THEN LET ME SOW, AND LET ANOTHER EAT - This is the imprecation which he invokes, in case he had been guilty in this respect. He consented to sow his fields, and let others enjoy the harvest. The expre...
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...
Solemn declaration that neither in him nor in his conduct was there justification for the change, and he is ready to face God (Job 31:1-40) a. He was not lustful. (Job 31:1-8) TEXT 31:1-8 1 I MADE...
_THEN LET ME SOW, AND LET ANOTHER EAT; YEA, LET MY OFFSPRING BE ROOTED OUT._ Apodosis to Job 31:5; Job 31:7: the curses which he imprecates on himself, if he had done these things (Leviticus 26:16; co...
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...
An evil person does not deserve success. JOB’S ATTITUDE WITH REGARD TO SEX V9 I have not decided to have sex with another man’s wife. And I have not tried to have sex with my neighbour’s wife. V10...
אֶ֭זְרְעָה וְ אַחֵ֣ר יֹאכֵ֑ל וְֽ צֶאֱצָאַ֥י י
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...
[Then] let me sow, and let another (f) eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. (f) According to the curse of the law, (Deuteronomy 28:33)....
(2) For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? (3) Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? (4) Doth...
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...
[THEN] LET ME SOW, AND ANOTHER EAT,.... If what he had before said was not true; but he had turned out of the way of righteousness, and walked after the sight of his eyes, and the mammon of unrighteou...
Job 31:8 [Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. Ver. 8. _Then let me sow, and another eat_] God loves to retaliate; and let him do so to me, according to that he...
_If my step hath turned out of the way_ If I have knowingly and willingly swerved from the way of truth and justice, which God hath prescribed to me; _and my heart walked after mine eyes_ A strong and...
then let me sow and let another eat, enjoying the fruit of his hard labors; YEA, LET MY OFFSPRING BE ROOTED OUT, the products of the soil as planted by him be destroyed. Cf Leviticus 26:16; Amos 9:14;...
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...
1-8 Job did not speak the things here recorded by way of boasting, but in answer to the charge of hypocrisy. He understood the spiritual nature of God's commandments, as reaching to the thoughts and...
Let strangers enjoy the fruit of my labours, according to God's curse, LEVITICUS 26:16 DEUTERONOMY 28:30. MY OFFSPRING; as this word is used, Job 5:25,...
Job 31:8 sow H2232 (H8799) another H312 eat H398 (H8799) harvest H6631 out H8327 (H8792) let me -...
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...
_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’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...
Deuteronomy 28:30; Deuteronomy 28:38; Deuteronomy 28:51; Job 15:30;...
Increase — All my plants, and fruits, and improvements....