Job 13:23-28 NIV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:26

Thou writest bitter things against me - The indictment is filled with bitter or grievous charges, which, if proved, would bring me to bitter punishment. The iniquities of my youth - The Levities and indiscretions of my youth I acknowledge; but is this a ground on which to form charges against a man the integrity of whose life is unimpeachable? read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:27

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks - בסד bassad , "in a clog," such as was tied to the feet of slaves, to prevent them from running away. This is still used in the West Indies, among slave-dealers; and is there called the pudding, being a large collar of iron, locked round the ankle of the unfortunate man. Some have had them twenty pounds' weight; and, having been condemned to carry them for several years, when released could not walk without them! A case of this kind I knew: The... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:28

And he, as a rotten thing - I am like a vessel made of skin; rotten, because of old age, or like a garment corroded by the moth. So the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic understood it. The word he may refer to himself. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:14-28

The appeal is now to God; but Job prefaces it by excusing his boldness (verses 14-19). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:17-28

Job to God: resumption of the third controversy: 1. The pleading of a saint with Heaven. I. PRELIMINARIES TO THE PLEADING . 1 . Public audience invited. Job requests his discomfited friends to be silent spectators of the ensuing trial, and to attentively consider the defence he was about to offer (verse 17). Intended chiefly for the ear of God, it should yet contain nothing unfit for publication in the hearing of men. Conscious of sincerity, Job had nothing to conceal.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:23

How many are mine iniquities and sins? This is scarcely, as Professor Stanley Leathes represents it, "a deep confession of personal sin". It is more in the nature of a remonstrance. "These sins of mine, for which I. am so grievously punished, what are they? Name them. How many are there of them? Let me know exactly what they are; and then I can question my conscience concerning them." Make me to know my transgression and my sin . These words imply that lie does not know them at present. He... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:23

The knowledge of sin. I. MAKE ME TO KNOW THE REALITY OF SIN , in case I should deny it and be deceived. II. MAKE ME TO KNOW THE POWER OF SIN , lest, being taken unawares, I should become its slave. III. MAKE ME TO KNOW THE HEINOUSNESS OF SIN , lest, making light of it, I should be led to glory in my shame. IV. MAKE ME TO KNOW THE GUILT OF SIN , lest, being indifferent to its danger, I should, fail to seek escape. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:23

Sin revealed by God. Job is in a sad perplexity. His friends accuse him of great sin as the cause of his great trouble, but his conscience does not echo their accusation. Can it be that he has sinned unconsciously, that God is really angry with him for some offence which he has not recognized? I. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO SIN UNCONSCIOUSLY . It is not to be supposed that a man could be as guilty as Job's friends assumed the patriarch to be, and yet possess the clean conscience... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:23-28

Self-defence before God: 1. The weak against the Strong. I. THE CRY OF INJURED INNOCENCE . ( Job 13:23 .) He asks that he may have his sins enumerated and brought home to him, and that he may not thus ever be punished without the knowledge of the nature of his guilt. II. SENSE OF THE SILENCE AND WITHDRAWAL OF GOD . ( Job 13:24 ) God does not answer his challenge, and still his suffering continues, as if he were a foe to whom the Almighty deigns not to utter... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:24

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? What is thy reason for withdrawing from me the light of thy countenance, and behaving towards me as though thou weft mine enemy? Job does not believe God to be his enemy. He knows that God will one day be his Salvation (verse 16); but he recognizes a present alienation, and desires to be made acquainted with the cause of it. read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:26

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:27

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:28

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:14-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:17-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:23

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:23

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:23

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:23-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:24

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