Job 32:19

_BEHOLD, MY BELLY IS AS WINE WHICH HATH NO VENT; IT IS READY TO BURST LIKE NEW BOTTLES._ Belly - bosom, from which the words of orientalists, in speaking, seem to come more than with us: they speak gutturally. 'Like (new) wine (in fermentation) without a vent,' to work itself off-literally, 'is not opened.' New wine is kept in new goatskin bottles. This fittingly applies to the young Elihu, as contrasted with the old friends (Matthew 9:17, "Neither do me put now wine into old bottles: else the bottles break ... but they put new wine into new bottles")....

15-22 If we are sure that the Spirit of God suggested what we are about to say, still we ought to refrain, till it comes to our turn to speak. God is the God of order, not of confusion. It is great refreshment to a good man, to speak for the glory of the Lord, and to edify others. And the more we consider the majesty of God, as our Maker, and the more we dread his wrath and justice, the less shall we sinfully fear or flatter men. Could we set the wrath Lord always before us, in his mercies and his terrors, we should not be moved from doing our duty in whatever we are called to do....

Verse Job 32:19. _MY BELLY IS AS WINE_ WHICH _HATH NO VENT_] New wine in a state of effervescence. _LIKE NEW BOTTLES._] _Bottles_, or rather _bags_, made of _goat-skins_. The head and shanks being cut off, the animal is _cased_ out of the skin. The skin is then properly dressed; the _anus_ and four shank holes properly tied up; and an aperture left at the neck or in some other place for the liquor to be poured in, and drawn out. One of these now lies before me, well tanned, and beautifully ornamented, and capable of holding many gallons. They are used, not only to carry wine and water, but for butter, and also for various _dry goods_. I have mentioned this in another place. When the wine is in a state of fermentation, and the skin has no vent, these bottles or _bags_ are ready to _burst_; and if they be...

BEHOLD, MY BELLY IS AS WINE WHICH HATH NO VENT - Margin, as in Hebrew, “is not opened” - לאיפתח _lo'_ _yipâthach_. The repherence is to a bottle, in which there is no opening, or no vent phor the phermenting wine to work itselph ophph. It is usual to leave a small hole in barrels and casks when wine, cider, or beer is phermenting. This is necessary in order to prevent the cask phrom bursting. Elihu compares himselph to a bottle in which new wine bad been put, and where there was no vent phor it, and when in consequence it was ready to burst. That new wine is here intended is apparent phrom the connection, and has been so understood by the ancient versions. So Jerome renders it, _Mustum_, must, or new wine. The Septuagint, ἀσκὸς γλεύκους ζέων δεδέυενος _askos_ _gleukous_ _zeōn_ _dedemenos_ - “a bottle filled with sweet wine

EXPOSITION A new personage is now introduced upon the scene, who speaks in a new style and almost in a new language. No previous mention has been made of him; no subsequent notice is taken of his arguments; and nothing is said of him in the historical section wherewith the work concludes (Job 42:7). It is therefore scarcely surprising that some exception has been taken to the genuineness of the entire passage (Job 32-37), or that it has been regarded by many excellent critics as an interpolation into the Book of Job, made by one who was not the original author, at a date considerably later than the rest of tile composition. A modification of this extreme view is suggested by M. Renan, who thinks that the original author may have added the passage in his old age. This view is entitled to consideration. The subject has been discussed at some length in the Introduction, so that no mor

BEHOLD, MY BELLY [IS] AS WINE, [WHICH] HATH NO VENT,.... Or, "is not opened" a, like a bottle of wine, as Ben Gersom, which is stopped close, and the wine in it new; which is most apt to ferment, and should have vent given it; so the Targum, "as new wine, which is not opened:'' in the same manner Jarchi and Bar Tzemach interpret it; in these words Elihu illustrates, by a metaphor taken from new wine put into bottles and tightly stopped, what he had before more literally and properly expressed, and so in the following clause: IT IS READY TO BURST LIKE NEW BOTTLES; or perhaps it may be better rendered, "like bottles of new wine" b; for new bottles are not so apt to burst as old ones, and especially when they have new wine in them; the bottles of the ancients, and in the eastern countries, being made of skin, which better agrees with what our Lord says,...

CHAPTER S 32--33:7 _ 1. Elihu introduced (Job 32:1)_ 2. I waited, but now must speak (Job 32:6) 3. His address to Job (Job 33:1) Job 32:1. As Elihu had listened to the different addresses his wrath was stirred up. His name is very suggestive. Elihu means “my God is He”; Barachel--”the Blessed God”; the Buzite, “the rejected One” of Ram, and Ram means “exalted.” These are names which find their fullest application in the person of our Lord, whom Elihu in his mediatorial work represents. But why was his wrath kindled? Because Job justified himself rather than God and because Job's friends had found no solution of the problem, yet they c

If the friends have nothing to say, that is no reason for Elihu's silence. He is full of words, and must give them vent. The fear of God will prevent his showing partiality....

WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27. BOTTLES. skin bottles; which, if fermentation is not completed, sometimes burst....

Turning from the three friends Elihu seems to speak in soliloquy and present to his own mind the singular situation: the three friends are discomfited before Job and reduced to silence; this should not be; therefore he will express his convictions. His breast is filled with thoughts and emotions that will not be repressed: he must speak, that he may find relief. And he will speak fearlessly and in sincerity, not regarding the person of any man....