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Verse Job 27:5. _GOD FORBID_] חלילה לי _chalilah lli, far be
it from me,_ _that I should justify you _- that I should now, by any
kind of acknowledgment of wickedness or hypocrisy justify your harsh...
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GOD FORBID - לי חלילה _châlı̂ylâh_ _lı̂y_. “Far be it
from me.” Literally, “Profane be it to me;” that is, I should
regard it as unholy and profane; I cannot do it.
THAT I SHOULD JUSTIFY YOU - That...
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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...
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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...
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GOD FORBID. Far be it from me. Figure of speech _Deists._ App-6.
DIE. expire....
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GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD JUSTIFY YOU— See the note on chap. Job 2:9.
This and the three following verses afford us a proof of Job's faith,
and contain the noble plea that he makes for himself against...
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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...
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_GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD JUSTIFY YOU: TILL I DIE I WILL NOT REMOVE
MINE INTEGRITY FROM ME._
Justify you - approve of your views.
MINE INTEGRITY - which you deny, on account of my misfortunes....
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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...
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I SHOULD JUSTIFY YOU] i.e. by admitting their contention that he was
suffering for his sins.
6B. RM 'My heart doth not reproach _me_ for any of my days.'
7-23. The fate of the wicked. Here it would...
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Job was sure that he was innocent. He said that he would continue to
argue this for the rest of his life.
Later, we see that Job’s attitude was wrong. Job should have
insisted that God was right. But...
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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...
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GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD JUSTIFY YOU. — To admit the wickedness with
which his friends charged him would have been to justify them — to
say that they were right and he was wrong. This he resolves not...
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חָלִ֣ילָה לִּי֮ אִם ־אַצְדִּ֪יק
אֶ֫תְכֶ֥ם עַד...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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God forbid that I should (c) justify you: till I die I will not remove
mine (d) integrity from me.
(c) Which condemns me as a wicked man, because the hand of God is on
me.
(d) I will not confess tha...
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_Till. Never will I abandon this path, (Haydock) nor will I yield to
your reasons, (Calmet) or cease to defend myself. (Menochius) --- It
would have been contrary to justice and charity, (Haydock) as...
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(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...
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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...
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GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD JUSTIFY YOU,.... Not but that he counted them
righteous and good men God-ward; he did not take upon him to judge
their state, and to justify or condemn them with respect to th...
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God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove
mine integrity from me.
Ver. 5. _God forbid that I should justify you_] _sc._ By saying as
you say; viz. that I am a hypocrite, and...
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_God forbid that I should justify you_ In your opinion concerning me,
and censure of me; _till I die_, &c. Never hope that I will yield to
your judgment, which I know to be false: no, I abhor the thou...
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God forbid that I should justify you, that is, Far be it from me to
declare you to be right; TILL I DIE I WILL NOT REMOVE MINE INTEGRITY
FROM ME, he would not cease to assert his innocence....
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JOB'S AGAIN PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE...
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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...
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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...
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THAT I SHOULD JUSTIFY YOU, i.e. your opinion and censure concerning
me, as one convicted to be impious or hypocritical, by God's unusual
and severe dealing with me. I WILL NOT REMOVE, to wit, declarat...
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Job 27:5 it H2486 right H6663 (H8686) die H1478 (H8799) away H5493
(H8686) integrity H8538
justify -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me._
MORAL COURAGE
It is the aim of all men to secure happiness. As to the course they
think best adapted to secure this they differ most widely, and...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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;...
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2 Corinthians 1:12; Deuteronomy 25:1; Galatians 2:11; Job 13:15; Job