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JFB = Jamieson, Fausset, Brown Commentary JFB = Introduction AC = Adam Clarke Comentary AC = Chronology by Adam Clarke OU = OUtline of Job
• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 2. In the first clause he owns God to be omnipotent over nature, as contrasted with his own feebleness, which God had proved (Job 40:15; 41:34); in the second, that God is supremely just (which, in order to be governor of the world, He must needs be) in all His dealings, as contrasted with his own vileness (Job 42:6), and incompetence to deal with the wicked as a just judge (Job 40:8-14).• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 3. I am the man! Job in God's own words (Job 38:2) expresses his deep and humble penitence. God's word concerning our guilt should be engraven on our hearts and form the groundwork of our confession. Most men in confessing sin palliate rather than confess. Job in omitting "by words" (Job 38:2), goes even further than God's accusation. Not merely my words, but my whole thoughts and ways were "without knowledge."• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 4. When I said, "Hear," &c., Job's demand (Job 13:22) convicted him of being "without knowledge." God alone could speak thus to Job, not Job to God: therefore he quotes again God's words as the groundwork of retracting his own foolish words.• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 5. hearing of the ear-- (Ps 18:44, Margin). Hearing and seeing are often in antithesis (Job 29:11; Ps 18:8).• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 6. myself--rather "I abhor," and retract the rash speeches I made against thee (Job 42:3, 4) [UMBREIT].• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 7. to Eliphaz--because he was the foremost of the three friends; their speeches were but the echo of his.• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 8. seven--(See Introduction). The number offered by the Gentile prophet (Nu 23:1). Job plainly lived before the legal priesthood, &c. The patriarchs acted as priests for their families; and sometimes as praying mediators (Ge 20:17), thus foreshadowing the true Mediator (1Ti 2:5), but sacrifice accompanies and is the groundwork on which the mediation rests.• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 9. The forgiving spirit of Job foreshadows the love of Jesus Christ and of Christians to enemies (Mt 5:44; Lu 23:34; Ac 7:60; 16:24, 28, 30, 31).• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 10. turned . . . captivity--proverbial for restored, or amply indemnified him for all he had lost (Eze 16:53; Ps 14:7; Ho 6:11). Thus the future vindication of man, body and soul, against Satan (Job 1:9-12), at the resurrection (Job 19:25-27), has its earnest and adumbration in the temporal vindication of Job at last by Jehovah in person.• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 11. It was Job's complaint in his misery that his "brethren," were "estranged" from him (Job 19:13); these now return with the return of his prosperity (Pr 14:20; 19:6, 7); the true friend loveth at all times (Pr 17:17; 18:24). "Swallow friends leave in the winter and return with the spring" [HENRY].• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 12. Probably by degrees, not all at once.• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 13. The same number as before, Job 1:2; perhaps by a second wife; in Job 19:17 his wife is last mentioned.• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 14. Names significant of his restored prosperity (Ge 4:25; 5:29).• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 15. inheritance among . . . brethren--An unusual favor in the East to daughters, who, in the Jewish law, only inherited, if there were no sons (Nu 27:8), a proof of wealth and unanimity.• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 16. The Septuagint makes Job live a hundred seventy years after his calamity, and two hundred forty in all. This would make him seventy at the time of his calamity, which added to a hundred forty in Hebrew text makes up two hundred ten; a little more than the age (two hundred five) of Terah, father of Abraham, perhaps his contemporary. Man's length of life gradually shortened, till it reached threescore and ten in Moses' time (Ps 90:10).• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU OU Index Verse 17. full of days--fully sated and contented with all the happiness that life could give him; realizing what Eliphaz had painted as the lot of the godly (Job 5:26; Ps 91:16; Ge 25:8; 35:29). The Septuagint adds, "It is written, that he will rise again with those whom the Lord will raise up." Compare Mt 27:52, 53, from which it perhaps was derived spuriously.
• Key
JFB = Jamieson, Fausset, Brown Commentary JFB = Introduction AC = Adam Clarke Comentary AC = Chronology by Adam Clarke OU = OUtline of Job Additional Resources
• Gill's Exposition • Geneva Study Bible • Jamieson, Fausset, Brown • Matthew Henry Complete • Matthew Henry Concise • Treasury of Scripture • Wesley's Explanatory Notes
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INDEX OF JOB
- 1) ABSTRACT OF THE BOOK OF JOB ~ Job 1 Alternative Format
- 2) A COMPENDIUM OF THE BOOK OF JOB ~ Job 2 Alternative Format
- 3) HAMARTIOLGY OF THE BOOK OF JOB ~ Job 3 Alternative Format
- 4) SOTERIOLOGY OF THE BOOK OF JOB ~ Job 4 Alternative Format
- 5) SATANOLOGY OF THE BOOK OF JOB ~ Job 5 Alternative Format
- 6) ESCHATOLOGY OF THE BOOK OF JOB ~ Job 6 Alternative Format
- 7) BIBLIOGRAPHY ~ Alternative Bibliography
- 8) Dictionary of Terms ~ Alternate Dictionary Job
- 9) Maps Of The Bible
- 9) "Broken" ~ A Must Read!
- 10) Tools For Biblical Research
- Study Adapted From
~ Studies In The Book Of Job"
by Dr. Walter G. Yeager
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