CHAPTER 39 God proceeds here to show Job what little reason he had to charge him with unkindness who was so compassionate to the inferior creatures and took such a tender care of them, or to boast of himself, and his own good deeds before …
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Commentary On Job 36:1-33
Chapter 36 Elihu, having largely reproved Job for some of his unadvised speeches, which Job had nothing to say in the vindication of, here comes more generally to set him to rights in his notions of God’s dealings with him. His other friends had stood …
Commentary On Job Chapter 34:1-37
CHAPTER 34 Elihu, it is likely, paused awhile, to see if Job had anything to say against his discourse in the foregoing chapter; but he sitting silent, and it is likely intimating his desire that he would go on, he here proceeds. And, I. He …
Commentary on Job Chapter 32:1-22
CHAPTER 32 Elihu Rebukes Job’s Three Friends The stage is clear, for Job and his three friends have sat down, and neither he nor they have anything more to say; it is therefore very seasonable for a moderator to interpose, and Elihu is the man. …
Commentary On Job 23:1-17
Job 23:1–7 (ESV) 1 Then Job answered and said: 2 “Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning. 3 Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! 4 I …
Commentary On Job 12:12-25
Job 12:12–25 (ESV) 12 Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days. 13 “With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding. 14 If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open. 15 …
Commentary On Job 4:1-21
CHAPTER 4 Job having warmly given vent to his passion, and so broken the ice, his friends here come gravely to give vent to their judgment upon his case, which perhaps they had communicated to one another apart, compared notes upon it and talked it …
Commentary On Job 3:1-26
“You have heard of the patience of Job,” says the apostle, Jam. 5:11. So we have, and of his impatience too. We wondered that a man should be so patient as he was (ch. 1 and 2), but we wonder also that a good man …
Commentary On Job 2:1-10
Job 2:1–6 (ESV) 1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD. 2 And the LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” …
Commentary On Job 1:20-22
Job 1:20–22 (ESV) 20 Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. 21 And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; …