Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 31:21
If I have lifted (o) up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
(o) To oppress him and to do him harm.
If I have lifted (o) up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
(o) To oppress him and to do him harm.
Verse Job 31:21. _IF I HAVE LIFTED UP MY HAND AGAINST THE FATHERLESS_] I have at no time opposed the orphan, nor given, in behalf of the rich and powerful, a decision against the poor, _when I saw my...
IF I HAVE LIFTED UP MY HAND AGAINST THE FATHERLESS - That is, if I have taken advantage of my rank, influence, and power, to oppress and injure him. WHEN I SAW MY HELP IN THE GATE - The gate of a city...
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...
HELP. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for those who would he on his side....
WHEN I SAW MY HELP IN THE GATE— _When I saw myself superior in the gate._ Houbigant. That is, superior in authority, sufficient to influence those judges, whose usual place of hearing causes was in th...
b. Was upright in his domestic relations (Job 31:9-15) c. He was kind and neighborly. (Job 31:16-23) TEXT 31:9-23 9 IF MY HEART HATH BEEN ENTICED ONTO A WOMAN, And I have laid wait at my neighbo...
_IF I DID DESPISE THE CAUSE OF MY MANSERVANT OR OF MY MAIDSERVANT, WHEN THEY CONTENDED WITH ME;_ Job affirms his freedom from unfairness toward his servants: from harshness and oppression toward the...
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...
WHEN I SAW MY HELP IN THE GATE] Job could have counted on the judges supporting his side of the question. GATE] see on Job 29:7....
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...
Many people today do not think that they should help poor people. And many people are only generous to their own friends and family. But the Bible teaches that we should be generous to other people al...
אִם ־הֲנִיפֹ֣ותִי עַל ־יָתֹ֣ום יָדִ֑י כִּֽי ־
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...
_Gate, in judgment, (Calmet) where I was the supreme judge, (Haydock) and none could resist me._...
(9) В¶ If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; (10) Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. (11) For this is an heino...
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...
IF I HAVE LIFTED UP MY HAND AGAINST THE FATHERLESS,.... Either in a menacing way, threatening what he would do to them; which, from a man of wealth and authority, a civil magistrate, a judge, is very...
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: Ver. 21. _If I have lift up my hand against the fatherless_] That is, against any that are destitute of human helps...
_If I have seen any perish_ When it was in my power to help them. _If his loins have not blessed me_ That is, if my covering his loins hath not given him occasion to bless me, and to pray to God to bl...
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, shaking his fist at the orphan in a violent and threatening manner, WHEN I SAW MY HELP IN THE GATE, believing that he could readily bribe the judges...
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...
16-23 Job's conscience gave testimony concerning his just and charitable behaviour toward the poor. He is most large upon this head, because in this matter he was particularly accused. He was tender...
To smite him with the fist of wickedness, as the phrase is, ISAIAH 58:4; to bring him to the judgment-seat, that under colour of justice I might take away his right, as powerful oppressors use to do,...
Job 31:21 raised H5130 (H8689) hand H3027 fatherless H3490 saw H7200 (H8799) help H5833 gate H8179 lifted
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—NOTE ON JOB 31:16 The law commanded Israelites to care for the POOR, WIDOW, FATHERLESS, and NEEDY ...
_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...
Ezekiel 22:7; Jeremiah 5:28; Job 22:9; Job 24:9; Job 29:12;...
When — When I saw I could influence the judges to do what I pleased....