_SATAN AGAIN CALUMINATES JOB BEFORE GOD, WHOSE BODY GOD PERMITS HIM TO AFFLICT, BUT NOT SO AS TO TAKE AWAY HIS LIFE. JOB IS SMITTEN BY SATAN WITH SORE BOILS. HE REPROVES HIS WIFE. HIS THREE FRIENDS, ELIPHAZ, BILDAD, AND ZOPHAR, COME TO MOURN WITH HIM._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 2:1. AGAIN THERE... [ Continue Reading ]
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 any signal guilt to draw upon him so signal a calamity: not but that there might be other very weigh... [ Continue Reading ]
SKIN FOR SKIN— A proverbial expression, to denote the great value in which life is held; insomuch that a man, to preserve it, would suffer even his skin to be torn off. It may signify also, that a man, in order to save his life, would willingly suffer himself to be stripped of all his fortunes. The... [ Continue Reading ]
HE WILL CURSE THEE— _Blaspheme thee._... [ Continue Reading ]
SO WENT SATAN FORTH— It has been objected, I. That it does not seem likely that Satan should appear in such good company as the sons of God; nor, II. That God should permit him to afflict Job in this manner, only to satisfy the wicked sycophant that Job was a man of integrity. As to the first object... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TOOK HIM A POTSHERD, &C.— It is plain that the disease of Job was cuticular, says Dr. Mede; and it is as certain that the bodies of the Hebrews were (in those hot countries) very liable to ulcers of the skin; upon which account, learned men think it was, that they were forbidden the eating of... [ Continue Reading ]
DOST THOU STILL RETAIN THINE INTEGRITY? &C.— The word תם _tam,_ is the same in chap. Job 27:5 and there rendered _integrity. God forbid that I should justify you,_ says Job, in answer to the uncharitable suspicions of his friends; _till I die I will not remove my integrity from me:_ which, it is evi... [ Continue Reading ]
ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE, &C.— Eliphaz was the son of Esau, and Teman of Eliphaz; Genesis 36:10. This Eliphaz, no doubt, was of this family. Teman certainly was a city of Edom, Jeremiah 7:20. Ezekiel 25:13. Amos 1:11. _Bildad the Shuhite;_ Shuah was the son of Abraham by Keturah, whose posterity is reck... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THEY SAT DOWN WITH HIM UPON THE GROUND— The circumstance of Job's lying in the ashes, and his three friends with him, for seven days and seven nights together, without speaking, though it has the same poetical aspect with some other circumstances in the history, yet might be literally true, and a... [ Continue Reading ]