Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 13:21
21. (See on :- and see Psalms 39:10). read more
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Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 13:22
22. call—a challenge to the defendant to answer to the charges. answer—the defense begun. speak—as plaintiff. answer—to the plea of the plaintiff. Expressions from a trial. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 13:23
23. The catalogue of my sins ought to be great, to judge from the severity with which God ever anew crushes one already bowed down. Would that He would reckon them up! He then would see how much my calamities outnumber them. sin?—singular, "I am unconscious of a single particular sin, much less many" [UMBREIT]. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 13:24
24. hidest . . . face—a figure from the gloomy impression caused by the sudden clouding over of the sun. enemy—God treated Job as an enemy who must be robbed of power by ceaseless sufferings (Job 7:17; Job 7:21). read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 13:25
25. (Leviticus 26:36; Psalms 1:4). Job compares himself to a leaf already fallen, which the storm still chases hither and thither. break—literally, "shake with (Thy) terrors." Jesus Christ does not "break the bruised reed" (Isaiah 42:3; Isaiah 27:8). read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 13:26
26. writest—a judicial phrase, to note down the determined punishment. The sentence of the condemned used to be written down (Isaiah 10:1; Jeremiah 22:30; Psalms 149:9) [UMBREIT]. bitter things—bitter punishments. makest me to possess—or "inherit." In old age he receives possession of the inheritance of sin thoughtlessly acquired in youth. "To inherit sins" is to inherit the punishments inseparably connected with them in Hebrew ideas (Psalms 149:9- :). read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 13:27
27. stocks—in which the prisoner's feet were made fast until the time of execution ( :-). lookest narrowly—as an overseer would watch a prisoner. print—Either the stocks, or his disease, marked his soles (Hebrew, "roots") as the bastinado would. Better, thou drawest (or diggest) [GESENIUS] a line (or trench) [GESENIUS] round my soles, beyond which I must not move [UMBREIT]. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 13:28
28. Job speaks of himself in the third person, thus forming the transition to the general lot of man (Job 14:1; Psalms 39:11; Hosea 5:12). read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 13:1-19
Job’s repudiation of his friends 12:1-13:19Job 12:2 is irony; his companions were not as wise as they thought. Job pointed out that much of what they had said about God was common knowledge (cf. Job 5:9-10; Job 8:13-19; Job 11:7-9). Nonetheless their conclusion, that the basis of man’s relationship with God is his deeds, did not fit the facts of life. Job cited his own case as proof, as well as the fact that the wicked often prosper (Job 12:6). He said even the animals know that God sends... read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 13:20
20. Address to God. not hide—stand forth boldly to maintain my cause. read more