Both good and evil are from God's hand, and must be taken in the same spirit. The words of Job are in notable contrast to those of his wife. With his lips] The reader must not be misled into thinking that the author means to suggest that Job nursed in his heart a rebellion he would not utter with his lips.
Verse Job 2:10. _THOU SPEAKEST AS ONE OF THE FOOLISH_] Thou speakest like an infidel; like one who has no knowledge of God, of religion, or of a future state. The Targum, who calls this woman _Dinah...
AS ONE OF THE FOOLISH WOMEN SPEAKETH - The word here rendered “foolish” נבל _nâbâl_ from נבל _nâbêl_, means properly stupid or foolish, and then wicked, abandoned, impious - the idea of “sin” and...
CHAPTER 2:1-10 _ 1. Jehovah's second challenge and Satan's answer (Job 2:1)_ 2. Job stricken (Job 2:7) 3. Job's wife, Job's answer and victory (Job 2:9) Job 2
THE NARRATIVE OF THE SECOND CONVERSATION BETWEEN YAHWEH AND THE SATAN AND ITS ISSUES. Again the heavenly council comes together, and Yahweh reproaches the Satan with instigating Him to bring undeserve...
WHAT? SHALL WE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. THE HAND. from. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ (with Art.). the [true] God. App-4. THIS. these calamit...
_one of the foolish women_ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. "Wise" is less an intellectual than a moral term; and its opposite "foolish" means godless, Psalms 14:1. To "work folly in I...
DOST THOU STILL RETAIN THINE INTEGRITY? &C.— The word תם _tam,_ is the same in chap. Job 27:5 and there rendered _integrity. God forbid that I should justify you,_ says Job, in answer to the uncharita...
7. Job refuses to curse God. (Job 2:9-10) TEXT 2:9, 10 (9) THEN SAID HIS WIFE UNTO HIM, DOST THOU STILL HOLD FAST THINE INTEGRITY? RENOUNCE GOD, AND DIE. (10) BUT HE SAID UNTO HER, THOU SPEAKEST AS...
_BUT HE SAID UNTO HER, THOU SPEAKEST AS ONE OF THE FOOLISH WOMEN SPEAKETH. WHAT? SHALL WE RECEIVE GOOD AT THE HAND OF GOD, AND SHALL WE NOT RECEIVE EVIL? IN ALL THIS DID NOT JOB SIN WITH HIS LIPS._ T...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 2 SATAN OPPOSES JOB AGAIN...
Job meant ‘evil’ by the word ‘foolish’. Only an evil person should say such things. Job thought that God had done evil things to Job. Job thought that this was fair. He knew that God did many good th...
SHALL WE RECEIVE GOOD...? — The words were fuller than even Job thought; for merely to receive evil as from _God’s_ hands is to transmute its character altogether, for then even calamities become bles...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלֶ֗יהָ כְּ דַבֵּ֞ר אַחַ֤ת הַ
V. THE DILEMMA OF FAITH Job 2:1 As the drama proceeds to unfold the conflict between Divine grace in the human soul and those chaotic influences which hold the mind in doubt or drag it back into den...
“AMONG THE ASHES” Job 2:1 It gives God deep pleasure when He can point to one of His servants who has borne fiery trial with unwavering patience and faith. The adversary comes back from his restless,...
Again the solemn council met, and again Satan was present. The Most High uttered the same estimate of His servant as before, adding thereto a declaration of Job's victory in the conflict which had tak...
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not (n) receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his (o) li...
_Foolish. The same word often means impious, (chap. i. 22.) and ignorant, (Haydock) or "delirous." (Aquila) (Psalm xiii. 1.) --- Lips. The Jews assert, without reason, that he was guilty in his heart....
(9) Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. (10) But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good...
From Riches to Ashes I. INTRODUCTION A. In our last study of the first Chapter of Job, we saw heavenly beings gathered to give an account to the Lord - and satan was amongst them! 1. satan accused...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. In Job we have man put to the test; we might say, with our present knowledge, man renewed by grace, an upright man and righteous in his ways, in ord...
BUT HE SAID UNTO HER, THOU SPEAKEST AS ONE OF THE FOOLISH WOMEN SPEAKETH,.... The wicked and profane women of that age; he does not say she was one of them, but spake like them; which intimates that s...
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. Ver...
_But he said, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh_ That is, like a rash, inconsiderate, and weak woman, that does not understand nor mind what she says: or rather, like a wicked and pro...
JOB REBUKES HIS WIFE...
But he, sharply reproving her for her lack of trust in the goodness of Jehovah, SAID UNTO HER, THOU SPEAKEST AS ONE OF THE FOOLISH WOMEN SPEAKETH, in a godless and impious manner, which he, as his wor...
SATAN INFLICTS BODILY SUFFERING ON HIM (vv.1-10), Another day comes when Satan presents himself to God among the sons of God, and his response to God's first question was the same as in Chapter 1. T...
"YOU SPEAK AS ONE OF THE FOOLISH WOMEN SPEAKS": "God intends that husbands and wives assist one another in their heavenward journey, but sometimes mates turn out to be more of. hindrance than. help" _...
7-10 The devil tempts his own children, and draws them to sin, and afterwards torments, when he has brought them to ruin; but this child of God he tormented with affliction, and then tempted to make...
AS ONE OF THE FOOLISH WOMEN, i.e. like a rash, and inconsiderate, and weak person that dost not understand nor mind what thou sayest. Or, like a wicked and most profane person; for such are frequently...
Job 2:10 said H559 (H8799) speak H1696 (H8762) one H259 women H5036 speaks H1696 (H8763) indeed...
CONTENTS: Job in Satan's seive. Family, property and health gone. His three friends. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Satan, Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar. CONCLUSION: One of the greatest evidences of God's love to t...
Job 2:1. _There was a day when the sons of God &c._ As on the former chapter, Job 2:6. Job 2:4. _Skin for skin._ Septuagint, “skin after skin.” Men's riches in the first periods of society very much c...
_Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?_ A RIGHT VIEW OF LIFE The inspiration of the Book of Job is sufficiently established-- (1) By internal evidence; (2) by th...
_Behold, he is in thine hand._ SATAN MALEVOLENTLY DEALING WITH JOB’S PERSONALITY I. Satan’s low estimate of human nature. His language here clearly implies that even a good man’s love of goodness is...
_And Satan came also among them._ SPIRITUAL AGENCIES, GOOD AND EVIL, IN SICKNESS This is one of those mysterious Chapter s of Holy Scripture wherein God hath graciously vouchsafed, for the strengthen...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 2:1 Job’s second test is like the first (Job 1:6), but includes an attack on his health. ⇐...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 2:10 Job does not presume fully to know his wife’s heart, but he warns her against speaking like ONE OF THE FOOLISH WOMEN. ⇐...
NOTES Job 2:7. “_Smote Job with sore boils_.” The Septuagint and Vulgate, followed by MARTIN and DIODATI in their French and Italian versions, render the words which describe Job’s disease, “a bad or...
EXPOSITION JOB 2:1 This chapter concludes the "Introductory section." It consists of three parts. Job 2:1 contain an account of Satan's second appearance in the courts of heaven, and of a second coll...
So back again to the heavenly scene. Another day and again the sons of God are presenting themselves before Jehovah, and Satan is coming with them to present himself before the LORD (Job 2:1). I hav...
2 Chronicles 16:9; 2 Samuel 13:13; 2 Samuel 19:22; 2 Samuel 19:28;...
JOB'S SORROWS AND SIGHS Job 2:9; Job 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In this study we will consider the verses which lie in the second chapter of Job beginning with verse nine where we left off in the forme...
Shall we — Shall we poor worms give laws to our supreme Lord, and oblige him never to afflict us? And shall not those great and manifold mercies, which from time to time God hath given us, compensate...