Job 17:1
RV 'My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is _ready_ for me.' The v. is connected with Job 16:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is _ready_ for me.' The v. is connected with Job 16:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the present life.... [ Continue Reading ]
Job rejects the delusive hopes of restoration held out by the friends.... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; who is there that will strike hands with me?' Job begs that God will promise to testify to his innocence after he is dead. There is no one else who will do this. To 'strike hands' was the Hebrew sign of becoming surety for another.... [ Continue Reading ]
The friends are too prejudiced against Job to speak on his behalf. NOT EXALT THEM] i.e. not let their views triumph.... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'He that denounceth his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his children shall fail.'... [ Continue Reading ]
HE HATH MADE ME] Render, 'I am made.' AND AFORETIME, etc.] RV 'And I am become an open abhorring.' 8, 9. The upright, astonished at Job's calamities, will rise against the ungodly, while the righteous holds on his way with increasing strength. This does not fit in well with Job's attitude, so that... [ Continue Reading ]
Job invites the friends to renew their arguments, although he expects nothing worth hearing from them. 11, 12. THE THOUGHTS, etc.] Render, perhaps,' The thoughts of my heart put night for day. Darkness is nearer than light.' 13-16. Job declares that it is vain to look for any restoration or justif... [ Continue Reading ]
RM 'If I hope, Sheol is mine house.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY] RV 'it' (i.e. his hope). BARS OF THE PIT] the gates of the world of the dead: cp. Isaiah 38:10. WHEN, etc.] RV 'when once there is rest in the dust.' Job moves forward in this speech to the great thought that after he is dead, God will clear his reputation of the stain placed upon it by his di... [ Continue Reading ]