Job's Past Greatness and Happiness
Job mournfully recalls the days of God's favour, and the prosperity and honour he once enjoyed. In this chapter we have the picture of a great and worthy chieftain looked up to and respected by all. It confirms the description of Job's importance in Job 1.
CHAPTER XXIX _Job laments his present condition, and gives an affecting_ _account of his former prosperity, having property in_ _abundance, being surrounded by a numerous family, and enjoying_ _ev...
MOREOVER, JOB CONTINUED HIS PARABLE - See the notes at Job 27:1. It is probable that Job had paused to see if anyone would attempt a reply. As his friends were silent, he resumed his remarks and went...
CHAPTER 29 _ 1. His past prosperity and honors (Job 29:1)_ 2. The good works he did (Job 29:11) Job 29:1. The words spoken by Job were wholesome words, showing that his mind was moving in another ch...
JOB 29. JOB'S FORMER HAPPY DAYS. Job 29:1. Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means intimacy (_cf._ Psalms 25:14)....
MOREOVER. And. CONTINUED HIS PARABLE: i.e. again took up his impressive discourse. This is Job's last address, corresponding with his first. See the Structure on p. 669....
_JOB SETS FORTH, IN A PATHETIC MANNER, THE HAPPINESS OF HIS FORMER PROSPEROUS STATE._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 29:1. MOREOVER, JOB CONTINUED HIS PARABLE_— Job now goes on to finish his defence; an...
D. THE SOLILOQUY OF A SUFFERER (Job 29:1, Job 31:40) 1. Reminiscencehis former happy life (Job 29:1-25) a. The outward aspect (Job 29:1-10) TEXT 29:1-
_MOREOVER JOB CONTINUED HIS PARABLE, AND SAID,_ Job pauses for a reply. None being made, he proceeds to illustrate the mysteriousness of God's dealings, as set forth (Job 28:1) by his own case....
Job had a very successful life before his troubles began: • God was protecting Job (Job 1:10). And God was providing for Job. • Job became rich (Job 1:3) because God gave many possessions to Job (Jo...
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 29 JOB DESCRIBES HIS LIFE B...
XXIX. (1) JOB CONTINUED HIS PARABLE. — In this chapter he recounts wistfully his past happiness. In his case it was indeed not without cause, though in point of fact he was _then_ passing through a ti...
וַ יֹּ֣סֶף אִ֭יֹּוב שְׂאֵ֥ת מְשָׁלֹ֗ו וַ יֹּא
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 BITTER MEMORY OF THE HAPPY PAST Job 29:1 How many thousands, looking back on the beautiful dawn of life which has become overcast, have uttered the thought of the opening words of this chapter! T...
Job now moved a step forward in his reply. He was still without a solution. That of his friends he utterly repudiated. In order to prepare the way for the utterance of a solemn oath of innocence, he f...
(1) В¶ Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, (2) Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; (3) When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked...
CONTENTS Job continueth his discourse yet farther, through the whole of this chapter. He draws a pathetic picture of his former prosperity....
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...
MOREOVER, JOB CONTINUED HIS PARABLE,.... Or "added to take [it] up" q, that is, he took it up again, and went on with his discourse; he made a pause for awhile, waiting to observe whether any of his t...
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, Ver. 1. _Moreover Job continued his parable_] Or, his sentence, as Tremellius rendereth it, his sententious and elegant oration, his _aureum flumen orati...
Job now goes on to finish his defence, and in order to it he first sets forth his condition in the time of his prosperity, against which he places, by way of contrast, his present unhappy situation, d...
Moreover, Job continued his parable, his proverbial sayings, AND SAID,...
JOB DESCRIBES HIS FORMER PROSPERITY...
JOB'S PAST GREATNESS In this chapter Job dwells upon the honour and dignity that had been his in the past. While he was sincere in what he said, and no doubt spoke truthfully, yet there is far too muc...
CONTINUED: _ Heb._ added to take up...
Back then God watched over him, and illuminated his path. Note that the first thing Job misses is his close fellowship with God. "The sense that God had now left him was more painful than his other mi...
1-6 Job proceeds to contrast his former prosperity with his present misery, through God's withdrawing from him. A gracious soul delights in God's smiles, not in the smiles of this world. Four things...
JOB CHAPTER 29 Job's former prosperity in God's favour, JOB 29:1. His honour and repute, JOB 29:6, for his charity, JOB 29:12, and punishing the wicked,...
Job 29:1 Job H347 continued H3254 (H8686) H5375 (H8800) discourse H4912 said H559 (H8799) continued - Heb. add
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He rehearses the story of his life. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: A gracious soul delights in God's smiles, not the smiles of the world, although virtu...
Job 29:3. When _his candle shined upon my head;_ that is, when the light of his countenance shone upon me, in every form of patriarchal prosperity. This figure seems to be borrowed from the lights in...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 29:1 Chapters Job 29:1 conclude the dialogues with Job’s reflections on his current and future state....
_JOB’S RETROSPECT_ Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends, and shows that his complaints were sufficiently well-g...
EXPOSITION JOB 29:1 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man and the infinite knowledge of God, Job turns to another contra...
Moreover Job continued (Job 29:1) He's got a lot to say. Bildad has run out, so Job thought, "I'll just keep going on." And now it's sort of a lament of the days before all of his afflictions. Lookin...
Job 27:1...