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Verse Job 42:6. _I ABHOR_ MYSELF] Compared with thine, my strength is
weakness; my wisdom, folly; and my righteousness, impurity.
"I loathe myself when thee I see;
And into nothing fall."
_REPENT_...
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WHEREFORE I ABHOR MYSELF - I see that I am a sinner to be loathed and
abhorred. Job, though he did not claim to be perfect, had yet
unquestionably been unduly exalted with the conception of his own
ri...
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VI. THE CONFESSION OF JOB
CHAPTER 42:1-6
Critics claim that Job's answer is misplaced and that it really ought
to be put in connection with chapter 41:3-5. This is another evidence
of the lack of spi...
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Job's final speech (continuation of Job 40:3).
Job 42:1 is to be removed as a gloss: as are also Job 42:3 a, Job 42:4
b, which are quoted from...
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I ABHOR MYSELF, AND REPENT. "The end of the Lord" (i.e. what Jehovah
designed as the great lesson of this book) is at length reached.
Compare James 5:11....
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The effect of this deeper knowledge of God upon Job's heart.
_I abhor myself_ The word _myself_is not expressed; what has to be
supplied as the object of "abhor" is rather _it_, that is, my former
la...
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Job 40:6 to Job 42:6. The Lord's Second Answer to Job out of the Storm
Shall Man charge God with unrighteousness in His Rule of the World?
All that the first speech of the Lord touched upon was the...
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Job 42:1-6. Job's reply to the Lord's Second Address from the Storm
The Lord's words make Job feel more deeply than before that greatness
which belongs to God alone, and with deep compunction he retr...
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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...
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D. MAN IN GOD'S IMAGE VS. GOD IN MAN'S IMAGE (Job 42:1-6)
TEXT 42:1-6
42 THEN JOB ANSWERED JEHOVAH AND SAID,
2 I know that thou canst do all things,
And that no purpose of thine can be restrained....
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_WHEREFORE I ABHOR MYSELF, AND REPENT IN DUST AND ASHES._
Myself - rather, 'I abhor,' and retract the rash speeches I made
against thee (Job 42:3). (Umbreit.)...
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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 42
THE END OF JOB’S TROUBLE...
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Job was a servant of God, even before Job began to suffer. Then, Job
trusted God because other people had told him about God.
When God spoke, Job had a new experience. Job learned many things from
Go...
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עַל ־כֵּ֭ן אֶמְאַ֣ס וְ נִחַ֑מְתִּי
עַל ־עָפָ֥
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RESTORED TO RIGHT RELATIONS WITH GOD
Job 42:1
In complete surrender Job bowed before God, confessing his ignorance
and owning that he had spoken glibly of things which he understood
not. He had retor...
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Job's answer is full of the stateliness of a great submission. As he
speaks the words of surrender he appears mightier in his submission
than all the things into the presence of which he has been brou...
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Reprehend. Hebrew and Septuagint, "vilify." (Haydock) --- I recall the
obscure expression which has occasioned my friends to mistake. (Du
Hamel) --- Penance. Hebrew, "groan." Septuagint, "pine away, I...
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(1) В¶ Then Job answered the LORD, and said, (2) I know that thou
canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
(3) Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore h...
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_THE MYSTERY OF PAIN_
‘I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye
seeth Thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.’
Job 42:5
There are some verses in the bo...
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God Speaks Job Repents
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Last week we covered a lot of territory!
1. We finished with Elihu's speeches to Job and found that, although
he was a lot more accurate in what he had to...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42.
Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He
makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be
vile, an...
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WHEREFORE I ABHOR [MYSELF],.... Or all my words, as Aben Ezra; all the
indecent expressions he had uttered concerning God; he could not bear
to think of them; he loathed them, and himself on account o...
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Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.
Ver. 6. _Wherefore I abhor myself_] _Aspernor illa,_ so Tremellius. I
utterly dislike those my former base and bald conceits of thee, my
hard...
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_Wherefore I abhor myself_, &c. The more we see of the glory and
majesty of God, the more we shall see of the vileness and odiousness
of sin, and of ourselves because of sin; and the more we shall aba...
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Wherefore I abhor myself, Job utterly repudiated and rejected all his
rash statements, which had cast slurs upon God's justice, AND REPENT
IN DUST AND ASHES, in the deepest humiliation and mourning. T...
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JOB'S HUMBLE CONFESSION....
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JOBS REPENTANCE AND PRAYER
(vv.1-9)
Who would not be totally subdued after hearing God speak such things
as He did to Job? What a change took place in Job's attitude and in
his words! He was humbled...
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1-6 Job was now sensible of his guilt; he would no longer speak in
his own excuse; he abhorred himself as a sinner in heart and life,
especially for murmuring against God, and took shame to himself....
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I ABHOR, i.e. dislike, and detest, and loathe MYSELF, or _my former
words and carriage_. One of these or some like supplement is necessary
to complete the sense, and is clearly gathered from the follo...
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Job 42:6 abhor H3988 (H8799) repent H5162 (H8738) dust H6083 ashes
H665
I - Job 9:31,...
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WHEREFORE I ABHOR MYSELF
The problem, of which the book of Job is the profound discussion,
finds here its solution. Brought into the presence of God, Job is
revealed to himself. In no sense a hypocri...
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Job 17:9 ; JOB 42:5
I. It is not possible to set out the salient features of Job's
strength without taking into account the immense energy he derived
from his burning consciousness of unimpeachable in...
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CONTENTS: Job's self-judgment, followed by new prosperity.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz, three friends.
CONCLUSION: Righteousness in a man is excellent but when one becomes
too much aware of their...
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Job 42:5. _But now mine eye seeth thee._ I have seen thee in thy
works, and heard the voice of nature. I have heard all those speeches
of my friends, circumscribed in knowledge, and erroneous in judgm...
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_I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear._
JOB’S KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
The text shoots a ray of light athwart the dark problem discussed in
the earlier portion of this Book. How are the afflictions...
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_Then Job answered the Lord, and said._
JOB’S CONFESSION AND RESTORATION
I. Job’s acknowledgment of God’s greatness. Throughout his
speeches Job had frequently asserted the majesty of God. But now h...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 42:1 In response to the Lord’s rebuke, Job
confesses that the Lord’s power and purposes will not fail, and that
he has spoken of things beyond his knowledge.
⇐...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 42:6 The Lord has already been merciful to Job. His
rebukes and questions have been for Job’s own good. I DESPISE
MYSELF. That is, “I recognize the ignorance behind my own words.”
God’...
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NOTES
Job 42:11. “_A piece of money_.” According to Gesenius and others,
קשׂיִטָה (_kesitah_), from the unused root קָשַׂט =
قَسَطٰ (_kasata_) to “be just or true;” whence قسْط
(_Kistoon_) “balances;”...
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SECTION VII.—HISTORICAL SEQUEL TO THE DIALOG
EXPOSITION
JOB 42:1
This concluding chapter divides into two parts. In the first part (Job
42:1) Job makes his final subm
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Then Job answered the LORD, and said, I know that you can do
everything, and that no thought can be withheld from thee (Job
42:1-2).
Pretty important: "I know God can do everything." Secondly, "I kno...
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1 Corinthians 15:8; 1 Corinthians 15:9; 1 Kings 21:27; 1 Timothy 1:13;...
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GOD SPEAKS TO JOB
Job 38:1 _to Job 42:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of
redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed on those
lines....