Job 10:1
I WILL LEAVE, etc.] RV 'I will give free course to my complaint.'... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL LEAVE, etc.] RV 'I will give free course to my complaint.'... [ Continue Reading ]
JOB'S SECOND SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-7. Job seeks the reason of his trial, and protests against God's treatment as inconsistent with the natural relations between Creator and created, and with God's knowledge of his innocence and inability to escape Him.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORK OF THINE HANDS] i.e. man, God's creature. 4-6. 'Is God's judgment liable to mistakes like that of frail man' (EYES OF FLESH), 'or is His time so short that He is in a hurry to find Job guilty and to punish him?' Observe that Job cannot altogether give up his conviction that God must be rea... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU] RV 'although thou.' 8-17. Job dwells on God's past goodness. Does he not owe to Him his existence and his preservation up to the present? Yet He had apparently purposed all along to destroy him in the end. 10, 11. The conception and growth of the infant. CURDLED ME] made him take solid form.... [ Continue Reading ]
FENCED ME] RV 'knit me together.'... [ Continue Reading ]
VISITATION] RM 'care.'... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THESE, etc.] RV 'Yet thou didst hide these things,' etc. I KNOW THAT THIS _is_ WITII THEE] rather, 'I know that these things were with thee.' Job concludes that even from his childhood God had purposed to afflict him, making him happy so that his misery might be deeper by contrast. 14, 15. Whet... [ Continue Reading ]
_If_ I BE RIGHTEOUS, etc.] 'Were I righteous I must not lift up my head as an innocent man.' _I am_ FULL, etc.] RV 'being filled with ignominy, and looking upon my affliction.' But a slight correction gives the very much better sense, 'drunken with affliction.'... [ Continue Reading ]
MARVELLOUS] in his persecutions; a sorry sequel to the marvel of creation (Job 38:39).... [ Continue Reading ]
THY WITNESSES] Job's afflictions, which seem to witness to his guilt. CHANGES AND WAR, etc.] RM 'Host after host is against me.' 18-22. Job begs for a little respite before his death: cp. Psalms 39:13. Observe how appeal follows hard on accusation. 21, 22. Note the dreary, hopeless conception of t... [ Continue Reading ]