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Verse Job 31:20. _IF HIS LOINS HAVE NOT BLESSED ME_] This is a very
delicate touch: the part that was cold and shivering is now covered
with _warm woollen_. It _feels_ the comfort; and by a fine
_pros...
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IF HIS LOINS HAVE NOT BLESSED ME - This is a personification by which
the part of the body that had been clothed by the benevolence of Job,
is supposed to speak and render him thanks....
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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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LOINS HAVE NOT BLESSED. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia,_ App-6 :. the
loins so covered....
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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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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...
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אִם ־לֹ֣א בֵרֲכ֣וּנִי _חֲלָצָ֑יו_† וּ
מִ גֵּ֥ז...
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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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_Blessed me for clothing. (Menochius)_...
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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 HIS LOINS HAVE NOT BLESSED ME,.... Which were girded and covered
with garments he gave him; which, as often as he put on and girded his
loins with, put him in mind of his generous benefactor, and t...
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If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with
the fleece of my sheep;
Ver. 20. _If his loins have not blessed me_] As being warm clothed by
me; not with a suit of words, as tho...
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_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...
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JOB RECOUNTS HIS BLAMELESS CONDUCT...
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if his loins, covered by the bounty of Job, HAVE NOT BLESSED ME, AND
IF HE WERE NOT WARMED WITH THE FLEECE OF MY SHEEP, namely, in the form
of substantial, warm clothing;...
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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...
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Job 31:20 heart H2504 blessed H1288 (H8765) warmed H2552 (H8691)
fleece H1488 sheep H3532...
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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 ...
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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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Deuteronomy 24:13; Job 29:11...