Job 27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:6

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, and desire, with the Apostle Paul, not to be found in it, Philemon 3:9 . Indeed the righteousness of his living Redeemer, which was his, and he might call so, this he knew, and knew he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:7

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 outward prosperity in this world; yet he was far from approving of or conniving at their wickedness and hypocrisy, or choosing them for his companions, and joining with them in their actions, or... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:8

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 have an hope, as he has, of an interest in the divine layout, and of eternal glory and happiness, what will it signify? what avail will it be unto him? what will it issue in? Job was of the same... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:9

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, Psalm 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 death comes, he is a king of terrors to them, and they find sorrow and trouble; and especially at the day of judgment, when they will cry for mercy; and hypocrites, as the foolish virgins,... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:10

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 hell; nor his omniscience, who, searches and knows the hearts of all men, and the insincerity of the hypocrite, covert to men soever he is; nor in his holiness, which at heart he loves not; nor in... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:11

I will teach you by the hand of God ,.... To serve God, and speak truth, says one of the Jewish commentators F7 Simeon Bar Tzemach. ; 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 outward prosperity and happiness, and what in the issue will be their case and circumstances; wherefore some render the words, "I will teach you the hand of God", or... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:12

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 like a green bay tree, and the hypocrites in easy and flourishing circumstances, and good men labouring under great afflictions and pressures, and Job himself was now an instance of that before... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:13

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 wicked man, but one also that is so secretly, under a mask of sobriety, religion, and godliness, and is an hypocrite, for of such Job speaks in the context; and the portion of such a man is not what... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:14

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, Esther 9:12 , it is for the sword ; for them that kill with the sword, as the Targum; to be killed with it, as in the two instances above; Haman's ten sons were slain by the sword of the Jews, Esther 9:13 , and Ahab's seventy sons by the sword of Jehu, or those he ordered to... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:15

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 Revelation 6:8 . This is another of God's sore public judgments wicked men, and is such a kind of death, by reason of the contagion of it, that a person is buried as soon as dead almost, being infectious to keep him; and so Mr. Broughton translates... read more

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