PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Job
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 410,186 words · 582 reading sections
Job 15:3
Job 15:3 Ver. 3. Should he reason with unprofitable talk?.... That is, the wise man, such a man as Job; does it become him to talk such idle stuff? that which is false, and foolish, and frothy, that does not minister grace to the hearer, and is not for the use of edifying; as whatever is untrue, unwise, vain, and empt…
204 wordsSECTION 182Job 15:4
Job 15:4 Ver. 4. Yea, thou castest off fear,.... Not of man; a slavish fear of man is to be cast off, because that brings a snare, deters men from their duty, and leads into sin; though there is a fear and reverence of men which ought to be given to them, "fear to whom fear", Ro 13:7; but here the fear of God is meant…
645 wordsSECTION 183Job 15:5
Job 15:5 Ver. 5. For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity,.... Which was in his heart, and so was an evidence against him, and proved him perverse, and made good the above charges exhibited against him: or "thine iniquity teaches thy mouth" {y}; the wickedness that was in his heart prompted his mouth to speak the things …
214 wordsSECTION 184Job 15:6
Job 15:6 Ver. 6. Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I,.... Or shows thee to be a wicked person, guilty of things charged upon thee; out of thine own mouth thou art convicted, there needs no other evidence to be brought against thee, that is sufficient: and thou savest me, and any other, the trouble of passing th…
160 wordsSECTION 185Job 15:7
Job 15:7 Ver. 7. [Art] thou the first man [that] was born?.... The first Adam, who was created in wisdom and knowledge, and had a large share of understanding in things natural, civil, and moral; knew much of God and his perfections, of the works of nature, and of the wisdom and power of God displayed in them; one ins…
323 wordsSECTION 186Job 15:8
Job 15:8 Ver. 8. Hast thou heard the secret of God?.... Or, "in the secret of God" {a}, in his cabinet council, what was said and done there? hast thou stood in the council of God? hast thou been one of his privy council, or counsellors, and been let into all the secrets of God, of his purposes and providence, and int…
517 wordsSECTION 187Job 15:9
Job 15:9 Ver. 9. What knowest thou that we know not?.... Which are pretty near the words of Job to his friends, Job 12:3; and to the same sense is what follows: [what] understandest thou which [is] not in us? in our hearts, minds, and understanding; or among us, which one or other, or all of us, have not: yet all men…
205 wordsSECTION 188Job 15:10
Job 15:10 Ver. 10. With us are both the grayheaded,.... The grayheaded man, or one that is so, it is in the singular number; gray hairs are a sign of old age, and an emblem of wisdom, see Job 12:12; to which words Eliphaz may be thought to refer; Job there suggesting as if wisdom was with him, being an ancient man: a…
474 wordsSECTION 189Job 15:11
Job 15:11 Ver. 11. [Are] the consolations of God small with thee?.... Meaning either those which Eliphaz and his friends had administered, when, upon his repentance and reformation, they promised him great and good things that should befall him and his family, and that his latter end should be greater than his beginni…
457 wordsSECTION 190Job 15:12
Job 15:12 Ver. 12. Why doth thine heart carry thee away?.... To such conceit of thyself, and contempt of others, and even to slight the consolations of God; the heart, being deceitful and wicked, sometimes carries away good men to say and do those things which are unbecoming; and if, in any instance, this was Job's ca…
217 wordsSECTION 191Job 15:13
Job 15:13 Ver. 13. That thou turnest thy spirit against God,.... Not against men, his friends only, but against God himself, being filled with wrath and indignation at him; showing the enmity of his heart unto him, and committing hostilities upon him, stretching out his hand, and strengthening himself against him, run…
79 wordsSECTION 192Job 15:14
Job 15:14 Ver. 14. What [is] man, that he should be clean?.... Frail, feeble, mortal man, or woeful man, as Mr. Broughton renders it; since he is sinful, whereby he is become such a weak and dying creature: this question, as well as the following, is put by way of contempt, and as lessening man in a comparative sense,…
501 wordsSECTION 193Job 15:15
Job 15:15 Ver. 15. Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints,.... In holy men, set apart for himself by his grace, whose sins are expiated by the blood of his Son, and whose hearts are sanctified by his Spirit, and who live holy lives and conversations, as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; these, though he trusts many of the…
7,901 wordsSECTION 194Job 16:1
Job 16:1 INTRODUCTION TO JOB 16 This chapter and the following contain Job's reply to the preceding discourse of Eliphaz, in which he complains of the conversation of his friends, as unprofitable, uncomfortable, vain, empty, and without any foundation, Job 16:1; and intimates that were they in his case and circumstan…
268 wordsSECTION 195Job 16:2
Job 16:2 Ver. 2. I have heard many such things,.... As those Eliphaz has been discoursing of, concerning the punishment of wicked men; many instances of this kind had been reported to him from his preceptors, and from his parents, and which they had had from theirs, as well as Eliphaz had from his; and he had heard th…
624 wordsSECTION 196Job 16:3
Job 16:3 Ver. 3. Shall vain words have an end?.... Or "words of wind" {k}, vain empty words, great swelling words of vanity, mere bubbles that look big, and have nothing in them; here Job retorts what Eliphaz had insinuated concerning him and his words, Job 15:2; and he intimates such worthless discourses should have …
308 wordsSECTION 197Job 16:4
Job 16:4 Ver. 4. I also could speak as ye [do],.... As big words, with as high a tone, with as stiff a neck, and as haughtily and loftily; or "ought I to speak as you do" {m}? that I ought not, nor would you think I ought, if you were in my case; or, being so, "would I speak as you do" {n}? no, I would not, my conscie…
649 wordsSECTION 198Job 16:5
Job 16:5 Ver. 5. [But] I would strengthen you with my mouth,.... Comfort them with the words of his mouth; so God strengthens his people with strength in their souls, when he answers them with good and comfortable words; an angel strengthened Christ as man when in an agony, comforting him, suggesting comfortable thing…
181 wordsSECTION 199Job 16:6
Job 16:6 Ver. 6. Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged,.... Though he spoke to God in prayer, and entreated for some abatement of his sorrows, he got no relief; and though he spoke to himself in soliloquies, his sorrow was not repressed nor lessened; he could not administer comfort to himself in the present case, t…
232 wordsSECTION 200Job 16:7
Job 16:7 Ver. 7. But now he hath made me weary,.... Or "it hath made me weary" {u}, that is, "my grief", as it may be supplied from Job 16:6; or rather God, as appears from the next clause, and from the following verse, where he is manifestly addressed; who by afflicting him had made him weary of the world, and all th…
315 wordsSECTION 201Job 16:8
Job 16:8 Ver. 8. And thou hast filled me with wrinkles,.... Not through old age, but through affliction, which had sunk his flesh, and made furrows in him, so that he looked older than he was, and was made old thereby before his time; see La 3:4; for this is to be understood of his body, for as for his soul, that thro…
204 wordsSECTION 202Job 16:9
Job 16:9 Ver. 9. He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me,.... By whom is meant not Satan, as Jarchi, though he is an enemy to, and an hater of mankind, especially of good men; nor Eliphaz, as others, who had fallen upon Job with a great deal of wrath and fury, tearing his character in pieces, which Job attributed …
833 wordsSECTION 203Job 16:10
Job 16:10 Ver. 10. They have gaped upon me with their mouth,.... Here Job speaks of the instruments which God suffered to use him ill; and he has respect to his friends who came with open mouth against him, loading him with calumnies and reproaches, laying charges to him he was not conscious of, and treating him with …
4,481 wordsSECTION 204Job 17:1
Job 17:1 INTRODUCTION JOB 17 In this chapter Job not only enlarges upon the reason given in the preceding chapter, why he was desirous of an advocate with God, and one to plead his cause with him for him, Job 17:1; but adds other reasons taken from the usage of his friends, from the impossibility of any but a divine …
905 wordsSECTION 205Job 17:2
Job 17:2 Ver. 2. [Are there] not mockers with me?.... Meaning not irreligious persons, such as make a mock at sin, a jest of religion, a laugh at good men, sneer at the doctrines and ordinances of God, and scoff at things future, as the coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, and a future judgment; with whom i…
270 wordsSECTION 206Job 17:3
Job 17:3 Ver. 3. Lay down now,.... A pledge that thou wilt provide a surety, appoint and admit one to plead for me, and that thou wilt hear my cause, and determine it; or "put now", or "put, I pray thee" {r}, thy heart and mind to me and my case, to my petition and request, and grant it: put me in a surety with thee;…
466 wordsSECTION 207Job 17:4
Job 17:4 Ver. 4. For thou hast hid their heart from understanding,.... That is, the hearts of his friends, and therefore they were unfit to undertake his cause, or be sureties for him, or be judges in it. It is the same thing as to hide understanding from their hearts, which God sometimes does in a natural sense; when…
235 wordsSECTION 208Job 17:5
Job 17:5 Ver. 5. He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends,.... As Job's friends did to him when they promised great outward prosperity, and a restoration to his former state, and to a greater affluence upon his repentance and reformation; or when they spoke deceitfully for God, pretending great regard to the honour …
141 wordsSECTION 209Job 17:6
Job 17:6 Ver. 6. He hath made me also a byword of the people,.... Either Eliphaz, or God; for whatsoever befell him, whether more immediately by the hand of God, or by any instrument, the ascribes it to him, as being suffered in Providence to befall him; as when he became a byword or proverb to the people in common, t…
568 wordsSECTION 210Job 17:7
Job 17:7 Ver. 7. Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,.... Through excessive weeping, and the abundance of tears he shed, so that he had almost lost his eyesight, or however it was greatly weakened and impaired by that means, which is often the case, see Ps 6:7; and all my members [are] as a shadow; his flesh was…
182 wordsSECTION 211Job 17:8
Job 17:8 Ver. 8. Upright men shall be astonished at this,.... Such as were upright in heart, and in their walk conversation, sincere and honourable in their profession of religion, these would be amazed at the afflictions of Job, and the unkindness of his friends; it is hereby suggested, that it would be then, and in …
293 wordsSECTION 212Job 17:9
Job 17:9 Ver. 9. The righteous also shall hold on his way,.... He that is righteous, not in appearance but really, not in a legal but in an evangelic sense; who is justified by the righteousness of Job's living Redeemer, who lives by faith on his righteousness, and in consequence of that in holiness of life and conver…
429 wordsSECTION 213Job 17:10
Job 17:10 Ver. 10. But as for you all, do ye return, and come now,.... This is an address to his three friends, all and everyone of them, who he perceived were nettled with his reply, and were either departing, or preparing for a rejoinder; and being conscious of his innocence, and satisfied of the goodness of his cau…
261 wordsSECTION 214Job 17:11
Job 17:11 Ver. 11. My days are past,.... Or "passed away", or "passed over" {w}; not that they passed over the time fixed and appointed by God, for there is no passing the bound settled by him, Job 14:5; but either the common term of man's life was passed with Job, or he speaks of things in his own apprehension; he im…
478 wordsSECTION 215Job 17:12
Job 17:12 Ver. 12. They change the night into day,.... Meaning either his friends, by what they had said unto him, or the thoughts of his heart, which comes to the same sense; these being in the night season employed about what had been said to him in the day, insomuch that he could get no sleep, the night was as broa…
279 wordsSECTION 216Job 17:13
Job 17:13 Ver. 13. If I wait, the grave [is] mine house,.... Not that Job put an "if" upon, or made a doubt of waiting upon God in private or public; or of waiting for him, his gracious appearances to him, answers of prayer, performance of promises, and deliverance out of trouble; and especially of waiting his appoint…
447 wordsSECTION 217Job 17:14
Job 17:14 Ver. 14. I have said to corruption, thou [art] my father,.... Not to the corruptible seed, of which he was begotten; nor to the corruption or purulent matter of his boils and ulcers, and the worms his flesh was now clothed with, Job 7:5; but to that corruption his body would turn to in the grave, lying long …
336 wordsSECTION 218Job 17:15
Job 17:15 Ver. 15. And where [is] now my hope?.... Not the grace of hope, which was in his heart; and though it might sometimes be low in exercise, it could not be lost; it is an anchor, sure and steadfast, and is one of the graces that always abides, and never disappoints and makes ashamed; nor the object of hope, et…
282 wordsSECTION 219Job 17:16
Job 17:16 Ver. 16. They shall go down to the bars of the pit,.... He himself, and his friends, and the hopes they would have him entertain; these should all go down together to the grave, and there lie barred and locked up; these hopes, so as never to rise anymore, and the bodies of himself, and his friends, till loos…
308 wordsSECTION 220Job 18:1
Job 18:1 INTRODUCTION TO JOB 18 In this chapter is Bildad's second reply to Job, in which he falls with great fury upon him, very sharply inveighs against him, and very highly charges him; the charges he brings against him are talkativeness and inattention to what was said to him, Job 18:1; contempt of his friends, i…
359 wordsSECTION 221Job 18:2
Job 18:2 Ver. 2. How long [will it be] ere ye make an end of words?.... Because these words are expressed the plural number, some think more persons than one are addressed, either Eliphaz and Job together, who are complained of as taking up all the time, and having all the talk to themselves, that another could scarce…
921 wordsSECTION 222Job 18:3
Job 18:3 Ver. 3. Wherefore are we counted as beasts,.... This seems to refer to Job 12:7; where Job sends them to the beasts, to get knowledge and instruction; and therefore it was concluded he reckoned them as such, and put them on a level with them, yea, made them inferior to them; or to Job 17:4; where they are rep…
461 wordsSECTION 223Job 18:4
Job 18:4 Ver. 4. He teareth himself in his anger,.... Or "his soul" {l}, meaning Job, and referring to what he had said in Job 16:9; Now, says Bildad, it is neither God nor man that tears you, it is you yourself; representing Job as a madman, rending his clothes, tearing his flesh, and even his very soul; for by his p…
665 wordsSECTION 224Job 18:5
Job 18:5 Ver. 5. Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out,.... Or "nevertheless" {m}; notwithstanding all this disregard and inattention to us, and contempt of us, and all the rage, and wrath, and pride, and haughtiness discovered, as if the laws of nature, and stated methods of Providence, must all give way to j…
545 wordsSECTION 225Job 18:6
Job 18:6 Ver. 6. The light shall the dark in his tabernacle,.... Not the light of the eye, in the tabernacle of his body, rather the light of nature and reason in him; and when that "light [that is] in [a man becomes] darkness", as our Lord says, "how great [is] that darkness!" Mt 6:23; but best of all it designs the …
225 wordsSECTION 226Job 18:7
Job 18:7 Ver. 7. The steps of his strength shall be straitened,.... As a man in health can take large and strong steps, and travel in the greatness of his strength; so in prosperity he can and does take large steps in obtaining fame and reputation among men, in amassing substance to himself, and towards settling his f…
256 wordsSECTION 227Job 18:8
Job 18:8 Ver. 8. For he is cast into a net by his own feet,.... He goes into it of himself, incautious and imprudent; the counsels, schemes, and methods he takes to hurt others, issue in his own ruin; the pit he digs for them, he falls and sinks into himself; and the net which he has spread and hid for others, in it i…
400 wordsSECTION 228Job 18:9
Job 18:9 Ver. 9. The gin shall take [him] by the heel,.... And hold him fast, so that he shall not be able to get away, especially out of such as are set by God himself; for God has his nets, and snares, and gins for wicked men, and such plenty of them, that he even is said to rain them on them; yea, he himself is a g…
341 wordsSECTION 229Job 18:10
Job 18:10 Ver. 10. The snare [is] laid for him in the ground,.... Or "hidden" {r} there; for, as Solomon says, "in vain the net is spread in sight of any bird", Pr 1:17; and in vain it is to lay a snare publicly in the sight or creature, it will not then come near it, but shun and avoid it; and therefore it is laid un…
250 wordsSECTION 230Job 18:11
Job 18:11 Ver. 11. Terrors shall make him afraid on every side,.... Make him a "Magormissabib", or "terror on every side", as Pashur was a terror to himself, Jer 20:3, and all his friends about him; these terrors may be either the terrors of the judges of the earth upon wicked men, who are, or should be, a terror to e…
504 wordsSECTION 231Job 18:12
Job 18:12 Ver. 12. His strength shall be hungerbitten,.... Or "shall be famine" {u}, or hunger, that is, shall be weakened by it; famine is a sore evil, and greatly weakens thee natural strength of men; want of food will soon bring down the strength of the strongest man, when the stay and the staff, the sustenance and…
4,176 wordsSECTION 232Job 19:1
Job 19:1 INTRODUCTION TO JOB 19 This chapter contains Job's reply to Bildad's second speech, in which he complains of the ill usage of his friends, of their continuing to vex him, and to beat, and bruise, and break him in pieces with their hard words, and to reproach him, and carry it strange to him, Job 19:1; which …
412 wordsSECTION 233Job 19:2
Job 19:2 Ver. 2. How long will ye vex my soul,.... Which of all vexation is the worst; not only his bones were vexed, but his soul also, as David's was, Ps 6:2. His body was vexed with boils from head to feet; but now his soul was vexed by his friends, and which denotes extreme vexation, a man's being vexed to his ver…
471 wordsSECTION 234Job 19:3
Job 19:3 Ver. 3. These ten times have ye reproached me,.... Referring not to ten sections or paragraphs, in which they had done it, as Jarchi; or to the five speeches his friends, in which their reproaches were doubled; or to Job's words, and their answer, as Saadiah; for it does not denote an exact number of their re…
671 wordsSECTION 235Job 19:4
Job 19:4 Ver. 4. And be it indeed [that] I have erred,.... Which is a concession for argument's sake, but not an acknowledgment that he had erred; though it is possible he might have erred, and it is certain he did in some things, though not in that respect with which he was charged; "humanum est errare", all men are …
436 wordsSECTION 236Job 19:5
Job 19:5 Ver. 5. If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me,.... Look and talk big, set up themselves for great folk, and resolve to run him down; open their mouths wide against him and speak great swelling words in a blustering manner; or magnify what they called an error in him, and set it out in the worst li…
116 wordsSECTION 237Job 19:6
Job 19:6 Ver. 6. Know now that God hath overthrown me,.... He would have them take notice that all his afflictions were from the hand of God; and therefore should take care to what they imputed any acts of his, whose ways are unsearchable, and the reasons of them not to be found out; and therefore, if a wrong construc…
325 wordsSECTION 238Job 19:7
Job 19:7 Ver. 7. Behold, I cry out of wrong,.... Or of "violence" {m}, or injury done him by the Sabeans and Chaldeans upon his substance, and by Satan upon his health; this he cried out and complained of in prayer to God, and of it as it were in open court, as a violation of justice, and as being dealt very unjustly …
282 wordsSECTION 239Job 19:8
Job 19:8 Ver. 8. He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass,.... A metaphor taken from travellers, who not only meet with obstacles and obstructions in their way, which make it difficult; but sometimes with such enclosures and fences, that they are at a full stop, and cannot pass on, and know not what course to steer…
600 wordsSECTION 240Job 19:9
Job 19:9 Ver. 9. He hath stripped me of my glory,.... The metaphor of a traveller may be still continued, who falling among thieves is stripped of his clothes, to which the allusion may be: Job was not stripped of his glory in a spiritual sense, not of the glorious robe of Christ's righteousness, nor of the graces of …
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Public domain; John Gill (1697–1771). Source item is marked Public Domain on Internet Archive.
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.