Verse Job 2:3. _TO DESTROY HIM WITHOUT CAUSE._] Thou wishedst me to permit thee to destroy a man whose sins have not called for so heavy a judgment. This seems to be the meaning of this saying. The o...
HAST THOU CONSIDERED - Notes, Job 1:8. THAT THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM IN THE EARTH - The same addition is made here by the Septuagint which occurs in Job 1:1; see the notes at that verse. And still he h...
CHAPTER 2:1-10 _ 1. Jehovah's second challenge and Satan's answer (Job 2:1)_ 2. Job stricken (Job 2:7) 3. Job's wife, Job's answer and victory (Job 2:9) Job 2
THE NARRATIVE OF THE SECOND CONVERSATION BETWEEN YAHWEH AND THE SATAN AND ITS ISSUES. Again the heavenly council comes together, and Yahweh reproaches the Satan with instigating Him to bring undeserve...
PERFECT AND AN UPRIGHT. See note on Job 1:1....
_still he holdeth fast his integrity_ Or, HIS PERFECTNESS, see on Job 1:1. Satan had insinuated that Job's religiousness was interested, he served God for the benefits He conferred. That he maintained...
TO DESTROY HIM WITHOUT CAUSE— The most that can be meant by this expression is, _without his desert,_ (according to the usual way of speaking, for, strictly speaking, we all deserve hell;) or without...
6. The second trialbodily suffering (Job 2:1-8) TEXT 2:1-8 2 Again it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan came also among them to presen...
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO SATAN, HAST THOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB, THAT THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM IN THE EARTH, A PERFECT AND AN UPRIGHT MAN, ONE THAT FEARETH GOD, AND ESCHEWETH EVIL? AND STILL HE HOLDE...
THE PROLOGUE (CONTINUED) Job's second trial. He refuses to renounce God when afflicted with an excruciating disease. Three friends come to comfort him....
ALTHOUGH THOU MOVEDST, etc.] or, 'so that it was in vain thou movedst me against him to destroy him.' 4, 5. SKIN FOR SKIN, etc.] The precise meaning of the proverb is uncertain, but the general meanin...
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 2 SATAN OPPOSES JOB AGAIN...
These verses are similar to Job 1:7-8. But God also accused Satan at the end of verse 3. God said that Satan had no reason to oppose Job. Satan is cruel. He hates everyone who trusts God. But Satan i...
וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל ־הַ שָּׂטָ֗ן הֲ
V. THE DILEMMA OF FAITH Job 2:1 As the drama proceeds to unfold the conflict between Divine grace in the human soul and those chaotic influences which hold the mind in doubt or drag it back into den...
“AMONG THE ASHES” Job 2:1 It gives God deep pleasure when He can point to one of His servants who has borne fiery trial with unwavering patience and faith. The adversary comes back from his restless,...
Again the solemn council met, and again Satan was present. The Most High uttered the same estimate of His servant as before, adding thereto a declaration of Job's victory in the conflict which had tak...
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he hold...
_Simple. Plain-dealing, mild, and without guile. (St. Gregory) (Worthington) --- Without cause. This may form a new sentence. (Haydock) --- Thy proposal and attempts are vain. (Calmet) --- Job has not...
(2) And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. (3) And the LORD said unto Sat...
From Riches to Ashes I. INTRODUCTION A. In our last study of the first Chapter of Job, we saw heavenly beings gathered to give an account to the Lord - and satan was amongst them! 1. satan accused...
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...
AND THE LORD SAID UNTO SATAN, HAST THOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB, THAT [THERE IS] NONE LIKE HIM IN THE EARTH, A PERFECT AND AN UPRIGHT MAN, ONE THAT FEARETH GOD, AND ESCHEWETH EVIL?.... The same with...
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he hold...
_Hast thou considered_, &c. Hebrew, השׁמת לבךְ, _hashamta libbecha, Hast thou set thy heart on my servant?_ &c. _And still he holdeth fast his integrity_ Notwithstanding all his trials and tribulation...
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered My servant Job, namely, by concentrating his attention upon him, THAT THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM IN THE EARTH, A PERFECT AND AN UPRIGHT MAN, ONE THAT FEA...
JOB STRICKEN WITH A SEVERE DISEASE...
SATAN INFLICTS BODILY SUFFERING ON HIM (vv.1-10), Another day comes when Satan presents himself to God among the sons of God, and his response to God's first question was the same as in Chapter 1. T...
TO DESTROY HIM: _ Heb._ to swallow him up...
"HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB….AND HE STILL HOLDS FAST HIS INTEGRITY": Yes Satan, remember what you said about Job and how you slandered him and accused him of being. fair weather friend. "Intru...
STILL, notwithstanding all his trials and tribulations, and thy malicious suggestion to the contrary, he holdeth fast his integrity, i.e. he continues to be the same perfect and upright man which he w...
Job 2:3 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Satan H7854 Have H7760 (H8804) considered H3820 servant H5650 Job...
FEARETH (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
CONTENTS: Job in Satan's seive. Family, property and health gone. His three friends. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Satan, Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar. CONCLUSION: One of the greatest evidences of God's love to t...
Job 2:1. _There was a day when the sons of God &c._ As on the former chapter, Job 2:6. Job 2:4. _Skin for skin._ Septuagint, “skin after skin.” Men's riches in the first periods of society very much c...
_Still he holdeth fast his integrity._ A COMMENDATION OF JOB’S INTEGRITY 1. Constancy in piety, notwithstanding the sharp temptations of an afflicted condition, is a singular commendation in God’s es...
_And Satan came also among them._ SPIRITUAL AGENCIES, GOOD AND EVIL, IN SICKNESS This is one of those mysterious Chapter s of Holy Scripture wherein God hath graciously vouchsafed, for the strengthen...
NOTES Job 2:4. “_Skin for skin; yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life_.” The expression “skin for skin” acknowledged to be a proverbial one. Its precise meaning not so obvious, though its...
EXPOSITION JOB 2:1 This chapter concludes the "Introductory section." It consists of three parts. Job 2:1 contain an account of Satan's second appearance in the courts of heaven, and of a second coll...
So back again to the heavenly scene. Another day and again the sons of God are presenting themselves before Jehovah, and Satan is coming with them to present himself before the LORD (Job 2:1). I hav...
1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 5:10; 2 Samuel 20:20; Genesis 6:9; James 1:12;...
HEAVEN'S CONTROVERSY CONCERNING JOB Job 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. God's everlasting eye watches over His children. When Satan made his second entrance into the presence of God, he discovered that t...
Still — Notwithstanding all his afflictions, and thy suggestion to the contrary. Movedst — This, as the rest of this representation, is not to be understood literally: But the design is to signify bot...