Chapter 17:
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Job 17
Job still bemoans himself, ver. 1-7. Encourages good men to
hold on their way, ver. 8, 9. Declares he looks for no ease but in
the grave, ver. 10-16. Job in this chapter suddenly passes from
one thing to another as is usual for men in much trouble.
Verse 1. The graves - He speaks of the sepulchres of his fathers, to
which he must be gathered. The graves where they are laid, are
ready for me also. Whatever is unready, the grave is ready for us:
it is a bed soon made. And if the grave be ready for us, it concerns
us, to be ready for the grave.
Verse 2. Are not - Do not my friends, instead of comforting, mock me?
Thus he returns to what he had said, chap. xvi, 20, and intimates
the justice of his following appeal.
Verse 3. Surety - These words contain, an humble desire to God that he
would be his surety, or appoint him a surety who should maintain
his righteous cause against his opposers. Strike hands - Be surety
to me; whereof that was the usual gesture.
Verse 4. Hid - Thou hast blinded the minds of my friends: therefore I
desire a more wise and able judge. Therefore - Thou wilt not give
them the victory over me in this contest, but wilt make them
ashamed of their confidence.
Verse 7. As a shadow - I am grown so poor and thin, that I am not to be
called a man, but the shadow of a man.
Verse 8. Astonied - At the depth and mysteriousness of God's
judgments, which fall on innocent men, while the worst of men
prosper. Yet - Notwithstanding all these sufferings of good men,
and the astonishment which they cause, he shall the more
zealously oppose those hypocrites, who make these strange
providences of God an objection to religion.
Verse 10. Come - And renew the debate, as I see you are resolved to do.
Verse 11. My days - The days of my life. I am a dying man, and
therefore the hopes you give me of the bettering of my condition,
are vain. Purposes - Which I had in my prosperous days,
concerning myself and children.
Verse 12. They - My thoughts so incessantly pursue and disturb me, that
I can no more sleep in the night, than in the day. The light - The
day-light, which often gives some comfort to men in misery,
seems to be gone as soon as it is begun. Darkness - Because of my
grievous pains and torments which follow me by day as well as by
night.
Verse 13. Wait - For deliverance, I should be disappointed; for I am
upon the borders of the grave, I expect no rest but in the dark
grave, for which therefore I prepare myself. I endeavour to make
it easy, by keeping my conscience pure, by seeing Christ lying in
this bed, (so turning it into a bed of spices) and by looking beyond
it to the resurrection.
Verse 14. Corruption - Hebrew. to the pit of corruption, the grave.
Father - I am near a-kin to thee, and thou wilt receive and keep me
in thy house, as parents do their children.
Verse 15. Hope - The happiness you would have me expect.
Verse 16. They - My hopes, of which he spake in the singular number,
ver. 15, which he here changes into the plural, as is usual in these
poetical books. Bars - Into the innermost parts of the pit: my
hopes are dying, and will be buried in my grave. We must shortly
be in the dust, under the bars of the pit, held fast there, 'till the
general resurrection. All good men, if they cannot agree now will
there rest together. Let the foresight of this cool the heat of all
contenders, and moderate the disputers of this world.
Chapter 17:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Esther Psalms
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