Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 31:39
Without money — Either without paying the price for the land, or by defrauding my workmen of their wages. Life — Killing them that I might have undisturbed possession of it, as Ahab did Naboth.
Without money — Either without paying the price for the land, or by defrauding my workmen of their wages. Life — Killing them that I might have undisturbed possession of it, as Ahab did Naboth.
Verse Job 31:39. _IF I HAVE EATEN THE FRUITS THEREOF WITHOUT MONEY_] I have never been that _narrow-minded_ man who, through a principle of _covetousness_, exhausts his land, putting himself to no _c...
IF I HAVE EATEN THE FRUITS THEREOF - Margin, strength. The strength of the earth is that which the earth produces or which is the result of its strength. We speak now of a “strong soil “ - meaning tha...
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...
HAVE CAUSED, &C.. made the souls of the owners groan. LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
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 I HAVE EATEN THE FRUITS THEREOF WITHOUT MONEY, OR HAVE CAUSED THE OWNERS THEREOF TO LOSE THEIR LIFE:_ Lose ... life - not literally, but 'harassed to death;' until he gave me up his land gratis ...
31:39 death (d-14) or 'despised.'...
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
אִם ־כֹּ֖חָהּ אָכַ֣לְתִּי בְלִי ־כָ֑סֶף וְ נֶ
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 I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused (e) the owners thereof to lose their life: (e) Meaning, that he was not a briber or extortioner....
_Money. Or paying for them. (Menochius) --- And have. Protestants, "or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life."_...
(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 I HAVE EATEN THE FRUITS THEREOF WITHOUT MONEY,.... Or, "the strength thereof without silver" b; see Genesis 4:12, silver being the money chiefly in use in those times. Job's meaning is, that he ate...
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: Ver. 39. _If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money_] _i.e._ Not paying the labourers th...
_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...
if I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, having taken some one's land in injustice, without payment, OR HAVE CAUSED THE OWNERS THEREOF TO LOSE THEIR LIFE, either directly or indirectly:...
Job's Appeal to be Heard...
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...
THE FRUITS THEREOF: _ Heb._ the strength thereof CAUSED THE OWNERS THEREOF TO LOSE THEIR LIFE: _ Heb._ caused the soul of the owners thereof to expire, or breath out...
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...
WITHOUT MONEY; either without paying the price required by the right owner for the land, or by defrauding my workmen of the wages of their labours. TO LOSE THEIR LIFE; killing them, that so I might ha...
Job 31:39 eaten H398 (H8804) fruit H3581 money H3701 owners H1167 lose H5301 (H8689) lives H5315 fruits -
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...
1 Kings 21:13; 1 Kings 21:19; Ezekiel 22:12; Ezekiel 22:13; E