_JOB APPEALS FROM MEN TO GOD: THE UNMERCIFUL DEALING OF MEN WITH THE AFFLICTED MAY ASTONISH, BUT NOT DISCOURAGE THE RIGHTEOUS. JOB PROFESSES THAT HIS HOPE IS NOT IN LIFE, BUT IN DEATH._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 17:1. THE GRAVES ARE READY FOR ME_— _They are preparing a grave for me._ See Houbiga... [ Continue Reading ]
ARE THERE NOT MOCKERS WITH ME?— _Were it not so, I have sarcasms enough in store, and I could spend the whole night unmoved at their aggravations._ Heath. See chap. Job 24:25. It is very plain to me, says Peters, that as Job in the fourth verse directs his speech to God, so in the two preceding he p... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT SPEAKETH FLATTERY TO HIS FRIENDS— The Hebrew of this verse literally runs thus: תכלננ בניו ועיני רעים יגיד לחלק _lechelek yaggiid reiim veeinei banaiv tiklenah, He shall reckon friends for a portion or inheritance, and the eyes of his children shall fail; i.e._ with expectation. They may loo... [ Continue Reading ]
HE HATH MADE ME ALSO A BY-WORD— _But they have marked me out for a by-word of the people; nay, I am even a prodigy in their sight._ Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE INNOCENT SHALL STIR UP HIMSELF AGAINST THE HYPOCRITE— _The innocent, to be sure, will exert himself against the profligate._ The whole of this and the next verse is an irony. Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AS FOR YOU ALL, &C.— _Now, therefore, recollect yourselves, all of you, and consider, I pray you: cannot I find one wise man among you?_ Heath and Houbigant. See ch. Job 6:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE THOUGHTS OF MY HEART, &C.— _The gnawings of my heart_ (Job 17:12.) _causeth it to be night instead of day; the light is short in comparison of darkness._ Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF I WAIT, THE GRAVE IS MINE HOUSE— _I have no hope; the grave is my house: I have spread my couch in darkness._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHERE IS NOW MY HOPE?— The repetition of the word _hope_ is extremely elegant in this place. The two verses may be thus connoted; _Where now, pray, can be my hope? my hope indeed! whoever have a mind to see it,_ (Job 17:16.) _they must descend to the confines of the grave, seeing we shall go dow... [ Continue Reading ]