PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Job
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 410,186 words · 582 reading sections
Job 19:10
Job 19:10 Ver. 10. He hath destroyed me on every side,.... To be "troubled on every side" is much, as the apostles were, 2Co 4:8; but to be destroyed on every side, and all around, is more, and denotes utter destruction; it may have respect to the rein of his substance and family, which were all demolished at once; hi…
511 wordsSECTION 242Job 19:11
Job 19:11 Ver. 11. He hath also kindled his wrath against me,.... In this and some following verses the metaphor is taken from a state of warfare, in which enemies are engaged in an hostile way, Job 19:12; in which way Job apprehended God was come forth against him; he imagined that the wrath of God, which is comparab…
400 wordsSECTION 243Job 19:12
Job 19:12 Ver. 12. His troops come together,.... Afflictions which are many, and of which it may be said, as was at the birth of God, who had his name from the word here used, "a troop cometh": Ge 30:11; and these sometimes come together, or follow so quick one upon another, that there is scarce any interval between t…
348 wordsSECTION 244Job 19:13
Job 19:13 Ver. 13. He hath put my brethren far from me,.... As it is one part of business in war to cut off all communication between the enemy and their confederates and auxiliaries, and to hinder them of all the help and assistance from them they can; so Job here represents God dealing with him as with an enemy, and…
7,693 wordsSECTION 245Job 20:1
Job 20:1 INTRODUCTION TO JOB 20 Zophar and his friends, not satisfied with Job's confession of faith, he in his turn replies, and in his preface gives his reasons why he made any answer at all, and was so quick in it, Job 20:1; and appeals to Job for the truth of an old established maxim, that the prosperity of wicke…
449 wordsSECTION 246Job 20:2
Job 20:2 Ver. 2. Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer,.... Or "to return" {a} and appear upon the stage again, and enter the lists once more with his antagonist; he suggests as if he had intended to have said no more in this controversy, but observing what Job had said last, could not forbear replying: "therefo…
427 wordsSECTION 247Job 20:3
Job 20:3 Ver. 3. I have heard the check of my reproach,.... He took it that Job had reproached him and his friends, by representing them as hardhearted men, and persecuting him wrongly in a violent manner; and he had observed the "check" or reproof given for it, by bidding them beware of the sword, and lest the punish…
384 wordsSECTION 248Job 20:4
Job 20:4 Ver. 4. Knowest thou [not] this of old,.... Or "from eternity" {g}, from the beginning of time, ever since the world was; as if he should say, if you are the knowing man you pretend to be, you must know this I am about to observe; and if you do not know it, you must be an ignorant man, since it is an ancient …
259 wordsSECTION 249Job 20:5
Job 20:5 Ver. 5. That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short,.... Their outward prosperity and felicity, of which they make their boast, and in which they glory and triumph for a while; at first Job's friends set out with this notion, that the wicked never flourished and prospered, but it always went ill with them in…
521 wordsSECTION 250Job 20:6
Job 20:6 Ver. 6. Though his excellency mount up to the heavens,.... Though, in worldly grandeur and glory, he should arrive to such a pitch as the Assyrian monarch was ambitious of, as to ascend into heaven, exalt his throne above the stars of God, and be like the Most High; or be comparable to such a tree, by which t…
168 wordsSECTION 251Job 20:7
Job 20:7 Ver. 7. [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung,.... Not only in this world, but in the world to come, both in his outward substance here, and in his body in the grave, and in his soul to all eternity, and that in the most shameful and disgraceful manner; he shall perish in his own corruption, and li…
201 wordsSECTION 252Job 20:8
Job 20:8 Ver. 8. He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found,.... Either as a dream which is forgotten, as Nebuchadnezzar's was, and cannot be recovered; or as the matter and substance of a dream, which, though remembered, is a mere illusion; as when a hungry or thirsty man dreams he eats or drinks, but, awak…
197 wordsSECTION 253Job 20:9
Job 20:9 Ver. 9. The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more,.... In this world, concerned in the affairs of life, and busy in worldly employments, and especially in the grandeur he sometimes was, if not removed by death; but the former sense seems most agreeable by what follows, neither shall his place any …
140 wordsSECTION 254Job 20:10
Job 20:10 Ver. 10. His children shall seek to please the poor,.... In this and some following verses the miserable state of a wicked man is described, and which begins with his children, who are often visited in wrath for their parents' sins, especially when they tread in their steps, and follow their example; and it …
411 wordsSECTION 255Job 20:11
Job 20:11 Ver. 11. His bones are full [of the sins] of his youth,.... Man is born in sin, and is a transgressor from the womb; and the youthful age is addicted to many sins, as pride, passion, lust, luxury, intemperance, and uncleanness; and these are sometimes brought to mind, and men are convinced of them, and corre…
490 wordsSECTION 256Job 20:12
Job 20:12 Ver. 12. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth,.... Which may respect some particular sin, and by the context it seems to be the sin of covetousness, or of getting riches in an unlawful way, which is very sweet and pleasing to wicked men, while they are in such pursuits that succeed; and so Mr. Broughton r…
398 wordsSECTION 257Job 20:13
Job 20:13 Ver. 13. [Though] he spare it,.... Not that he feeds sparingly on it, for he eats of it freely and plentifully, with great eagerness and greediness; it designs the gratefulness of it to him; he does not spit it out as loathsome, having tasted of it, but retains it as sweet and pleasant; he spares it as Saul …
258 wordsSECTION 258Job 20:14
Job 20:14 Ver. 14. [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned,.... Or "his bread" {r}, to which sin is compared, being what the sinner lives in, and lives upon; what he strengthens himself in and with, and by which he is nourished unto the day of slaughter, and by means of which he grows and proceeds to more ungodliness, …
298 wordsSECTION 259Job 20:15
Job 20:15 Ver. 15. He hath swallowed down riches,.... Not his own, but another's, which he has spoiled him of and devoured, with as much eagerness, pleasure, and delight, as a hungry man swallows down his food; having an excessive and immoderate love of riches, and an insatiable desire after them, which make him stop …
4,428 wordsSECTION 260Job 21:1
Job 21:1 INTRODUCTION TO JOB 21 This chapter contains Job's reply to Zophar's preceding discourse, in which, after a preface exciting attention to what he was about to say, Job 21:1; he describes by various instances the prosperity of wicked men, even of the most impious and atheistical, and which continues with them…
307 wordsSECTION 261Job 21:2
Job 21:2 Ver. 2. Hear diligently my speech,.... The following oration or discourse he was about to deliver concerning the prosperity of wicked men; to which he desires their closest attention, that they might the better understand the force of his reasoning, the evidences and proof of fasts he should give; whereby, if…
271 wordsSECTION 262Job 21:3
Job 21:3 Ver. 3. Suffer me that I may speak,.... To go on with his discourse, without any interruption, until he had finished it; as he before craves their attention, here he entreats their patience to hear him out, as well as to give him leave to begin; they might by their gestures seem as if they were breaking up an…
313 wordsSECTION 263Job 21:4
Job 21:4 Ver. 4. As for me, [is] my complaint to man?.... Job had been complaining, and still was, and continued to do so after this, but not to them, his friends, nor any other man; his complaint was made to God, and of him he thought he was hardly dealt with by him, he could not tell for what; he had desired to know…
631 wordsSECTION 264Job 21:5
Job 21:5 Ver. 5. Mark me,.... Or "look at me" {n}; not at his person, which was no lovely sight to behold, being covered with boils from head to foot, his flesh clothed with worms and clods of dust, his skin broken, yea, scarce any left; however, he was become a mere skeleton, reduced to skin and bone; but at his sorr…
353 wordsSECTION 265Job 21:6
Job 21:6 Ver. 6. Even when I remember,.... Either the iniquities of his youth he was made to possess; or his former state of outward happiness and prosperity he had enjoyed, and reviewed his present miserable case and condition, and called to mind the evil tidings brought him thick and fast of the loss of his substanc…
194 wordsSECTION 266Job 21:7
Job 21:7 Ver. 7. Wherefore do the wicked live,.... Which question is put either to God himself, as not knowing ow to account for it, or to reconcile it to his divine perfections; that he, a holy, just, and righteous Being, should suffer such wretches to live upon his earth, who had been, and still were, continually si…
490 wordsSECTION 267Job 21:8
Job 21:8 Ver. 8. Their seed is established in their sight with them,.... Which is to be understood not of seed sown in the earth, and of the permanence and increase of that, but of their children; to have a numerous progeny, was reckoned a great temporal blessing, and to have them settled happily and comfortably in th…
237 wordsSECTION 268Job 21:9
Job 21:9 Ver. 9. Their houses [are] safe from fear,.... Of enemies besetting them, entering into them, and pillaging and plundering them; of thieves and robbers breaking into them, and carrying off their substance: or "their houses [are] peace" {o}; their families live in peace among themselves, or enjoy all prosperit…
149 wordsSECTION 269Job 21:10
Job 21:10 Ver. 10. Their bull gendereth, and faileth not,.... As the wicked man's prosperity is described before by the increase and comfortable settlement of his children and grandchildren, and by the peace and safety of all within doors; here it is further set forth by the increase of his cattle in the fields, one p…
137 wordsSECTION 270Job 21:11
Job 21:11 Ver. 11. They send forth their little ones like a flock,.... Of sheep, which are creatures very increasing, and become very numerous, Ps 144:13; to which a large increase of families may be compared, Ps 107:41, for this is not to be interpreted of their kine sending or bringing forth such numbers as to be li…
337 wordsSECTION 271Job 21:12
Job 21:12 Ver. 12. They take the timbrel and harp,.... Not the children, but the parents of them; these took these instruments of music into their hands, and played upon them while their children danced; thus merrily they spent their time: or, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra, they lift up the voice with the tabret and harp; t…
200 wordsSECTION 272Job 21:13
Job 21:13 Ver. 13. They spend their days in wealth,.... Or "in good" {p}; not in the performance of good works, or in the exercise of that which is spiritually good; or in seeking after spiritual good things, or eternal happiness; but in earthly good, in the enjoyment of the temporal good things of this life, and whic…
623 wordsSECTION 273Job 21:14
Job 21:14 Ver. 14. Therefore they say unto God,.... While in health and life, amidst all their outward prosperity, and because of it; for worldly riches have this tendency, to make men proud and insolent, and not only to behave ill to their fellow creatures, and to slight and despise them; but even to forsake God, and…
8,814 wordsSECTION 274Job 22:1
Job 22:1 INTRODUCTION TO JOB 22 This chapter contains the third and last reply of Eliphaz to Job, in which he charges him with having too high an opinion of himself, of his holiness and righteousness, as if God was profited by it, and laid thereby under obligation to him, whereas he was not, Job 22:1; and as if he re…
278 wordsSECTION 275Job 22:2
Job 22:2 Ver. 2. Can a man be profitable unto God?.... Eliphaz imagined that Job thought so, by his insisting so much on his integrity, and complaining of his afflictions; and that God was beholden to him for his holiness and righteousness, and that instead of afflicting him, should have heaped honours and happiness u…
851 wordsSECTION 276Job 22:3
Job 22:3 Ver. 3. [Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art righteous?.... It is not; the Lord indeed takes pleasure in his people, not as sinners, but as righteous; and as they are considered such in Christ, he is well pleased for his righteousness' sake, and with it, being agreeable to his nature, will, and …
599 wordsSECTION 277Job 22:4
Job 22:4 Ver. 4. Will he reprove thee for fear of thee?.... That is, chastise, correct, and afflict, for fear that hurt should be done unto him; no, he will not; for as the goodness of men does not profit him, the sinfulness of men does not hurt him, see Job 35:6. Kings and civil magistrates sometimes chastise offende…
415 wordsSECTION 278Job 22:5
Job 22:5 Ver. 5. Is not thy wickedness great?.... It must be owned it is, it cannot be denied. Indeed, the wickedness of every man's heart is great, it being desperately wicked, full of sin, abounding with it; out of it comes forth everything that is bad, and the wickedness of actions is very great: some sins are inde…
313 wordsSECTION 279Job 22:6
Job 22:6 Ver. 6. For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought,.... It can hardly be thought that it was for nothing at all, on no consideration whatever, or that nothing was lent, for which the pledge was taken; but that it was a small trifling sum, and comparatively nothing, not to be spoken of; or it was…
367 wordsSECTION 280Job 22:7
Job 22:7 Ver. 7. Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink,.... To a weary thirsty traveller, to whom in those hot countries cold water was very refreshing, and which in desert places was not to be had in common, or any where; rich men were possessed of their wells and fountains, and were kept for their own use,…
198 wordsSECTION 281Job 22:8
Job 22:8 Ver. 8. But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth,.... A large share and portion of it, which Job could not hinder him from the enjoyment of, because mightier than he, or otherwise he would have done it; or Job was content he should have what he had, and gave him more than what of right belonged to him; f…
438 wordsSECTION 282Job 22:9
Job 22:9 Ver. 9. Thou hast sent widows away empty,.... Either out of their own houses, which he spoiled, and devoured, and stripped, and cleared of all that were in them, as did the Scribes and Pharisees in Christ's time, Mt 23:14; or out of his own house, when they came to him, as a rich man, for charity; as they cam…
339 wordsSECTION 283Job 22:10
Job 22:10 Ver. 10. Therefore snares [are] round about thee,.... Not what occasion sin, draw into it, and issue in it, as inward corruptions, the temptations of Satan, and the things of this world, but punishments; because of the above sins charged upon Job, therefore evils, calamities, and distresses of various kinds,…
225 wordsSECTION 284Job 22:11
Job 22:11 Ver. 11. Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see,.... Or darkness is round about thee, thou art enveloped in it; meaning either judicial blindness, and darkness, and stupidity of mind, which must be his case, if he could not see the hand of God upon him, or the snares that were about him, or was not troubled …
293 wordsSECTION 285Job 22:12
Job 22:12 Ver. 12. [Is] not God in the height of heaven?.... The heaven is high, it has its name from its height, and is noted for it; some of the heavens are higher than others, as the heaven of heavens, the third heaven, the habitation of angels and glorified saints; and here God dwells, this is the habitation of hi…
7,352 wordsSECTION 286Job 23:1
Job 23:1 INTRODUCTION TO JOB 23 This and the following chapter contain Job's reply to the last oration of Eliphaz; in this he first declares his present sorrowful estate and condition, Job 23:1; wishes he knew where to find God, as a judge sitting on a throne, before whom he might lay his cause, and plead it, and hav…
351 wordsSECTION 287Job 23:2
Job 23:2 Ver. 2. Even today [is] my complaint bitter,.... Job's afflictions were continued on him long; he was made to possess months of vanity; and, as he had been complaining ever since they were upon him, he still continued to complain to that day, "even" after all the comforts his friends pretended to administer t…
478 wordsSECTION 288Job 23:3
Job 23:3 Ver. 3. O that I knew where I might find him,.... That is, God, who is understood, though not expressed, a relative without an antecedent, as in Ps 87:1; Jarchi supplies, and interprets it, "my Judge", from Job 23:7; and certain it is Job did desire to find God as a judge sitting on his throne, doing right, t…
631 wordsSECTION 289Job 23:4
Job 23:4 Ver. 4. I would order [my] cause before him,.... Either, as a praying person, direct his prayer to him, and set it in order before him, see Ps 5:3; or else as pleading in his own defence, and in justification of himself; not of his person before God, setting his works of righteousness in order before him, and…
280 wordsSECTION 290Job 23:5
Job 23:5 Ver. 5. I would know the words [which] he would answer me,.... Being a God hearing and answering prayer, who always hears, and sooner or later answers the petitions of his people in his own way; and which when he does, they know, take notice, and observe it: or then he should know the reason why the Lord cont…
211 wordsSECTION 291Job 23:6
Job 23:6 Ver. 6. Will he plead against me with [his] great power?.... God will not plead against his people at all, but for them: much less will he plead against them with his great strength, use all his power to run them down, crush, and oppress them; for he is a great God, and of great power, he is mighty in strengt…
424 wordsSECTION 292Job 23:7
Job 23:7 Ver. 7. There the righteous might dispute with him,.... That is, at his seat, either at his mercy seat, where even God allows sinners to come and reason with him, for pardoning grace and mercy, upon the foot of his own declarations and promises, and the blood and sacrifice of his son, Isa 1:18; or at his judg…
292 wordsSECTION 293Job 23:8
Job 23:8 Ver. 8. Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there],.... Job here returns to what he had said before, Job 23:3; as Jarchi observes, where he expresses his earnest desire after God, that he might know where he was, and come up to his seat; here he relates the various ways he took to find him, and his fruitle…
601 wordsSECTION 294Job 23:9
Job 23:9 Ver. 9. On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold [him],.... The northern part of the world, where his seat is, or the circle of the earth, says Bar Tzemach, and who has stretched out the north over the empty place, Job 26:7. Jarchi's note is, when he created it, he did not make it the place o…
412 wordsSECTION 295Job 23:10
Job 23:10 Ver. 10. But he knoweth the way that I take,.... This he seems to say in a way of solace to himself, comforting and contenting himself, that though he could not find God, nor knew where he was, or what way he took, nor the reasons of his ways and dispensations with the children of men, and with himself, yet …
772 wordsSECTION 296Job 23:11
Job 23:11 Ver. 11. My foot hath held his steps,.... Trod in the steps he has walked in; he followed God closely, imitated him in acts of holiness and righteousness, of mercy, kindness, and beneficence; and he continued therein; as he set his foot in the steps of God, which were to him for an example, he persisted ther…
186 wordsSECTION 297Job 23:12
Job 23:12 Ver. 12. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips,.... From any of the commandments his lips had uttered; meaning not the ten commandments given to Israel, which perhaps as yet were not given, or had not come to the knowledge of Job; some speak of the seven commandments, given to the sons of…
380 wordsSECTION 298Job 23:13
Job 23:13 Ver. 13. But he [is] in one [mind],.... Either with respect to his commandments, every precept remains in full force, he never alters the thing that is gone out of his lips, or delivers out other commandments different from, or contrary to what he has given; and therefore Job thought it his duty to abide by …
2,332 wordsSECTION 299Job 24:1
Job 24:1 INTRODUCTION TO JOB 24 This chapter contains the second part of Job's answer to the last discourse of Eliphaz, in which he shows that wicked men, those of the worst characters, prosper in the world, and go through it with impunity; he lays down this as a certain truth, that though no time is hid from God, ye…
1,194 wordsSECTION 300Job 24:2
Job 24:2 Ver. 2. [Some] remove the landmarks,.... Anciently set to distinguish one man's land from another, to secure property, and preserve from encroachments; but some were so wicked as either secretly in the night to remove them, or openly to do it, having power on their side, pretending they were wrongly located; …
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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.