Job 42:1-6. Job's reply to the Lord's Second Address from the Storm The Lord's words make Job feel more deeply than before that greatness which belongs to God alone, and with deep compunction he retracts his past words and repents in dust and ashes.... [ Continue Reading ]
Job 40:6 to Job 42:6. The Lord's Second Answer to Job out of the Storm Shall Man charge God with unrighteousness in His Rule of the World? All that the first speech of the Lord touched upon was the presumption of a mortal man desiring to contend with the Almighty. The display from Creation of that... [ Continue Reading ]
_do every thing_ Or, _canst do all_. _no thought can be withholden_ That is, NO PURPOSE. The meaning is that there is no purpose which the Almighty cannot carry out. Though literally the words seem merely an acknowledgement of power, they are also an admission of wisdom, the plans or purposes of whi... [ Continue Reading ]
_who is he that hideth_ That is, that _obscures_counsel. The words of the Almighty (ch. Job 38:2) echo through Job's mind, and he repeats them, speaking of himself. The rest of the verse expands the idea of "obscuring counsel," or states its consequence. As one that obscured counsel Job had uttered... [ Continue Reading ]
_hear, I beseech thee_ Or, _hear now_, and I will speak. The words are not an entreaty on the part of Job that the Almighty would further instruct him; they are a repetition of the words of the Lord (ch. Job 38:3; Job 40:7). The verse is closely connected with Job 42:5, which suggests under what fee... [ Continue Reading ]
_I have heard_ Rather perhaps, I HAD heard. Job's former knowledge of God, though he had prided himself upon it (ch. 12 13), seems to him now only such a knowledge as one gets by hearsay, confused and defective. His present knowledge is that of eyesight, immediate and full (Isaiah 52:8).... [ Continue Reading ]
The effect of this deeper knowledge of God upon Job's heart. _I abhor myself_ The word _myself_is not expressed; what has to be supplied as the object of "abhor" is rather _it_, that is, my former language and demeanour. The word means, I _retract_, or _repudiate_.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the thing which is right_ The Lord blames the three friends for not speaking that which was right concerning _Him_, not concerning Job; He also commends Job for speaking what was right concerning Him. It is obvious that the three friends spoke many just and profound things concerning God, and that... [ Continue Reading ]
Job 42:7-17. Job, having humbled himself before God, is restored to a prosperity two-fold that which he enjoyed before 7 9. Job is commanded to intercede for his three friends lest Jehovah should visit their folly upon them, because they spoke not that which was right concerning Him.... [ Continue Reading ]
_turned the captivity_ The metaphorical use of the phrase would readily arise in a state of society like that in the East. The expression means that Job's afflictions were removed and his prosperity restored.... [ Continue Reading ]
Job is restored to a prosperity double that which he formerly enjoyed; his former friends gather around him; he is again blessed with children; and dies, old and full of days.... [ Continue Reading ]
Comp. Job's sorrowful lamentations over the alienation of all his friends and acquaintances, ch. Job 19:13 _seq_. _piece of money_ The Heb. is _Kesita_, probably an uncoined piece of silver, of a certain weight, Genesis 33:19; Joshua 24:32.... [ Continue Reading ]
The exact doubling of Job's former possessions shews that we are not reading literal history here.... [ Continue Reading ]
The former number of Job's children is restored to him. The name _Jemima_probably means _dove_, comp. Song of Solomon 6:9; Song of Solomon 5:2; _Kezia_is _cassia_, the aromatic spice, Psalms 45:8; Song of Solomon 1:3; and _Kerenhappúch_means _horn_(or box) _of eye-paint, puch_being the paint or powd... [ Continue Reading ]
_inheritance among their brethren_ The Hebrew practice was that the daughters inherited only when there was no son, Numbers 27:1 _seq_. The disposition of his property made by Job would retain the sisters in the midst of their brethren even after marriage, and allow the affectionate relations existi... [ Continue Reading ]
Job dies, old and full of days. "Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy" (James 5:11).... [ Continue Reading ]