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Verse Job 31:23. _DESTRUCTION_ FROM _GOD_ WAS _A TERROR_] I have ever
been preserved from outward sin, through the fear of God's judgments;
I knew his eye was constantly upon me, and I could
"Never i...
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FOR DESTRUCTION FROM GOD WAS A TERROR TO ME - The destruction which
God would bring upon one who was guilty of the crime here specified,
awed and restrained me. He was deterred from this crime of oppr...
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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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HIGHNESS. majesty.
ENDURE. escape....
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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.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 31
JOB FINISHES HIS LAST SP...
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I COULD NOT ENDURE. — Rather, _I was unable to act thus.
_...
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כִּ֤י פַ֣חַד אֵ֭לַי אֵ֣יד אֵ֑ל וּ֝ מִ
שְּׂאֵתֹ֗ו לֹ֣א אוּכָֽל׃...
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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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For destruction [from] God [was] a (q) terror to me, and by reason of
his highness I could not endure.
(q) I did not refrain from sin for fear of men, but because I feared
God....
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_Bear. I knew that he would resent the injury, though I might, for a
time, oppress the weak._...
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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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FOR DESTRUCTION [FROM] GOD [WAS] A TERROR TO ME,.... Though he feared
not men, they being at his beck and command, ready to do any thing for
him he should order, yet he feared God; and the dread of hi...
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For destruction [from] God [was] a terror to me, and by reason of his
highness I could not endure.
Ver. 23. _For destruction from God was a terror to me_] Such an
eminent and exemplary calamity or mi...
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_For destruction_, &c. I stood in awe of God, and his justice and
wrath, and therefore made it my care and business to shun sin, and to
please him. _And by reason of his highness_ His excellence or ma...
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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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Being terrified by God's ability to destroy the wicked is not. bad
thing, along with loving God, this fear of God had helped him stay on
the straight and narrow....
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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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I was so far from denying or questioning God's providence, wherewith
you seem to charge me, that I always reverenced it; and when by reason
of my great wealth, and power, and interest I had little rea...
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Job 31:23 destruction H343 God H410 terror H6343 magnificence H7613
endure H3201 (H8799)
destruction - Job 20:23, Job 21:20; Genesis 39:9; Psalms 119:120;
Isaiah 13:6; Joel 1:15;...
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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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2 Corinthians 5:11; Genesis 39:9; Isaiah 13:6; Job 13:11; Job 20:23;
Job 21:20; Job 40:9; Job 42:5; Job 42:6; Joel 1:15;...
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For — I stood in awe of God and of his judgments. I could not — I
knew myself unable either to oppose his power, or to bear his wrath.
Even good men have need to restrain themselves from sin, with the...