Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Job 31:24
If I have made gold my hope That is, the matter of my hope and trust, expecting safety and happiness from it, and placing my chief joy in the increase of my riches.
If I have made gold my hope That is, the matter of my hope and trust, expecting safety and happiness from it, and placing my chief joy in the increase of my riches.
Verse Job 31:24. _GOLD MY HOPE_] For the meaning of זהב _zahab_, polished gold, and כתם _kethem_, stamped gold, see on Job 28:15....
IF I HAVE MADE GOLD MY HOPE - That is, if I have put my trust in gold rather than in God; if I have fixed my affections with idolatrous attachment on riches rather than on my Maker. Job here introduce...
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...
DISCOURSE: 483 SPIRITUAL IDOLATRY Job 31:24; Job 31:28. If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; if I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine...
d. He did not trust in wealth nor in heavenly bodies. (Job 31:24-28) TEXT 31:24-28 24 IF I HAVE MADE GOLD MY HOPE, And have said to the fine gold, _Thou art_ my confidence; 25 If I have rejoiced...
_IF I HAVE MADE GOLD MY HOPE, OR HAVE SAID TO THE FINE GOLD, THOU ART MY CONFIDENCE;_ Job asserts his freedom from trust in money (1 Timothy 6:17). Here he turns to his duty toward God, as before be h...
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...
Money becomes like a false god for many people. They think that money can rescue them from any trouble. And they would do anything to get more money. See Matthew 6:24 and 1 Timothy 6:10. Job had been...
IF I HAVE MADE GOLD MY HOPE. — He here refers to the admonition of Eliphaz (Job 22:23), and declares that such had not been his practice....
אִם ־שַׂ֣מְתִּי זָהָ֣ב כִּסְלִ֑י וְ֝ לַ †...
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...
Fine _obrizo. Hebrew cethem, chap. xxviii. 15. (Haydock)_...
(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...
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 MADE GOLD MY HOPE,.... Job here purges himself from idolatry in a figurative sense, as he afterwards does from it, taken in a literal sense; for covetousness is idolatry, and a covetous man...
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence; Ver. 24. _If I have made gold my hope_] The Seventy read, _Si posui aurum in coniugmm meum; _ signifying the cove...
If I have made gold my hope, putting his trust in it, OR HAVE SAID TO THE FINE GOLD, THOU ART MY CONFIDENCE;...
JOB RECOUNTS HIS BLAMELESS CONDUCT...
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...
Job denies that he had placed his trust in money or possessions (Matthew 6:19-21). He was not trying to serve God and mammon (Matthew 6:24). He was wealthy, but he did not worship or place his confide...
24-32 Job protests, 1. That he never set his heart upon the wealth of this world. How few prosperous professors can appeal to the Lord, that they have not rejoiced because their gains were great! Thr...
MY HOPE, i.e. the matter of my hope and trust, placing my chief joy and satisfaction in worldly wealth, expecting safety and happiness from it. Compare PSALMS 62:10....
Job 31:24 made H7760 (H8804) gold H2091 hope H3689 said H559 (H8804) gold H3800 confidence H4009...
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...
_If I have made gold my hope._ ON THE LOVE OF MONEY How universal is it among those who are in pursuit of wealth to make gold their hope; and, among those who are in possession of wealth, to make fin...
_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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 31:24 Job has guarded against the idolatry of trusting in the wealth that God has provided rather than trusting in God himself. He has also avoided the idolatry of worshiping what God...
_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 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:17; Colossians 3:5; Deuteronomy 8:12;...