Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 13:6
i.e. Attend to it, and consider it more seriously than you have done. The pleadings of my lips, i.e. the arguments which I shall produce. read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 13:7
Will you utter falsehoods upon pretence of pleasing God, or of maintaining God’s honour or justice? Doth he need such defences? read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 13:8
Will ye accept his person? not judging according to the right of the cause, but the quality of the person, as corrupt judges do. Will ye contend, i.e. wrangle and quarrel with me, and cavil at my speeches, and pervert my meaning? For God, i.e. that you may gratify him, or defend his rights. read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 13:9
Is it good? will it be to your credit and comfort? Search you out, i.e. narrowly examine your hearts and discourses, whether you have uttered truth or falsehood, and whether your speeches proceed from true zeal for God, or from your own prejudices and passions, and from a desire to curry favour with him. Do ye so mock him, to wit, by covering your uncharitableness and corrupt affections with pretences of piety, as if God could not discern your artifices; or by pleading his cause with weak and... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 13:10
i.e. Punish you; as this word is oft used, as hath been once and again observed. Secretly; though it be concealed in your own breasts, and no eye see it; yea, though it be so close that your own minds and consciences, through ignorance, or inadvertency, or slothfulness, do not perceive it; yet He, who is greater than your consciences, sees and knows it. read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 13:11
His excellency; his infinite wisdom, which sees your secret falsehoods; and his justice and power, which can and will punish you for it. Make you afraid of speaking rashly or falsely of his ways and counsels. read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 13:12
Your remembrances; either, 1. Actively, i.e. your memorials, or your discourses and arguments, by which you design to bring things to my remembrance. So he might possibly allude to that passage, Job 4:7. Remember, I pray thee, &c. That and all your other mementos are like unto ashes, i.e. contemptible and unprofitable, Heb. are parables, or speeches, of dust, or ashes. Or, 2. Passively; all that which is most excellent and memorable in you, your wealth, and dignity, and wit, and reputation,... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 13:13
Do not now interrupt me in my discourse; which peradventure he observed by their gestures some of them were now attempting. That I may speak; that I may freely utter my whole mind. Let come on me what will: for the event of my discourse with God, wherewith you threaten me, I am willing to submit myself to him, to do with me as he pleaseth; for I know he will not judge so severely and partially of me, or my words, as you do, but will accept what is good, and pass by any circumstantial defects in... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 13:14
According to this translation the sense seems to be this, If you speak truth, and God punisheth none but wicked men, why doth he bring me (whom he knows to be no hypocrite, as you slander me) to that extremity of pain and misery, that I am almost constrained to tear and eat my own flesh, (which is mentioned as the character of men in great anguish, Isaiah 9:20; Isaiah 49:26) and am ready to lay violent hands upon myself? Is it so great a crime to complain in this case, or at least to inquire... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 13:5
For then your ignorance and folly had been concealed, which is now manifest. Compare Proverbs 17:28. read more