George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 31:38
Mourn, as if I possessed the land unjustly, or had committed some crime.
Mourn, as if I possessed the land unjustly, or had committed some crime.
Verse Job 31:38. _IF MY LAND CRY_] The most careless reader may see that the introduction of this and the two following verses here, disturbs the connection, and that they are most evidently out of t...
IF MY LAND CRY AGAINST ME - This is a new specification of an offence, and an imprecation of an appropriate punishment if he had been guilty of it. Many have supposed that these closing verses have be...
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. 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...
LAND CRY... COMPLAIN. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6....
e. He lived openly and would not hesitate to have the Almighty publish his record. (Job 31:29-40) TEXT 31:29-40 29 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself w...
_IF MY LAND CRY AGAINST ME, OR THAT THE FURROWS LIKEWISE THEREOF COMPLAIN;_ Personification. The complaints of the unjustly ousted proprietors are transferred to the lands themselves (Job 31:20; Genes...
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...
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...
Job finished his speech with words about the ground. He had often spoken about the soil at the end of previous speeches (Job 7:21; Job 10:21-22; Job 17:16; Job 21:33
OR THAT THE FURROWS LIKEWISE THEREOF COMPLAIN. — Rather, _Or if the furrows thereof weep together_ — a strong impersonation to express the consequence of oppression and wrong-doing. It is to be observ...
אִם ־עָ֭לַי אַדְמָתִ֣י תִזְעָ֑ק וְ֝ יַ֗חַד תּ
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...
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...
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...
If my land (d) cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; (d) As though I had withheld their wages that laboured in it....
(33) В¶ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: (34) Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not ou...
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...
IF MY LAND CRY AGAINST ME,.... Some think that this verse and Job 31:39 stand out of their place, and should rather follow after Job 31:34; and some place them after Job 31:25; and others after...
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; Ver. 38. _If my land cry against me_] As unjustly gotten; where we have an elegant personification not unlike that of the pro...
_If my land cry against me_ To wit, to God, for revenge, (as the like phrase signifies, Genesis 4:10; Habakkuk 2:11,) because I have gotten it from the right owners by fraud or violence, as my friends...
Job's Appeal to be Heard...
If my land cry against me, if his field should cry out for vengeance against its owner, OR THAT THE FURROWS LIKEWISE THEREOF COMPLAIN, weeping in impotent pleading against Job's abuse;...
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...
COMPLAIN: _ Heb._ weep...
Here Job declares that he had been. good steward of God's earth. He had paid his workers well, he had treated his livestock well, and he had not misused the land that he tilled. Neither had he taken l...
33-40 Job clears himself from the charge of hypocrisy. We are loth to confess our faults, willing to excuse them, and to lay the blame upon others. But he that thus covers his sins, shall not prosper...
To wit, to God for revenge, as the like phrase is used, GENESIS 4:10 HABAKKUK 2:11, because I have gotten it from the right owners by fraud or violence, as my friends charge me, and as is implied in t...
Job 31:38 land H127 cries H2199 (H8799) And H3162 furrows H8525 weep H1058 (H8799) cry -...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
Habakkuk 2:11; James 5:4; Job 20:27; Psalms 65:13...
Cry — Because I have gotten it by fraud or violence....