_A.M. 2484. B.C. 1520._ Job thoroughly humbles himself before God, Job 42:1. God reproves his friends, for whom Job intercedes, and God accepts them, Job 42:7. God blesses and restores Job to his prosperity, Job 42:10. His age and death, Job 42:16; Job 42:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
_I know thou canst do every thing_ Job here subscribes to God's unlimited power, knowledge, and dominion, to prove which was the scope of God's discourse out of the whirlwind. And his judgment being convinced of these, his conscience also was convinced of his own folly in speaking so irreverently co... [ Continue Reading ]
_Who is he that hideth counsel?_ What am I, that I should be guilty of such madness? _Therefore have I uttered that I understood not_ Because my mind was without knowledge, therefore my speech was ignorant and foolish; _things which I knew not_ I have spoken foolishly and unadvisedly of things far a... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hear, I beseech thee_ Hear and accept my humble and penitent confession. _I will demand of thee_ Hebrew, אשׁאלךְ, _eshaleka, interrogabo te, I will inquire, ask_, or _make my petition to thee._ I will no more dispute the matter with thee, but beg information from thee. The words which God had utter... [ Continue Reading ]
_But now mine eye seeth thee_ “It is plain,” says Dr. Dodd, “that there is some privilege intended here that Job had never enjoyed before, and which he calls a sight of God. He had heard of him by the _hearing of the ear_, or the tradition delivered down from his forefathers; but he had now a clear... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wherefore I abhor myself_, &c. The more we see of the glory and majesty of God, the more we shall see of the vileness and odiousness of sin, and of ourselves because of sin; and the more we shall abase and abhor ourselves for it; _and repent in dust and ashes_ Namely, sitting in dust and ashes. Job... [ Continue Reading ]
_After the Lord had spoken these words unto Job_ Jehovah, having confounded all the false reasonings of Job, and sufficiently humbled his pride, now proceeds to the condemnation of the principle upon which his three friends had proceeded in all their speeches, which principle he declares not to be r... [ Continue Reading ]
_Therefore take now seven bullocks_, &c. To make an atonement for what you have said amiss. It seems they were each of them to bring seven bullocks and seven rams, which were to be wholly offered up to God as a burnt-offering; for before, the law of Moses, all sacrifices, even those of atonement, ap... [ Continue Reading ]
_So Eliphaz, &c., did as the Lord commanded_ Showing their repentance by their submission to God, and to Job for God's sake, and by taking shame to themselves. _The Lord also accepted Job_ Both for his friends and for himself, as the next verse explains it. And as Job prayed and offered sacrifice fo... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the Lord turned the captivity of Job_ Brought him out of that state of bondage in which he had so long been held by Satan, and out of all his distresses and miseries. The words may be rendered, _The Lord brought back Job's captivity;_ that is, as some understand it, the persons and things that... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then came unto him all his brethren_ “The author here presents us with a striking view of human friendship. His brethren, who in the time of his affliction kept at a distance from him; his kins-folks, who ceased to know him; his familiar friends, who had forgotten him; and his acquaintance, who had... [ Continue Reading ]
_So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job_ Not only with spiritual, but also with temporal blessings. _For he had fourteen thousand sheep_, &c. Just double to what they were, Job 1:3. This is a remarkable instance of the extent of the divine providence to things that seem minute as this, the exact... [ Continue Reading ]
_And he called the name of the first, Jemima_ Which the LXX., and Vulgate, as derived from יום, _jom_, interpret _day._ The Targum is, Her beauty was like that of the day. _The name of the second, Kezia_ Because she was precious like cassia, says the Targum. The meaning probably is, _Pleasant as cas... [ Continue Reading ]
_In all the land were no women found so fair_, &c. In the Old Testament we often find women praised for their beauty, but never in the New, because the beauty of holiness is brought to a much clearer light by the gospel. _Their father gave them inheritance._ &c. Gave his daughters a share, and, poss... [ Continue Reading ]
_After this Job lived a hundred and forty years_ Some conjecture that he was seventy when his troubles came upon him: if so, his age was double, as his other possessions. _And saw his sons, and his sons' sons_ Though his children were not doubled to him, yet in his children's children they were more... [ Continue Reading ]