Job 2:1
II. (1) AND SATAN CAME ALSO. — See Job 1:7. St. Peter applies to Satan the verb from which we have _peripatetic. _... [ Continue Reading ]
II. (1) AND SATAN CAME ALSO. — See Job 1:7. St. Peter applies to Satan the verb from which we have _peripatetic. _... [ Continue Reading ]
SKIN FOR SKIN. — This is a more extreme form of the insinuation of Job 1:9. He means Job takes care to have his _quid pro quo;_ and if the worst come to the worst, a man will give up everything to save his life. If, therefore, Job can save his life at the price of subservience to God, he will willin... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT SAVE HIS LIFE. — God’s faithfulness cannot fail even if, as Satan hints, Job’s should do so (2 Timothy 2:13). There was one who cared for Job’s life more than he cared for it himself.... [ Continue Reading ]
SORE BOILS. — Supposed to be Elephantiasis, an extreme form of leprosy, in which the skin becomes clotted and hard like an elephant’s, with painful cracks and sores underneath.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID HIS WIFE. — Thus it is that a man’s foes are they of his own household (Micah 7:6; Matthew 10:36, &c.). The worst trial of all is when those nearest to us, instead of strengthening our hand in God and confirming our faith, conspire to destroy it.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 blessings in disguise. What Job meant was that we are _bound_ to expect evil as well as good from God’s... [ Continue Reading ]
ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE. — Teman was the son of Eliphaz, the son of Esau, to whose family this Eliphaz is probably to be referred (Genesis 36:4; Genesis 36:10). If so, this may roughly indicate the date of the book. The inhabitants of Teman, which lay north-east of Edom, were famed for their wisdom (Je... [ Continue Reading ]
AND KNEW HIM NOT. — Compare the converse statement descriptive of the love of mm who could recognise his lost son under a disguise as great as that of Job, or even greater (Luke 15:20).... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THEY SAT DOWN WITH HIM UPON THE GROUND SEVEN DAYS. — Compare the conduct of David (2 Samuel 12:16), and see also Genesis 1:10; 1 Samuel 31:13; Ezekiel 3:15. There is a colossal grandeur about this description which is in keeping with the majesty and hoary antiquity of the poem.... [ Continue Reading ]