_ELIPHAZ ASSERTS, THAT JOB'S JUSTIFICATION OF HIMSELF DOTH NOT PLEASE
GOD, AND THAT HE IS SURROUNDED WITH SNARES, BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN GUILTY
OF MANY INIQUITIES. HE EXHORTS HIM TO REPENTANCE, WITH PROMISES OF
MERCY._
_Before Christ 1645._
_JOB 22:1. THEN ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE ANSWERED_— Eliphaz here... [ Continue Reading ]
IS IT ANY PLEASURE? &C.— _Is it any advantage._ Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL HE REPROVE THEE— _Will he dispute with thee concerning thy
religion?_ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THOU HAST TAKEN A PLEDGE— See chap. Job 24:7. Who that sees this
ranked among the greatest enormities, says Bishop Warbuton, but will
reflect that it must have been written by one studied in the law of
Moses; which says, _If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to
pledge, thou shalt deliver... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AS FOR THE MIGHTY MAN— _But if any one had sown a field for
himself, being in thy favour, he received the fruit of it._ Houbigant,
in part after the Syriac. Heath renders it, _but as for the mighty
man, the whole land was for him; and thy particular favourite he might
dwell in it._ The meaning o... [ Continue Reading ]
OR DARKNESS— _Thou beholdest darkness, and not light._ Houbigant.
Heath renders it, _Or is it dark, that thou canst not see?_ Observing
that the path of the wicked man is here represented as covered with
darkness, so that he cannot see the snares which are laid for him, but
falls into them: in antit... [ Continue Reading ]
IS NOT GOD IN THE HEIGHT OF HEAVEN?— _Is not God high above the
heavens? Yea, see the summit of the stars how high they are._ This
verse is the answer which he supposes Job to make; the consequences of
which he draws out at large in the following verses. He takes his
handle from Job 22:16 of the for... [ Continue Reading ]
HAST THOU MARKED? &C.— As the universal deluge was a most signal and
memorable instance of God's displeasure against wickedness and wicked
men, Eliphaz takes occasion to enlarge upon it for five or six verses
together, as a proper lesson (so he thought it) for his friend; and
then closes it with the... [ Continue Reading ]
ACQUAINT NOW THYSELF, &C.— _Humble thyself, I pray thee, before him,
and make restitution._ Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
RECEIVE, I PRAY THEE, &C.— This phrase, says Bishop Warburton, was
taken from the verbal delivery of the Jewish law from Mount Sinai. He
adds, "The rabbins were so sensible of the expressive peculiarity of
this phrase, that they say the law of Moses is here spoken of by a
kind of prophetic anticipat... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SHALT THOU LAY UP GOLD, &C.— _And count the fine gold as dust,
and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks:_ Job 22:25. _For,
the Almighty shall be thy fine gold,_ &c. Heath; who observes, that
Grotius has given a right exposition of the 24th verse: _Value not the
gold more than dust, nor... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN MEN ARE CAST DOWN, &C.— _For whoever humbleth himself shall be
extolled and had in glory; he that hath lowly eyes shall be exalted:_
Job 22:30. _Whoever is innocent shall be safe, and delivered by the
purity of his hands._ Houbigant, who understands the word אי _ai,_
with Grotius, to be an Arab... [ Continue Reading ]