Job 27:1
PARABLE] i.e. discourse: cp. Numbers 23:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
PARABLE] i.e. discourse: cp. Numbers 23:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
JOB'S EIGHTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-6. Job protests that he is innocent. Job 27:1 are an enlargement of what Job had previously said (Job 13:16) of his determination not to admit that he was being punished for his sins, since he felt that he was innocent of any great offence. This much is plain, but... [ Continue Reading ]
MY JUDGMENT] RV 'my right.' God has not yet vindicated Job's uprightness, on which his sufferings throw doubt. 3A. RV 'For my life is yet whole in me.' The v. is a parenthesis, explaining that Job is in full possession of all his faculties, when he makes this deliberate utterance. SPIRIT OF GOD] cp... [ Continue Reading ]
He will not acknowledge guilt of which he is unconscious.... [ Continue Reading ]
I SHOULD JUSTIFY YOU] i.e. by admitting their contention that he was suffering for his sins. 6B. RM 'My heart doth not reproach _me_ for any of my days.' 7-23. The fate of the wicked. Here it would seem that Zophar speaks.... [ Continue Reading ]
HYPOCRITE] RV 'godless.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THOUGH HE HATH GAINED] RM 'when God cutteth him off.'... [ Continue Reading ]
BURIED IN DEATH] rather, 'buried by death.' 'Death' should here be rendered, 'pestilence': cp. Jeremiah 15:2; Jeremiah 18:21. In such a case there would be only maimed funeral rites.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS A MOTH] like the frail chrysalis or cocoon. AS A BOOTH] like the temporary shelter of the vineyard watchman. 19-23. The passage refers to the final fall of the wicked. In the Persian sacred books we read that the dead pious man is led by an angel created by his own good life to the 'bridge of th... [ Continue Reading ]