Job 27 - Introduction
_A.M. 2484. B.C. 1520._ Job protests his integrity, Job 27:1; and his dread of hypocrisy, Job 27:7. Shows the miserable end of the wicked, notwithstanding their long prosperity, Job 27:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
_A.M. 2484. B.C. 1520._ Job protests his integrity, Job 27:1; and his dread of hypocrisy, Job 27:7. Shows the miserable end of the wicked, notwithstanding their long prosperity, Job 27:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 hath taken away my judgment_ Who, though he knows my integrity, yet does not plead my cause against... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 thought of it, and will sooner die than confess the guilt which you charge upon me. _My righteousness I... [ Continue Reading ]
_Let mine enemy be as the wicked_ I am so far from loving and practising wickedness, whereof you accuse me, that I abhor the thoughts of it; and if I might and should wish to be revenged of mine enemy, I could wish him no greater mischief than to be a wicked man. This does not imply that we may lawf... [ Continue Reading ]
_What is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained?_ There is no reason why I should envy or desire the portion of wicked men: although they ofttimes prosper in the world, and seem to be great gainers; yet death, which hasteneth to all men, and to me especially, will show that they are far gr... [ Continue Reading ]
_Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh?_ When any calamity comes upon him; or, when his conscience accuses him, and his guilt flies in his face? Will God pay any regard to the cries of one who regarded him so little?... [ Continue Reading ]
_Will he delight himself in the Almighty?_ When he has nothing else to delight in? No: his delight is in the things of the world, which now sink under him. _Will he always call upon God?_ Will he have the confidence to pray to God, and expect any comfort from him? Nay, will he not rather despond in... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will teach you by the hand of God_ That is, by God's help and inspiration; or, by such arguments as are irresistible. The words, however, may be rendered, _concerning the hand of God;_ that is, concerning his counsel and providence in governing the world, or the manner of his dealing with men, an... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye yourselves have seen it_ I speak no false or strange things: but what is known and confirmed by your own experience, and that of others. _Why then are ye thus altogether vain?_ In maintaining such a foolish and false opinion against your own knowledge and experience? Why do you so obstinately d... [ Continue Reading ]
_This is the portion of a wicked man_ Namely, that which is mentioned in the following verses; _with God_ Either laid up with God, namely, in his counsel and appointment; or, which he shall have from God, as the next words explain it; _and the heritage of oppressors_ Who are mighty, fierce, terrible... [ Continue Reading ]
_It is for the sword_ That they may be cut off by the sword, either of war or of justice: _and his offspring_, &c. Shall be starved, or shall want necessaries. _Those that remain of him_ Who survive that sword and famine; _shall be buried in death_ “Shall be reduced to so great a degree of misery,”... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 from the oppressor; or because the right of it is, in some other way, transferred upon him by divine... [ Continue Reading ]
_The rich man shall lie down_ In death; _but he shall not be gathered_ Namely, in burial, as this word יאס Š, _jeaseph_, is often used. Instead of that honourable interment with his fathers, which he expected, his carcass shall lie like dung upon the earth. _He openeth_, or, _one openeth his eyes, a... [ Continue Reading ]
_Terrors take hold on him_ From the sense of approaching death or judgment. _As waters_ As violently and irresistibly as a river breaking its banks, or a deluge of waters bears down all before it. _A tempest stealeth_, &c. God's wrath cometh upon him like a tempest, and withal unexpectedly like a th... [ Continue Reading ]
_The east wind_ Some terrible judgment, fitly compared to the east wind, which, in those parts, was most vehement, furious, pestilential, and destructive; _carrieth him away Out of his place_, as it follows; out of his stately mansion, where he expected to dwell for ever; whence he shall be carried,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Men_ Who shall see and observe these things; _shall clap their hands at him_ In token of their joy, at the removal of such a public pest and tyrant; and by way of astonishment, as also in contempt and scorn; all which this action signifies in Scripture. _And shall hiss him out of his place _ In tok... [ Continue Reading ]