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Verse Job 27:16. _THOUGH HE HEAP UP SILVER_] Though he amass riches
in the greatest abundance, he shall not enjoy them. Unsanctified
wealth is a curse to its possessor. _Money_, of all earthly
posses...
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THOUGH HE HEAP UP SILVER AS THE DUST - That is, in great quantities -
as plenty as dust; compare 1 Kings 10:27, “And the king made silver
to be in Jerusalem as stones.”
AND PREPARE RAIMENT - Oriental...
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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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THIRD SPEECH OF ZOPHAR. He once more reiterates, in spite of all Job
has said, that the wicked shall perish. He bursts out Let mine enemy
be as God's enemy. I can wish him no worse doom. In Job 27:8 t...
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The "dust" and "clay" or _mire_are images that express extreme
abundance, Zechariah 9:3; 1 Kings 10:27. Great wardrobes of costly
garments are a usual element of Oriental wealth, Genesis 24:53;...
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The utter destruction of the wicked man is exhibited in three turns:
his children and descendants are destined for the sword, and become
the prey of famine and pestilence (Job 27:13); his wealth and
p...
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The disastrous fate of the wicked man at the hand of God.
Job 27:7-10 drew a contrast between the internal state of the mind of
the speaker and that of the sinner; in these verses the contrast is
pur...
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THOUGH HE HEAP UP SILVER, &C.— See Zechariah 9:3 and 2 Kings 5:5....
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B. NO BELIEVERS ANONYMOUS,
I.E., NO UNIVERSAL SALVATION (Job 27:7-23)
TEXT 27:7-23
7 LET MINE ENEMY BE AS THE WICKED,
And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.
8 For what is th...
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_I WILL TEACH YOU BY THE HAND OF GOD: THAT WHICH IS WITH THE ALMIGHTY
WILL I NOT CONCEAL._
These words are contrary to Job's previous sentiments (notes, Job
21:22; Job 24:22). They therefore seem to b...
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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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אִם ־יִצְבֹּ֣ר כֶּ † עָפָ֣ר כָּ֑סֶף
וְ֝...
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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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(11) В¶ I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the
Almighty will I not conceal. (12) Behold, all ye yourselves have seen
it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? (13) This is the por...
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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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THOUGH HE HEAP UP SILVER AS THE DUST,.... Which, as it denotes the
great abundance of it collected together, so it expresses the bias and
disposition of such a man's mind, that he cannot be content wi...
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_Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the
clay;_
Ver. 16. _Though he heap up silver as the dust_] Silver and gold,
what are they else but white and red earth, the guts and gar...
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_Prepare raiment as the clay_ In great abundance. _But the just shall
put it on_ Either because it shall be given to him by the magistrate,
to recompense him for those injuries which he had received f...
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Though he heap up silver as the dust, in immeasurable quantities, AND
PREPARE RAIMENT, fine garments, AS THE CLAY, that they are as
numerous, as common, as the mud of the streets;...
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Belief in the Final Destruction of the Ungodly....
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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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11-23 Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of
wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job
considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their
death...
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i.e. In great abundance....
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Job 27:16 up H6651 (H8799) silver H3701 dust H6083 up H3559 (H8686)
clothing H4403 clay H2563
heap up -...
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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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_Though he heap up silver as the dust._
HOARDING
I. The wicked hoarding their wealth. They “heap up silver as the
dust.” As a rule, this is the grand work of wicked men on the earth.
On it they conc...
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_I will teach you by the hand of God._
GOD’S TREATMENT OF WICKED MEN
Looking at Job’s lecture or address, we have to notice two things.
I. Its introduction. The eleventh and twelfth verses may be r...
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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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1 Kings 10:27; Habakkuk 2:6; James 5:2; Job 22:24; Matthew 6:19;...
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As clay — In great abundance....