Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 27:1-23
JOB’S REPLY TO THE FRIENDS IN GENERALJob now alone in the field. Zophar, who should have followed Bildad, and to whom Job had given opportunity to speak, has apparently nothing to say. Job, therefore, after a pause, resumes his discourse, but in a different tone. Speaks more calmly, and even more solemnly. Declares, even with an appeal to the Almighty, that, notwithstanding all he still suffers at the hand of God, and however God seems to treat him as a guilty person, he is resolved, as a... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 27:17
The just shall put it on; either because it shall be given to him by the judge to recompense those injuries which he received from that tyrant; or because the right of it is otherwise transferred upon him by Divine Providence. The innocent shall divide the silver; either, 1. To the poor; he shall distribute that which the oppressor hoarded up and kept as wickedly as he got it. So this suits with Proverbs 28:8; Ecclesiastes 2:26. Or, 2. With others, or to himself; he shall have a share of it,... read more