Job 42:1
_JOB HUMBLETH HIMSELF BEFORE GOD, WHO, PREFERRING JOB'S CAUSE, ACCEPTETH HIM, AND COMMANDS HIS FRIENDS TO MAKE DUE SUBMISSION. HE BLESSES THE LATTER END OF JOB, DOUBLING ALL HIS FORTUNES._ _Before Christ 1645._... [ Continue Reading ]
_JOB HUMBLETH HIMSELF BEFORE GOD, WHO, PREFERRING JOB'S CAUSE, ACCEPTETH HIM, AND COMMANDS HIS FRIENDS TO MAKE DUE SUBMISSION. HE BLESSES THE LATTER END OF JOB, DOUBLING ALL HIS FORTUNES._ _Before Christ 1645._... [ Continue Reading ]
I KNOW THAT THOU CANST DO EVERY THING— _I know that thou art able to do every thing, and that wisdom cannot be attained without thee._ Heath. _And that there is no design which thou canst not accomplish._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO IS HE THAT HIDETH COUNSEL, &C.— _Who is he that pretends to disclose the wisdom which is incomprehensible? Surely I spoke what I did not understand; wonders beyond my reach, which I could not know._ Heath. The recollection of Job in this and the two following verses is inimitably fine, and begin... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE HEARD OF THEE, &C.— It is plain that here is same privilege intended, which Job had never enjoyed before, and which he calls a sight of God. He had heard of him by the _hearing of the ear,_ or the tradition delivered down from his forefathers: but he had now a clear and sensible perception of... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE I ABHOR MYSELF— _Wherefore I am ready to drop into dissolution._ Heath. See the note on chap. Job 3:24. As a supplement to which, we add here, that the Chaldee paraphrast had such a sense of the greatness of Job's affliction, with respect to the loss of his children, that he thinks of it s... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF ME, &C.— Mr. Peters has proved, beyond contradiction, that this is properly translated, _ye have not spoken of me that which is right._ See also Job 42:8 in which there is a repetition of the same declaration in express terms by God himself, that Eliphaz and his companions... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD TURNED THE CAPTIVITY OF JOB— This phrase of _turning,_ or _causing to return the captivity,_ seems to have been overlooked, at least not thoroughly considered by the greater part of the commentators; some, however, have seen the whole force of the expression. The restitution was probably af... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN CAME THERE UNTO HIM ALL HIS BRETHREN, &C.— Job being restored to his former health and possessions, the author presents us with a striking view of human friendship. His _brethren,_ who in the time of his affliction kept at a distance from him; his kinsfolks, who ceased to know him; his familiar... [ Continue Reading ]
HE CALLED THE NAME OF THE FIRST JEMIMA— Job, being restored to his family and friends, is afterwards blessed with a numerous issue, _seven sons and three daughters._ Of the former nothing remarkable is recorded; but the names of the daughters are preserved, and they are said to have been the most be... [ Continue Reading ]
IN ALL THE LAND WERE NO WOMEN FOUND SO FAIR— Bishop Warburton, upon his allegorical plan, supposes, that as Job's wife was to represent the idolatrous wives, so the daughters in the allegory are to stand for the daughters of Israel; and to this end are described as beauties; nay, and fortunes too, f... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THIS JOB LIVED AN HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS— Mr. Le Clerc has urged, as an argument that this book is parabolical, that Job, according to this account, must have lived above two hundred years, and that this length of life will suit no time assigned for Job's existence. If, with Grotius, we say h... [ Continue Reading ]