Chapter 31:
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Job 31
Job's protestation of his innocence, with regard to
wantonness, ver. 1-4. Fraud and injustice, ver. 5-8. Adultery, ver.
9-12. Haughtiness and severity toward his servants, ver. 13-15.
Unmercifulness to the poor, ver. 16-23. Confidence in his wealth,
ver. 24, 25. Idolatry, ver. 26-28. Revenge, ver. 29-31. Neglect of
poor strangers, ver. 32 Hypocrisy, or not reproving others, ver. 33, 34. He wishes God would answer and that his words might be recorded, ver. 35-37. Protests his innocence, as to oppression, ver.
38-40.
Verse 1. I made - So far have I been from any gross wickedness, that I
have abstained from the least occasions and appearances of evil.
Verse 2. For - What recompence may be expected from God for those
who do otherwise. Above - How secretly soever unchaste persons
carry the matter, so that men cannot reprove them, yet there is one
who stands upon an higher place, whence he seeth in what manner
they act.
Verse 5. Walked - Dealt with men. Vanity - With lying, or falsehood.
Deceit - If when I had an opportunity of enriching myself, by
wronging others, I have readily and greedily complied with It.
Verse 6. Let me - I desire nothing more than to have my heart and life
weighed in just balances, and searched out by the all-seeing God.
That God - Or, and he will know; (upon search he will find out:
which is spoken of God after the manner of men:) Mine integrity -
So this is an appeal to God to be witness of his sincerity.
Verse 7. Heart - If I have let my heart loose to covet forbidden things,
which mine eyes have seen: commonly sin enters by the eye into
the heart. A blot - Any unjust gain.
Verse 8. Increase - All my plants, and fruits, and improvements.
Verse 10. Then - Not as if Job desired this; but that if God should give
up his wife to such wickedness, he should acknowledge his justice
in it.
Verse 11. This - Adultery. It is - Hebrew. an iniquity of the Judges;
which belongs to them to take cognizance of, and to punish, even
with death; and that not only by the law of Moses, but even by the
law of nature, as appears from the known laws and customs of the
Heathen nations.
Verse 12. Destruction - Lust is a fire in the soul; it consumes all that is
good there, the convictions, the comforts; and lays the conscience
waste. It consumes the body, consumes the substance, roots out all
the increase. It kindles the fire of God's wrath, which if not
quenched by the blood of Christ, will burn to the lowest hell.
Verse 16. If I - Denied them what they desired of me. To fail - With
tedious expectation of my justice or charity. Job is most large
upon this head, because in this matter Eliphaz had most
particularly accused him.
Verse 18. Youth - As soon as I was capable of managing mine own
affairs. With me - Under my care. A father - With all the diligence
and tenderness of a father. Her - The widow mentioned ver. 16.
From - From my tender years; ever since I was capable of
discerning good and evil.
Verse 19. Perish - When it was in my power to help them.
Verse 21. When - When I saw I could influence the Judges to do what I
pleased.
Verse 23. For - I stood in awe of God and of his judgments. I could not -
I knew myself unable either to oppose his power, or to bear his
wrath. Even good men have need to restrain themselves from sin,
with the fear of Destruction from God. Even when salvation from
God is a comfort to us, yet destruction from God should be a
terror to us. Adam in innocency was awed by a threatning.
Verse 26. I - This place speaks of the worship of the host of heaven, and
especially of the sun and moon, the most eminent and glorious of
that number, which was the most ancient kind of idolatry, and
most frequent in the eastern countries. Shined - In its full strength
and glory.
Verse 27. Kissed - In token of worship, whereof this was a sign.
Verse 28. The judge - The civil magistrate; who being advanced and
protected by God, is obliged to maintain and vindicate his honour,
and consequently to punish idolatry. Denied God - Not directly
but by consequence, because this was to rob God of his
prerogative, by giving to the creature, that worship which is
peculiar to God.
Verse 29. Lift up - Hebrew. stirred up myself to rejoice and insult over
his misery.
Verse 31. If - My domesticks and familiar friends. His flesh - This is
farther confirmation of Job's charitable disposition to his enemy.
Although all who were daily conversant with him, and were
witnesses of his and their carriage, were so zealous in Job's
quarrel, that they protested they could eat their flesh, and could
not be satisfied without. Yet he restrained both them and himself
from executing vengeance upon them.
Verse 33. As Adam - As Adam did in Paradise.
Verse 34. Did I fear - No: all that knew Job knew him to be a man of
resolution, that boldly appeared, spoke and acted, in defense of
religion and justice. He durst not keep silence, or stay within,
when called to speak or act for God. He was not deterred by the
number, or quality, or insults of the injurious, from reproving
them, and doing justice to the injured.
Verse 35. Had written - Had given me his charge written in a book or
paper, as the manner was in judicial proceedings. This shews that
Job did not live, before letters were in use. And undoubtedly the
first letters were those wrote on the two tables, by the finger of
God. He wishes, his friends, who charged him with hypocrisy,
would draw up the charge in writing.
Verse 36. Take it - As a trophy or badge of honour.
Verse 37. Him - My judge, or adversary. My steps - The whole course of
my life. A prince - With undaunted courage and confidence.
Verse 38. Cry - Because I have gotten it by fraud or violence.
Verse 39. Without money - Either without paying the price for the land,
or by defrauding my workmen of their wages. Life - Killing them
that I might have undisturbed possession of it, as Ahab did
Naboth.
Chapter 31:
| 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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