Job 27

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:14-15

Job 27:14-15. It is for the sword That they may be cut off by the sword, either of war or of justice: and his offspring, &c. Shall be starved, or shall want necessaries. Those that remain of him Who survive that sword and famine; shall be buried in death “Shall be reduced to so great a degree of misery,” says Schultens, “that where they die, there they shall rot, and no person shall bury them: they shall have death itself, (so he renders the text,) for their sepulchre.” It is... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:16-18

Job 27:16-18. Prepare raiment as the clay In great abundance. But the just shall put it on Either because it shall be given to him by the magistrate, to recompense him for those injuries which he had received from the oppressor; or because the right of it is, in some other way, transferred upon him by divine providence. He buildeth his house as a moth Which settleth itself in a garment, but is quickly and unexpectedly dispossessed of its dwelling, and crushed to death. And as a booth, ... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:19

Job 27:19. The rich man shall lie down In death; but he shall not be gathered Namely, in burial, as this word יאס Š, jeaseph, is often used. Instead of that honourable interment with his fathers, which he expected, his carcass shall lie like dung upon the earth. He openeth, or, one openeth his eyes, and he is not That is, while a man can open his eyes, in a moment, or in the twinkling of an eye, he is as if he had never been; he is dead and gone, and his family and name are extinct... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:20

Job 27:20. Terrors take hold on him From the sense of approaching death or judgment. As waters As violently and irresistibly as a river breaking its banks, or a deluge of waters bears down all before it. A tempest stealeth, &c. God’s wrath cometh upon him like a tempest, and withal unexpectedly like a thief in the night. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:21-22

Job 27:21-22. The east wind Some terrible judgment, fitly compared to the east wind, which, in those parts, was most vehement, furious, pestilential, and destructive; carrieth him away Out of his place, as it follows; out of his stately mansion, where he expected to dwell for ever; whence he shall be carried, either by an enemy or by death. For God shall cast upon him His darts or plagues, one after another and not spare That is, shall show no pity or mercy to him when he crieth to... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:23

Job 27:23. Men Who shall see and observe these things; shall clap their hands at him In token of their joy, at the removal of such a public pest and tyrant; and by way of astonishment, as also in contempt and scorn; all which this action signifies in Scripture. And shall hiss him out of his place In token of detestation and derision. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 27:1-23

27:1-31:40 JOB’S SUMMARYThe traditional teaching (27:1-23)According to the established pattern of the debate, Zophar should speak next, but when he does not, Job proceeds to summarize his own position. He restates that, in spite of his suffering and bitterness, he is innocent of the great wrongdoing of which they accuse him, and he assures them that he intends to remain innocent (27:1-6).Job knows as well as his friends do that the ungodly will, in the end, be punished and no final cry for... read more

E.W. Bullinger

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:14-15

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:16-18

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:19

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:20

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:21-22

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:23

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 27:1-23

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 27:2

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 27:3

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 27:4

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