Job longed for someone to hear and answer him. "So like. defendant in court, he signed (figuratively) his statement of his innocence" (Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 754). He also desires that God would write down in black and white the specific charges against him.
Verse Job 31:35. _O THAT ONE WOULD HEAR ME!_] I wish to have a fair and full hearing: I am grievously accused; and have no proper opportunity of clearing myself, and establishing my own innocence. _B...
O THAT ONE WOULD HEAR ME! - This refers undoubtedly to God. It is, literally, “Who will give to me one hearing me;” and the wish is that which he has so often expressed, that he might get his cause fa...
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...
OH! Figure of speech _E_ cphonesis. App-6. ADVERSARY. man (Hebrew. _i_. _h_. App-14.) of my quarrel....
OH THAT ONE WOULD HEAR ME, &C.— The clause, _behold, my desire is,_ &c. might be better rendered, _Lo, here my sign or pledge, let the Almighty question me:_ for the Hebrew word signifies, equally, _l...
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...
_OH THAT ONE WOULD HEAR ME! BEHOLD, MY DESIRE IS, THAT THE ALMIGHTY WOULD ANSWER ME, AND THAT MINE ADVERSARY HAD WRITTEN A BOOK._ Job returns to his wish (Job 13:22; Job 19:23). Omit is: 'Behold, my s...
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...
RV 'Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me!) And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!' Job puts his signature to the declaration of...
Job allowed anyone to accuse him (verse 34). And his friends did accuse him (Job 22:4-9). Job did not really want his friends to accuse him. They had no evidence anyway. But there was someone whom Job...
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...
OH THAT ONE WOULD HEAR ME! — The rendering noticed in the margin is probably the right one — _Oh that I had one to hear me! Lo, here is my mark! i.e.,_ my signature, my declaration, which I am ready t...
מִ֤י יִתֶּן ־לִ֨י ׀ שֹׁ֘מֵ֤עַֽ לִ֗י הֶן ־תָּ֭
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...
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my (a) desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book. (a) This is a sufficient token of my righteousness, that God is...
_He himself. Hebrew, "my adversary would write a book." His very accusation would establish my cause, provided he adhered to the truth. (Calmet) --- I would carry it about as a trophy. (Haydock) --- A...
(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...
OH, THAT ONE WOULD HEAR ME!.... Or, "who will give me a hearer?" l Oh, that I had one! not a nearer of him as a teacher and instructor of many, as he had been, Job 4:3; or only to hear what he had del...
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book. Ver. 35. _Oh that one would hear me_] _Quis det mihi auscultantem m...
_O that one would hear me!_ O that I might have my cause heard by any just and impartial judge! _Behold, my desires_, &c. So the Vulgate and the Targum understand תוי, _tavi_, here, deriving it from א...
Job's Appeal to be Heard...
Oh, that one would hear me! namely, as he here asserted his innocence, for his complaint had been all along that God paid no attention to his crying. BEHOLD, MY DESIRE IS THAT THE ALMIGHTY WOULD ANSWE...
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...
BEHOLD, MY DESIRE, THAT THE ALMIGHTY WOULD ANSWER ME: Or, behold my sign is that the Almighty will answer me...
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...
OH THAT ONE WOULD HEAR ME! Oh that I might have my cause heard by any just and impartial judge! THAT THE ALMIGHTY WOULD ANSWER ME, i.e. answer my desire herein; either by hearing me himself, or by app...
Job 31:35 Oh H5414 (H8799) hear H8085 (H8802) mark H8420 Almighty H7706 answer H6030 (H8799) Prosecutor...
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—NOTE ON JOB 31:35 Job wishes once again for an answer regarding his offenses (see vv. Job 31:13). Then he could give AN ACCOUNT OF ALL MY STEPS to the One who numbers them
_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 13:21; Job 13:22; Job 13:24; Job 13:3; Job 17:3;...
Had written — Had given me his charge written in a book or paper, as the manner was in judicial proceedings. This shews that Job did not live, before letters were in use. And undoubtedly the first let...