Job 1:6-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:13

And there was a day ,.... Which according to the Targum was the first day of the week, but this is not certain, nor material; nor can it be said whether it was the day following that, Satan had leave to do what he would with Job's substance, nor how long this was after that; for though Satan was no doubt eager upon it, and in haste to do mischief; yet besides its requiring some time to get the Sabeans and Chaldeans to march out of their own country into Job's, so he would contrive and fix... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:14

And there came a messenger unto Job ,.... Not a messenger of Satan, as Jarchi, or one of his angels, or evil spirits; though this is a sense which is embraced not only by some Jewish Rabbins, but by several of the ancient Christian writers, as Sanctius on the place observes; and such they suppose the other messengers after mentioned were; but both this and they were servants of Job, who escaped the calamity that came upon the rest of their fellow servants: and said, the oxen were... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:15

And the Sabeans fell upon them ,.... Or, "Sheba fell" F5 ותפל שבא "et delapsa est Seba", Montanus, Bolducius; "et irruit Sheba", Schmidt, Cocceius. ; that is, as Aben Ezra and Simeon Bar Tzemach supply it, an host of the Sabeans, or a company of them; these were not the descendants of that Sheba that sprung from Ham, Genesis 10:7 nor of him that came from Shem, Genesis 10:28 , but from Sheba, the son of Jokshan, a son of Abraham by Keturah, who with the rest of her sons were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:16

While he was yet speaking, there came also another ,.... Another messenger, one of Job's servants, from another part of his fields where his sheep were grazing, and was one of those that kept them; he came with another piece of bad news, even before the other had finished his whole account; and the same is observed of all the other messengers that follow: so Satan ordered it, that all Job's afflictions should come upon him at once, and the news of them be brought him as thick and as fast as... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:17

While he was yet speaking, there came also another ,.... Another messenger from another part of Job's possessions, where his camels were, and this before the last messenger had told his story out: and said, the Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away ; these were the 3000 camels, as in Job 1:3 and perhaps they were in three separate companies and places, 1000 in each, and therefore the Chaldeans divided themselves into three bands; or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:18

While he was yet speaking, there came another ,.... A servant of one of Job's sons, who was in waiting at the feast before mentioned, and here again repeated: and said, thy sons and thy daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house ; See Gill on Job 1:13 . read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:19

And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness ,.... Most probably from the wilderness of Arabia, winds from such places being generally very strong, Jeremiah 4:11 as this was, and is called a "great one", a very strong and blustering one; and being so, and because of the effects of it, and being an uncommon and extraordinary one, as what follows shows, a "behold" is prefixed to the account, exciting attention and wonder: and smote the four corners of the house ; which shows... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:20

Then Job arose ,.... Either from table, being at dinner, as some think, in his own house; it being the time that his children were feasting in their eldest brother's house; or from the business in which he was employed, which he stopped on hearing this news; or from his seat, or chair of state in which he sat; or rather the phrase only signifies, that he at once, with strength of body, and rigour of mind, which were not lost, as often they are in such cases, went about the following things... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:21

And said, naked came I out of my mother's womb ,.... Either literally, where he was conceived and lay, and from whence he came into the world, though he afterwards wishes he never had, or had died as soon as he did, Job 3:10 , and so it is expressive of his birth, and the circumstance of it; or figuratively, his mother earth, from whence the first man sprang, and so all his posterity with him, being as he of the earth, earthly, see Ecclesiastes 12:7 , which sense is mentioned by Jarchi... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:22

In all this Job sinned not ,.... Not that he was without sin, he was conscious to himself of it, and owns it, Job 9:20 ; but in all the above things he did or said he sinned not; not in his rending his garments, in shaving his head, and laying himself prostrate on the ground, which were done as common usages in such cases, and not through excess of passion; nor in anything that dropped from his lips, which were ill-becoming the character he bore as a religious man; and though he might be... read more

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