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Verse Job 1:20. _RENT HIS MANTLE_] Tearing the garments, shaving or
pulling off the hair of the head, throwing dust or ashes on the head,
and fitting on the ground, were acts by which immoderate grie...
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THEN JOB AROSE - The phrase to arise, in the Scriptures is often used
in the sense of beginning to do anything. It does not necessarily
imply that the person had been previously sitting; see 2 Samuel...
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II. THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN JEHOVAH AND SATAN AND THE RESULTS
CHAPTER 1:6-22
_ 1. A scene in heaven, Jehovah's challenge and Satan's, accusation
(Job 1:6)_
2. Satan's power manifested (Job 1:13)
3...
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In the preceding section the narrative surged forward, depicting the
unbridled rage of the Satan. Here on the contrary we have a beautiful
picture of complete rest and resignation, and are taught how...
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SHAVED HIS HEAD. Symbolic of mourning (Leviticus 21:5.Jeremiah 7:29;
Jeremiah 16:6; Micah 1:16)....
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Job's first trial; and its issue: his reverence towards God remains
unshaken
Between Job 1:12 there is an interval, an ominous stillness like that
which precedes the storm. The poet has drawn aside t...
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Job's demeanour under his sorrows. As became a man of his rank Job had
received the messengers sitting. When the full extent of his misery
came home to him he arose and gave way to the liveliest expre...
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DISCOURSE: 451
TRIALS AND RESIGNATION OF JOB
Job 1:20. _Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head,
and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I
out of my mothe...
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5. Job maintains his integrity. (Job 1:20-22)
TEXT 1:20-22
(20) THEN JOB AROSE, AND RENT HIS ROBE, AND SHAVED HIS HEAD, AND FELL
DOWN UPON THE GROUND, AND WORSHIPPED; (21) AND HE SAID, NAKED CAME I
O...
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_THEN JOB AROSE, AND RENT HIS MANTLE, AND SHAVED HIS HEAD, AND FELL
DOWN UPON THE GROUND, AND WORSHIPPED,_
Job arose - not necessarily from sitting. Inward excitement is
implied, and the beginning to...
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RENT HIS MANTLE] Tearing the robe has always been an Eastern sign of
mourning, as was also shaving the head or pulling out the hair (see
Jeremiah 7:29; Micah 1:16). WORSHIPPED] lit. 'prostrated himsel...
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THE PROLOGUE
Job 1:2, which form the Prologue to the book, describe (_a_) the
prosperity and piety of Job; (_b_) a scene in heaven in which the
Satan questions the motives of his piety; and (_c_) his...
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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.
ABOUT THE BOOK OF JOB
The Book of...
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Satan did these terrible things to Job because Satan wanted Job to
insult God (verse 11). Satan thought that Job would hate God because
of these troubles. So Job’s reaction was important to Satan.
Jo...
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AND WORSHIPPED. — Compare the conduct of David (2 Samuel 12:20) and
of Hezekiah (2 Kings 19:1). Moments of intense sorrow or trial, like
moments of intense joy, force us into the immediate presence of...
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וַ יָּ֤קָם אִיֹּוב֙ וַ יִּקְרַ֣ע אֶת
־מְעִלֹ֔
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IV.
THE SHADOW OF GOD'S HAND
Job 1:13
COMING now to the sudden and terrible changes which are to prove the
faithfulness of the servant of God, we must not fail to observe that
in the development of...
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STRIPPED OF EVERY POSSESSION
Job 1:13
There are dark days in our lives, when messenger follows on the heel
of messenger, and we sit down amid the ruins of our happiness. All
that made life gay and b...
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In magnificence of argument and beauty of style this Book is one of
the grandest in the divine Library. The story of Job is presented in
dramatic form.
It opens with a picture of Job. He is seen in th...
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Then Job arose, and (a) rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell
down upon the ground, and worshipped,
(a) Which came not from impatience, but declares that the children of
God are not insensib...
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_Head. Hebrew, torn his hair, and rolled in the dust. (Bochart)
(Isaias xv. 2., &c.) (Calmet) --- The fathers oppose this example to
the apathy of the stoics. (St. Augustine, City of God i. 9.) (Roman...
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(20) В¶ Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head,
and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, (21) And said, Naked
came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither:...
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A Heavenly Meeting About a Good Man
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Job is the first of the poetical books which consist of Job,
Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, and Lamentations.
1. But don't e...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2.
In Job we have man put to the test; we might say, with our present
knowledge, man renewed by grace, an upright man and righteous in his
ways, in ord...
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THEN JOB AROSE,.... Either from table, being at dinner, as some think,
in his own house; it being the time that his children were feasting in
their eldest brother's house; or from the business in whic...
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Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell
down upon the ground, and worshipped,
Ver. 20. _Then Job arose, and rent his mantle_] He stirred not at the
three first doleful tidi...
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_Then Job arose_ From his seat whereon he had been sitting in a
disconsolate posture; _and rent his mantle_ In token of his deep sense
of, and just sorrow for, the heavy hand of God upon him, and his...
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Then Job, who was more deeply affected by the information of the death
of his children than by the loss of his entire property, AROSE AND
RENT HIS MANTLE, showing the violence of his grief, AND SHAVED...
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Job's Great Affliction...
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JOB, HIS FAMILY AND HIS PROMINENCE
(vv.1-5)
Uz is considered to have been in the area between Syria and Babylon.
There Job lived with his wife, seven sons and three daughters. He is
first spoken of...
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MANTLE:
Or, robe...
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"THEN JOB AROSE AND TORE HIS ROBE AND SHAVED HIS HEAD": Both of these
gestures are not the product of sinful anger, but they are expressions
of grief and shock (Genesis 37:29; Genesis 44:13; Judges 11...
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20-22 Job humbled himself under the hand of God. He reasons from the
common state of human life, which he describes. We brought nothing of
this world's goods into the world, but have them from others...
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THEN JOB AROSE FROM HIS SEAT, whereon he was sitting in a disconsolate
posture. RENT HIS MANTLE, to testify his deep sense of and just sorrow
for the heavy hand of God upon him, and his humiliation of...
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Job 1:20 Job H347 arose H6965 (H8799) tore H7167 (H8799) robe H4598
shaved H1494 (H8799) head...
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Job 1:6. _Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present
themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them._
Angels and all kinds of intelligent spirits had, as it were, a
special,...
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Job 1:1. _There was a man in the land of Uz,_
Job was a man indeed; a true man, a man of the highest type, for he
was a man of God.
Job 1:1. _Whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright...
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CONTENTS: Job's family and their piety. Satan's challenge and the
calamities that befell Job.
CHARACTERS: God, Satan, Job.
CONCLUSION: God allows Satan power over His saints but it is always
limited...
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Job 1:1. _The land of Uz._ Moses is always correct in calling
countries after the name of the first possessor. Uz was in the east
beyond Jordan, and south of mount Hermon. It fell to the lot of the
ha...
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_And worshipped._
THE GRAND VICTORY
This is the grandest scene that human nature has ever presented. The
world had never seen anything to compare to it. The greatest conqueror
that ever won his triu...
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_So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord _
THE FOE OF FOES
I. The enthusiasm of his malignity. No sooner does he receive
permission than he begins in terrible earnestness. He does not seem...
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_FIFTH PART OF INTRODUCTION—THE RESULT OF SATAN’S ATTEMPTS_
I. Job’s grief (Job 1:20). “Then Job arose.” Probably found by
the tidings in the usual posture of Orientals. Aroused from wonted
calmness....
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EXPOSITION
The "Historical Introduction" to Job extends to two chapters. In the
first we are given an account, firstly, of his outward
circumstances—his abode, wealth, family, etc; and of his characte...
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Shall we turn now to the book of Job, chapter 1.
As we come to the book of Job, we actually enter into a new section of
the Old Testament. As you know, the Old Testament is divided into
different divi...
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1 Peter 5:6; 2 Chronicles 7:3; 2 Samuel 12:16; Deuteronomy 9:18; E
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Shaved — Caused his hair to be shaved or cut off, which was then an
usual ceremony in mourning. Worshipped — Instead of cursing God,
which Satan said he would do, he adored him, and gave him the glory...
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Does this verse teach reincarnation?
PROBLEM: The Bible speaks against the belief in reincarnation (Hebrews
9:27). But here Job speaks of a person returning again after he dies.
SOLUTION: Job is not...