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IF I HAVE MADE GOLD MY HOPE - That is, if I have put my trust in gold
rather than in God; if I have fixed my affections with idolatrous
attachment on riches rather than on my Maker. Job here introduce...
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CHAPTER 31
_ 1. My chastity and righteousness (Job 31:1)_
2. My philanthropy (Job 31:13)
3. My integrity and hospitality (Job 31:24)
4. Let God and man disprove me ...
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JOB 31. THE OATH OF CLEARING. Job's final protestation of his
innocence, and appeal to God to judge him. This chapter, says Duhm, is
the high-water mark of the OT ethic, higher than the Decalogue or e...
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DISCOURSE: 483
SPIRITUAL IDOLATRY
Job 31:24; Job 31:28. If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the
fine gold, Thou art my confidence; if I rejoiced because my wealth was
great, and because mine...
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d. He did not trust in wealth nor in heavenly bodies. (Job 31:24-28)
TEXT 31:24-28
24 IF I HAVE MADE GOLD MY HOPE,
And have said to the fine gold,
_Thou art_ my confidence;
25 If I have rejoiced...
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_IF I HAVE MADE GOLD MY HOPE, OR HAVE SAID TO THE FINE GOLD, THOU ART
MY CONFIDENCE;_
Job asserts his freedom from trust in money (1 Timothy 6:17). Here he
turns to his duty toward God, as before be h...
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JOB PROTESTS THE INNOCENCE OF HIS PAST LIFE
Job's virtues are those of a great Arab prince, such as are admired
still: namely, blameless family life, consideration for the poor and
weak, charity, mod...
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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 31
JOB FINISHES HIS LAST SP...
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Money becomes like a false god for many people. They think that money
can rescue them from any trouble. And they would do anything to get
more money. See Matthew 6:24 and 1 Timothy 6:10.
Job had been...
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IF I HAVE MADE GOLD MY HOPE. — He here refers to the admonition of
Eliphaz (Job 22:23), and declares that such had not been his practice....
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אִם ־שַׂ֣מְתִּי זָהָ֣ב כִּסְלִ֑י וְ֝
לַ †...
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XXIV.
AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING
Job 29:1; Job 30:1; Job 31:1
Job SPEAKS
FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a
pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the y...
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THE CLEAN LIFE
Job 31:1
Job had specially guarded against impurity, for its heritage is one of
calamity and disaster. He is sure that even if he were weighed by God
Himself there would be no iniquity...
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This whole chapter is taken up with Job's solemn oath of innocence. It
is ills official answer to the line of argument adopted by his three
friends. In the process of his declaration he called on God...
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Fine _obrizo. Hebrew cethem, chap. xxviii. 15. (Haydock)_...
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(9) В¶ If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have
laid wait at my neighbour's door; (10) Then let my wife grind unto
another, and let others bow down upon her. (11) For this is an heino...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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IF I HAVE MADE GOLD MY HOPE,.... Job here purges himself from idolatry
in a figurative sense, as he afterwards does from it, taken in a
literal sense; for covetousness is idolatry, and a covetous man...
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If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, [Thou art]
my confidence;
Ver. 24. _If I have made gold my hope_] The Seventy read, _Si posui
aurum in coniugmm meum; _ signifying the cove...
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_If I have made gold my hope_ That is, the matter of my hope and
trust, expecting safety and happiness from it, and placing my chief
joy in the increase of my riches....
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If I have made gold my hope, putting his trust in it, OR HAVE SAID TO
THE FINE GOLD, THOU ART MY CONFIDENCE;...
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JOB RECOUNTS HIS BLAMELESS CONDUCT...
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Though Job's misery was complete, he returns in this chapter to the
defence of his whole life, which was comparatively more virtuous than
that of any other man. God had said this to Satan long before...
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Job denies that he had placed his trust in money or possessions
(Matthew 6:19-21). He was not trying to serve God and mammon (Matthew
6:24). He was wealthy, but he did not worship or place his confide...
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24-32 Job protests, 1. That he never set his heart upon the wealth of
this world. How few prosperous professors can appeal to the Lord, that
they have not rejoiced because their gains were great! Thr...
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MY HOPE, i.e. the matter of my hope and trust, placing my chief joy
and satisfaction in worldly wealth, expecting safety and happiness
from it. Compare PSALMS 62:10....
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Job 31:24 made H7760 (H8804) gold H2091 hope H3689 said H559 (H8804)
gold H3800 confidence H4009...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He insists on his integrity.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends.
CONCLUSION: An upright heart does not dread a scrutiny. A good man is
willing to know the worst of himse...
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Job 31:1. _A maid._ The LXX, followed by the Chaldaic, read virgin;
but our English version has the most ancient support. Job was pure and
spotless in conversation with women. He abhorred seduction, a...
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_If I have made gold my hope._
ON THE LOVE OF MONEY
How universal is it among those who are in pursuit of wealth to make
gold their hope; and, among those who are in possession of wealth, to
make fin...
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_I made a covenant with mine eyes._
GUARD THE SENSES
Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s
landing places, especially the eye and the ear. (_W. Gurnall._)
METHODS OF MORAL...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 31:24 Job has guarded against the idolatry of
trusting in the wealth that God has provided rather than trusting in
God himself. He has also avoided the idolatry of worshiping what God...
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_JOB’S SELF-VINDICATION.—HIS SOLILOQUY CONTINUED_
Concludes his speeches by a solemn, particular, and extended
declaration of the purity and uprightness of his life. Especial
reference to his _private...
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EXPOSITION
The conclusion of Job's long speech (ch. 26-31.) is now reached. He
winds it up by a solemn vindication of himself from all the charges of
wicked conduct which have been alleged or insinuat...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Job, chapter 31.
Job has pretty well talked down all of his friends. Bildad has had his
last word and Job is still responding, and has been responding,
actua...
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1 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:17; Colossians 3:5; Deuteronomy 8:12;...