then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, being severed from the joint which held it, and mine arm be broken from the bone, literally, "the pipe," from the hollow, pipelike bones to which it was attached.
Verse Job 31:22. _LET MINE ARM FALL_] Mr. _Good_, as a medical man, is at home in the translation of this verse: - "May my shoulder-bone be shivered at the blade, And mine arm be broken off at the s...
THEN LET MINE ARM - The strong language which Job uses here, shows his consciousness of innocence, and his detestation of the offences to which he here refers, Job 31:16. The word rendered “arm” here...
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...
THE BONE. Authorized Version margin, "the chanel bone". Obsolete Eng. for channel. what is channelled or scooped out: i.e. the socket....
THEN LET MINE ARM FALL FROM MY SHOULDER-BLADE— _May my shoulder-blade fall from my shoulder, and my arm be broken from my elbow._ Heath and Houbigant....
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...
_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...
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...
BONE] i.e. collar-bone....
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...
Many people today do not think that they should help poor people. And many people are only generous to their own friends and family. But the Bible teaches that we should be generous to other people al...
כְּ֭תֵפִי מִ שִּׁכְמָ֣ה תִפֹּ֑ול וְ֝ אֶזְרֹעִ֗י...
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...
[Then] let mine (p) arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. (p) Let me rot in pieces....
_With. Hebrew, "from its bone," at the elbow. (Septuagint) (Calmet)_...
(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...
_A DARING APPEAL_ ‘If … then!’ Job 31:16; Job 31:22 I. JOB PROTESTS THE EVEN-HANDEDNESS OF HIS DEALINGS WITH HIS SERVANTS, alleging the principle which underlies the whole Christian teaching on the...
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...
[THEN] LET MINE ARM FALL FROM MY SHOULDER BLADE,.... With which the upper part of it is connected; let it be disjointed from it, or rot and drop off from it; a dreadful calamity this, to lose an arm a...
Job 31:22 [Then] let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. Ver. 22. _Then let mine arm fall from the shoulder blade_] That unworthy arm of mine (as Cranmer cried...
_If I have seen any perish_ When it was in my power to help them. _If his loins have not blessed me_ That is, if my covering his loins hath not given him occasion to bless me, and to pray to God to bl...
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...
BONE: Or, the chanelbone...
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...
I am contented that that arm which hath been so wickedly employed may either rot off, or fall out of joint, and so be useless and burdensome to me....
Job 31:22 arm H3802 fall H5307 (H8799) shoulder H7929 arm H248 torn H7665 (H8735) socket H7070 let -...
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...
_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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 31:16 The law commanded Israelites to care for the POOR, WIDOW, FATHERLESS, and NEEDY ...
_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...
Job 31:10; Job 31:40; Joshua 22:22; Joshua 22:23; Psalms 137:6;...