PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Job
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 410,186 words · 582 reading sections
Job 24:3
Job 24:3 Ver. 3. They drive away the ass of the fatherless,.... Who are left destitute of friends, and have none to take care of them, and provide for them; and who having one ass to carry their goods for them from place to place, or to ride upon, which though a creature of no great worth, yet of some usefulness, this…
240 wordsSECTION 302Job 24:4
Job 24:4 Ver. 4. They turn the needy out of the way,.... Either, in a moral sense, out of the right way, the way of righteousness and truth, by their bad examples, or by their threatenings or flatteries; or, in a civil sense, out of the way of their livelihood, by taking that from them by which they got it; or, in a l…
200 wordsSECTION 303Job 24:5
Job 24:5 Ver. 5. Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert,.... The word "as" is a supplement, and may be omitted, and the words be interpreted literally of wild asses, as they are by Sephorno, whose proper place is in the wilderness, to which they are used, and where their food is provided for them, and which they dilige…
441 wordsSECTION 304Job 24:6
Job 24:6 Ver. 6. They reap [everyone] his corn in the field,.... Not the poor, who are obliged to reap the corn of the wicked for them without any wages, as some; but rather the wicked reap the corn of the poor; they are so insolent and impudent, that they do not take the corn out of their barns by stealth, but while …
341 wordsSECTION 305Job 24:7
Job 24:7 Ver. 7. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing,.... That is, such as are poorly clothed, thinly arrayed, have scarce anything but rags, and yet so cruel the wicked men above described, that they take these away from the poor, and even their bed clothes, which seem chiefly designed; so that they are ob…
139 wordsSECTION 306Job 24:8
Job 24:8 Ver. 8. They are wet with the showers of the mountains,.... They that are without any clothes to cover them, lying down at the bottom of a hill or mountain, where the clouds often gather, and there break, or the snow at the top of them melts through the heat of the day; and whether by the one or by the other,…
190 wordsSECTION 307Job 24:9
Job 24:9 Ver. 9. They pluck the fatherless from the breast,.... Either on purpose to starve it, which must be extremely barbarous; or to sell it to be brought up a slave; or by obliging the mother to wean it before the due time, that she might be the better able to do work for them they obliged her to. Mr. Broughton r…
232 wordsSECTION 308Job 24:10
Job 24:10 Ver. 10. They cause [him] to go naked without clothing,.... Having taken his raiment from him for a pledge, or refusing to give him his wages for his work, whereby he might procure clothes to cover him, but that being withheld, is obliged to go naked, or next to it: and they take away the sheaf [from] the h…
424 wordsSECTION 309Job 24:11
Job 24:11 Ver. 11. [Which] make oil within their walls,.... Not the poor within their own walls; as if the sense was, that they made their oil in a private manner within the walls of their houses, or in their cellars, lest it should be known and taken away from them; for such cannot be thought to have had oliveyards t…
234 wordsSECTION 310Job 24:12
Job 24:12 Ver. 12. Men groan from out of the city,.... Because of the oppressions and injuries done to them, so that not only the poor in the country that were employed in the fields, and oliveyards, and vineyards, were used exceeding ill; but even in cities, where not only are an abundance of people, and so the outra…
417 wordsSECTION 311Job 24:13
Job 24:13 Ver. 13. They are of those that rebel against the light,.... The light of nature, acting contrary to the dictates of their own consciences, in being guilty of the inhumanity, barbarity, and cruelty they were chargeable with in the above instances; or the light of the law, as the Targum; though as yet the law…
5,608 wordsSECTION 312Job 25:1
Job 25:1 INTRODUCTION TO JOB 25 This chapter contains Bildad's reply to Job, such an one as it is; in which, declining the controversy between them, he endeavours to dissuade him from attempting to lay his cause before God, and think to justify himself before him, from the consideration of the majesty of God, describ…
292 wordsSECTION 313Job 25:2
Job 25:2 Ver. 2. Dominion and fear [are] with him,.... Not with man, as Sephorno interprets it, as that with him is power to rule over the imagination (the evil figment of his heart) to choose the good, and refuse the evil; and with him is fear of punishment, and also the fear of God to restrain him from evil; but wit…
533 wordsSECTION 314Job 25:3
Job 25:3 Ver. 3. Is there any number of his armies?.... His armies in heaven, the heavenly host of angels, which are innumerable; there are more than twelve legions of them, thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand, employed in a military way, for the safety and preservation of the saints; see Ge 32:1; and the sun…
249 wordsSECTION 315Job 25:4
Job 25:4 Ver. 4. How then can man be justified with God?] Since he sees all his ways and works, his secret as well as open sins; either be more just than he, as Eliphaz expresses it, Job 4:17; which no man in his senses will say; or just as he is, and upon a level with him, or in comparison of him, or before him, and …
524 wordsSECTION 316Job 25:5
Job 25:5 Ver. 5. Behold, even to the moon,.... If all things that are glorious and illustrious in the lower world, and which are between that and the region of the moon, are beheld; or all from the seat of the Divine Majesty, down to that glorious luminary, are viewed, they lose all their lustre and brightness, when c…
328 wordsSECTION 317Job 25:6
Job 25:6 Ver. 6. How much less man, [that is] a worm?.... Whose original is of the earth, dwells in it, and is supported by it, and creeps into it again; who is impure by nature and by practice, weak and impotent to do anything that is spiritually good, or to defend himself from his spiritual enemies; and is mean and …
395 wordsSECTION 318Job 26:1
Job 26:1 INTRODUCTION TO JOB 26 In this chapter Job, in a very sarcastic manner, rallies Bildad on the weakness and impertinence of his reply, and sets it in a very ridiculous light; showing it to be quite foolish and stupid, and not at all to the purpose, and besides was none of his own, but what he had borrowed fro…
222 wordsSECTION 319Job 26:2
Job 26:2 Ver. 2. How hast thou helped [him that is] without power?.... This verse and Job 26:3 either are to be understood of God, as many do, by reading the words, "who hast thou helped? God" {r}? a fine advocate for him thou art, representing him as if he was without power, and could not help himself, but stood in n…
701 wordsSECTION 320Job 26:3
Job 26:3 Ver. 3. How hast thou counselled [him that hath] no wisdom?.... A man deprived of wisdom has need of counsel, and it should be given him; and he does well both to ask and take it; and be it so, as if Job should say, that I am the foolish and unwise creature you take me to be, what counsel and advice have you …
160 wordsSECTION 321Job 26:4
Job 26:4 Ver. 4. To whom hast thou uttered words?.... That others know not; dost thou think thou art talking to an ignorant man? be it known to thee, that he knows as much, and can say as much of the Divine Being, of his glories, and of his wondrous ways and works, as thyself, or more: or dost thou consider the circum…
468 wordsSECTION 322Job 26:5
Job 26:5 Ver. 5. Dead [things] are formed from under the waters,.... It is difficult to say what things are here meant; it may be understood of "lifeless" things, as Mr. Broughton renders it; things that never had any life, things inanimate, that never had at least an animal life, though they may have a vegetable one;…
623 wordsSECTION 323Job 26:6
Job 26:6 Ver. 6. Hell [is] naked before him,.... Which may be taken either for the place of the damned, as it sometimes is; and then the sense is, that though it is hidden from men, and they know not where it is, or who are in it, and what is done and suffered there; yet it is all known to God: he knows the place ther…
404 wordsSECTION 324Job 26:7
Job 26:7 Ver. 7. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place,.... The northern hemisphere, which is the chief and best known, at least it was in the time of Job, when the southern hemisphere might not be known at all; though, if our version of Job 9:9 is right, Job seems to have had knowledge of it. Scheuchzer {u…
543 wordsSECTION 325Job 26:8
Job 26:8 Ver. 8. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds,.... The clouds are of his making; when he utters his voice, or gives the word of command, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and the vapours he exhales from the ends of the earth and forms them into clouds, and they are his chariots, in which h…
287 wordsSECTION 326Job 26:9
Job 26:9 Ver. 9. He holdeth back the face of his throne,.... His throne is the heaven of heavens; the face of it, or what is before it, is the starry and airy heavens; this face of his throne is sometimes held back, or covered with clouds, that so his throne is so far from being visible, that even the face of it, or t…
190 wordsSECTION 327Job 26:10
Job 26:10 Ver. 10. He hath compassed the waters with bounds,.... Not the waters above the firmament, compassed by that, as if Job was contemplating on and discoursing about what is done in the heavens above; though the Targum seems to incline to this sense, paraphrasing the words, "he hath decreed that the firmament …
566 wordsSECTION 328Job 26:11
Job 26:11 Ver. 11. The pillars of heaven tremble,.... Which may be understood either of the air, the lower part of the heavens, which may be thought to be the foundation, prop, and support of them, and is sometimes called the firmament, and "the firmament of his power", Ps 150:1; and which seems to tremble when there …
350 wordsSECTION 329Job 26:12
Job 26:12 Ver. 12. He divideth the sea with his power,.... As at the first creation, when the waters were caused to go off the face of the earth, and were separated from it; and the one was called earth, and the other seas, Ge 1:9; or it may respect the division of those waters into divers seas and channels in the sev…
505 wordsSECTION 330Job 26:13
Job 26:13 Ver. 13. By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens,.... The visible heavens, with the sun, moon, and stars, with which they are studded and bespangled, and look exceeding beautiful; and the invisible heavens, with angels, the morning stars, and glorified saints, who especially in the resurrection morn will…
446 wordsSECTION 331Job 26:14
Job 26:14 Ver. 14. Lo, these [are] parts of his ways,.... This is the conclusion of the discourse concerning the wonderful works of God; and Job was so far from thinking that he had taken notice of all, or even of the chief and principal, that what he observed were only the extremities, the edges, the borders, and out…
462 wordsSECTION 332Job 27:1
Job 27:1 INTRODUCTION TO JOB 27 Though Job's friends were become silent, and dropped the controversy with him, he still continued his discourse in this and the four following chapters; in which he asserts his integrity; illustrates and confirms his former sentiments; gives further proof of his knowledge of things, na…
643 wordsSECTION 333Job 27:2
Job 27:2 Ver. 2. [As] God liveth,.... Which is an oath, as Jarchi observes, and is a form of one frequently used, see 2Sa 2:27; and is used by God himself, who, because he can swear by no greater, swears by himself, and by his life, which ever continues, as in Eze 18:3; and many other places; and so the Angel of the L…
728 wordsSECTION 334Job 27:3
Job 27:3 Ver. 3. All the while my breath [is] in me,.... So long the oath of God would be upon him, or he bound himself under it: and the spirit of God [is] in my nostrils; which signifies the same thing. The breath of a man is his spirit, and this is of God, the Father of spirits; he first breathed into man the brea…
204 wordsSECTION 335Job 27:4
Job 27:4 Ver. 4. My lips shall not speak wickedness,.... This is the thing he swears to, this the matter of his oath, not only that he would not speak a wicked word not anything corrupt, unsavoury, unchaste, profane, and idle nor speak evil of his neighbours and friends or of any man; but that he would not speak wicke…
166 wordsSECTION 336Job 27:5
Job 27:5 Ver. 5. God forbid that I should justify you,.... Not but that he counted them righteous and good men God-ward; he did not take upon him to judge their state, and to justify or condemn them with respect to their everlasting condition; but he could not justify them in their censures of him, and say they did a …
399 wordsSECTION 337Job 27:6
Job 27:6 Ver. 6. My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go,.... Meaning not his personal righteousness, or the righteousness of his works, as his justifying righteousness before God, and for acceptance with him; which no man that is convinced of the insufficiency of, as Job was, will hold fast, but renounce…
457 wordsSECTION 338Job 27:7
Job 27:7 Ver. 7. Let mine enemy be as the wicked,.... Job in this, and some following verses, shows, that he was not, and could not, and would not be a wicked man and an hypocrite, or however had no opinion and liking of such persons; for whatever his friends might think of him, because he had said so much of their ou…
665 wordsSECTION 339Job 27:8
Job 27:8 Ver. 8. For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite,.... In religion, who seems to be what he is not, a holy and righteous man; professes to have what he has not, the grace of God; pretends to do what he does not, worship God sincerely and fervently, and does all he does to be seen of men; though such a man may h…
526 wordsSECTION 340Job 27:9
Job 27:9 Ver. 9. Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh, upon him?] No, he will not, he heareth not sinners, and such as regard iniquity in their hearts, Ps 66:18; every man has trouble more or less in this life, even the best of men; and generally speaking they have the most, and wicked men the least; but when dea…
224 wordsSECTION 341Job 27:10
Job 27:10 Ver. 10. Will he delight himself in the Almighty?.... That is, the hypocrite; no, he will not; he may seem to delight in, him, but he does not truly and sincerely; not in him as the Almighty, or in his omnipotence, into whose hands it is a fearful thing to fall, and who is able to destroy soul and body in he…
374 wordsSECTION 342Job 27:11
Job 27:11 Ver. 11. I will teach you by the hand of God,.... To serve God, and speak truth, says one of the Jewish commentators {g}; rather the works of God, and methods of his providence, with wicked men and hypocrites; the wisdom of God in his dispensations towards them; the reasons why he suffers them to live in out…
532 wordsSECTION 343Job 27:12
Job 27:12 Ver. 12. Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it],.... As they were men of observation, at least made great pretensions to it, as well as of age and experience, they must have seen and observed somewhat at least of the above things; they must have seen the wicked, as David afterwards did, spreading himself l…
204 wordsSECTION 344Job 27:13
Job 27:13 Ver. 13. This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God,.... Not to be punished in this life, but after death. This is what Job undertook to teach his friends, and is the purport of what follows in this chapter. A wicked man is not only one that has been so from the womb, and is openly and notoriously a wick…
419 wordsSECTION 345Job 27:14
Job 27:14 Ver. 14. If his children be multiplied,.... As it is possible they may; this is one external blessing common to good men and bad men. Haman, that proud oppressor, left ten sons behind him, and wicked Ahab had seventy, Es 9:12: [it is] for the sword; for them that kill with the sword, as the Targum; to be ki…
360 wordsSECTION 346Job 27:15
Job 27:15 Ver. 15. Those that remain of him,.... Of the wicked man after his death; or such that remain, and have escaped the sword and famine: shall be buried in death: the pestilence, emphatically called death by the Hebrews, as by us the mortality, see Re 6:8. This is another of God's sore public judgments wicked …
3,210 wordsSECTION 347Job 28:1
Job 28:1 INTRODUCTION TO JOB 28 The design of this chapter is either to show the folly of such who are very diligent in their search and pursuit after earthly things, and neglect an inquiry after that which is infinitely more valuable, true wisdom; or rather to observe, that though things the most secret, and which a…
1,048 wordsSECTION 348Job 28:2
Job 28:2 Ver. 2. Iron is taken out of the earth,.... Very easily, and in great plenty, and is more common, being in most countries, is nearer the surface of the earth, and here said to be taken "out of the dust" {x}; which, being melted in a furnace, produces iron, a metal very serviceable for various rises, and witho…
252 wordsSECTION 349Job 28:3
Job 28:3 Ver. 3. He setteth an end to darkness,.... Some understand this and what follows of God, who, by making the luminaries, has fixed the periods and revolutions of light and darkness, of day and night; or who has determined the times before appointed, for the discoveries of things in nature, as mines of gold, si…
328 wordsSECTION 350Job 28:4
Job 28:4 Ver. 4. The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant,.... Or, "so that there is no inhabitant" {z}; of the mine, as the miner may be said to be, who lives there continually; and, when a flood of water arises, which is an usual thing in mines, he is obliged to flee, and make haste to save his life: [even the wa…
282 wordsSECTION 351Job 28:5
Job 28:5 Ver. 5. [As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread,.... That is, bread corn, or corn of which bread is made particularly wheat; which falling, or being cast into the earth, rises up and brings forth fruit, and, when ground into flour, makes fine bread; and to this same original the psalmist ascribes bread, wh…
225 wordsSECTION 352Job 28:6
Job 28:6 Ver. 6. The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires,.... In some parts of the earth its stones are a quarry of sapphires, put here for all precious stones: this is a most excellent precious stone, of a sky colour, with golden specks, and was one of the stones in the breast plate of the high priest; and by w…
242 wordsSECTION 353Job 28:7
Job 28:7 Ver. 7. [There is] a path which no fowl knoweth,.... A path made by miners to the gold, silver, brass, and iron ores; to the places where gems and precious stones lie; the way to which was never seen, and could never have been discovered by the most sharp-sighted fowl, as "the eagle" {d}; which some think is …
527 wordsSECTION 354Job 28:8
Job 28:8 Ver. 8. The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. Or "upon it" {e}; such creatures that are exceeding fierce and cruel, hungry and voracious, eager after their prey, range here and there in pursuit of it, search every hole and corner, and rove in dens and caves of the earth; yet…
306 wordsSECTION 355Job 28:9
Job 28:9 Ver. 9. He putteth forth his hand upon the rock,.... The discourse is carried on concerning the miner, and digger in the earth for metals and precious stones; who meeting with a rock or flint, and a ridge of them, is not discouraged, but goes to work therewith, and with his hammer in his hand lays upon the ro…
452 wordsSECTION 356Job 28:10
Job 28:10 Ver. 10. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks,.... By cleaving rocks asunder in order to find out things of value in the cliffs of them; or by cutting his way through them, the miner opens a course for rivers and floods of water, to drain off from his mines, and so can go on with his works more comfortably,…
481 wordsSECTION 357Job 28:11
Job 28:11 Ver. 11. He bindeth the floods from overflowing,.... As the miner finds ways and means of cutting through rocks, and draining and carrying off the waters in his mine; so he makes use of other methods of restraining and keeping back the waters from coming into and overflowing his works, and even "from weeping…
603 wordsSECTION 358Job 28:12
Job 28:12 Ver. 12. But where shall wisdom be found?.... Though there is a vein for silver, a track where that lies, and is to be come at, and a place where gold is found, and where it may be refined, and parts of the earth, out of which brass and iron, and bread corn, may be produced, and even from whence may be fetch…
7,463 wordsSECTION 359Job 29:1
Job 29:1 INTRODUCTION TO JOB 29 In this chapter Job gives an account of his former and wishes it was with him now as then; and which he describes with respect to his own person, and the favours he personally enjoyed, whether temporal or spiritual, Job 29:1; with respect to his family and domestic affairs, Job 29:5; w…
264 wordsSECTION 360Job 29:2
Job 29:2 Ver. 2. Oh that I were as [in] months past,.... Which is either an earnest wish for restoration to his former state of outward prosperity; which he might desire, not through impatience and discontent under his present circumstances, or from a carnal and worldly spirit; but either that the present reproach he …
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