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Verse Job 31:17. _OR HAVE EATEN MY MORSEL MYSELF ALONE_] Hospitality
was a very prominent virtue among the ancients in almost all nations:
friends and strangers were equally welcome to the board of t...
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OR HAVE EATEN MY MORSEL MYSELF ALONE - If I have not imparted what I
had though ever so small, to others. This was in accordance with the
Oriental laws of hospitality. It is regarded as a fixed law am...
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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 (Job 31:35)
Job 31:1. His final...
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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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OR HAVE EATEN MY MORSEL MYSELF ALONE— This is agreeable to the early
ideas of hospitality, and is as strong an expression of benevolence as
can be conceived. The Arabs practise it to this very day in...
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b.
Was upright in his domestic relations (Job 31:9-15)
c.
He was kind and neighborly. (Job 31:16-23)
TEXT 31:9-23
9 IF MY HEART HATH BEEN ENTICED ONTO A WOMAN,
And I have laid wait at my neighbo...
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_IF I DID DESPISE THE CAUSE OF MY MANSERVANT OR OF MY MAIDSERVANT,
WHEN THEY CONTENDED WITH ME;_
Job affirms his freedom from unfairness toward his servants: from
harshness and oppression toward the...
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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.
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CHAPTER 31
JOB FINISHES HIS LAST SP...
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וְ אֹכַ֣ל פִּתִּ֣י לְ בַדִּ֑י וְ לֹא
־אָכַ֖ל יָתֹ֣ום מִמֶּֽנָּה׃...
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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...
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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 iniquit...
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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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_Alone. This was objected to St. Chrysostom. (Calmet) --- But his
conduct proceeded not from pride or avarice. (Haydock) --- The ancient
patriarchs delighted much in the exercise of hospitality; and T...
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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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OR HAVE EATEN MY MORSEL MYSELF ALONE,.... Though he had kept no doubt
a plentiful table in the time of his prosperity suitable to his
circumstances, yet had been no luxurious person, and therefore cal...
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Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not
eaten thereof;
Ver. 17. _Or have eaten my morsel myself alone_] As that churl Nabal
did, and therefore merited the title of Pamphagus...
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_If I have withheld the poor_, &c. If I have denied them what they
desired of me, either in justice or from necessity; for he was under
no obligation to grant their vain or inordinate desires. _Or hav...
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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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16-23 Job's conscience gave testimony concerning his just and
charitable behaviour toward the poor. He is most large upon this head,
because in this matter he was particularly accused. He was tender o...
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EATEN MY MORSEL MYSELF ALONE; without communicating part of my
provisions or estate to the poor, as it follows. THE FATHERLESS: this
one kind of necessitous persons is put for all the rest....
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Job 31:17 eaten H398 (H8799) morsel H6595 fatherless H3490 eat H398
(H8804)
have - Deuteronomy 15:11, Deuteronomy 15:14; Nehemiah 8:10; Luke
11:41; John 13:29; Acts
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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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_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 31:16 The law commanded Israelites to care for the
POOR, WIDOW, FATHERLESS, and NEEDY (Exodus 22:21). Job lived this way
because he believed God weighed his actions and that CALAMITY w...
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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 _privat...
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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 John 3:17; Acts 4:32; Deuteronomy 15:11; Deuteronomy 15:14; Ezekiel
18:16; Ezekiel 18:7; James 1:27; Job 29:13; John 13:29; Luke 11:41;...