruction from God. Even when salvation from God is a comfort to us, yet destruction from... [ Continue Reading ]
I — This place speaks of the worship of the host of heaven, and especially of the sun and moon, the most eminent and glorious of that number, which was the most ancient kind of idolatry, and most frequent in the eastern countries. Shined — In its full strength and glory.... [ Continue Reading ]
Kissed — In token of worship, whereof this was a sign.... [ Continue Reading ]
The judge — The civil magistrate; who being advanced and protected by God, is obliged to maintain and vindicate his honour, and consequently to punish idolatry. Denied God — Not directly but by consequence, because this was to rob God of his prerogative, by giving to the creature, that worship which... [ Continue Reading ]
Lift up — Heb. stirred up myself to rejoice and insult over his misery.... [ Continue Reading ]
If — My domesticks and familiar friends. His flesh — This is farther confirmation of Job's charitable disposition to his enemy. Although all who were daily conversant with him, and were witnesses of his and their carriage, were so zealous in Job's quarrel, that they protested they could eat their fl... [ Continue Reading ]
As Adam — As Adam did in Paradise.... [ Continue Reading ]
Did I fear — No: all that knew Job knew him to be a man of resolution, that boldly appeared, spoke and acted, in defence of religion and justice. He durst not keep silence, or stay within, when called to speak or act for God. He was not deterred by the number, or quality, or insults of the injurious... [ Continue Reading ]
Had written — Had given me his charge written in a book or paper, as the manner was in judicial proceedings. This shews that Job did not live, before letters were in use. And undoubtedly the first letters were those wrote on the two tables, by the finger of God. He wishes, his friends, who charged h... [ Continue Reading ]
Take it — As a trophy or badge of honour.... [ Continue Reading ]
Him — My judge, or adversary. My steps — The whole course of my life. A prince — With undaunted courage and confidence.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cry — Because I have gotten it by fraud or violence.... [ Continue Reading ]
Without money — Either without paying the price for the land, or by defrauding my workmen of their wages. Life — Killing them that I might have undisturbed possession of it, as Ahab did Naboth.... [ Continue Reading ]