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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:1-40

Job 31. “ The Oath of Clearing.”— Job’ s final protestation of his innocence, and appeal to God to judge him. This chapter, says Duhm, is the high-water mark of the OT ethic, higher than the Decalogue or even than the prophets, since they deal with social not private morality. Duhm notes especially the humanity towards the slave based on the fact of a common creation, also that we are not to hate our enemies. (Job does not go so far as to say, “ Love your enemies;” that is Christ’ s.) Job... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 31:3

Destruction is their portion, and a strange punishment, some extraordinary and dreadful judgment, which of right and course belongs to them, and only to such as they are, although it hath pleased God out of his sovereign power to inflict it upon me, who have lived in all good conscience before him. Heb. an alienation or estrangement, to wit, from God and from his favour. Had I been such a one, I neither could nor should have expected any kindness or mercy from God, as now I do. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 31:1-40

JOB’S SELF-VINDICATION.—HIS SOLILOQUY CONTINUEDConcludes his speeches by a solemn, particular, and extended declaration of the purity and uprightness of his life. Especial reference to his private, as before to his public, conduct. Intended to silence his accusers and justify his complaints. Affords a picture of an outwardly and blameless character. A specimen, presented in beautiful language, of a pure morality accompanied with, and based upon, an ardent piety and genuine religion. Job... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 31:1-40

Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Job, chapter 31.Job has pretty well talked down all of his friends. Bildad has had his last word and Job is still responding, and has been responding, actually, just generally now to his friends. This last discourse of Job is his longest discourse, and he goes on and on with it. And we have been studying the final response of Job to his friends. His next responses will be to God. But Job is talking about his own righteousness, his own goodness, that... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 31:1-40

Job 31:1 . A maid. The LXX, followed by the Chaldaic, read virgin; but our English version has the most ancient support. Job was pure and spotless in conversation with women. He abhorred seduction, and all its associate crimes. Genesis 34:0. Job 31:28 . I should have denied the God that is above. Job here describes the manner in which the ancient Sabian idolaters worshipped the sun, moon, and stars, by kissing the hand; and his abhorrence of it shows that he was himself educated in the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 31:1-32

Job 31:1-32I made a covenant with mine eyes. Guard the sensesSet a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear. (W. Gurnall.)Methods of moral lifeLet us look at the kind of life Job says he lived, and in doing so let it be remarked that all the critics concur in saying that this chapter contains more jewels of illustration, of figure or metaphor, than probably any other chapter in the whole of the eloquent book. Job is therefore at his... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:3

Job 31:3 [Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity? Ver. 3. Is not destruction to the wicked? ] Yes, that is their portion, their inheritance; and so Job makes answer to his own question proposed in the preceding verse. The ruin of impure souls is infallible, unsupportable, unavoidable; if God hath aversion from all other sinners, he hath hatred and horror for the unchaste; such stinking goats shall be set on the left hand, and sent to hell;... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 31:3

destruction: Job 21:30, Psalms 55:23, Psalms 73:18, Proverbs 1:27, Proverbs 10:29, Proverbs 21:15, Matthew 7:13, Romans 9:22, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, 2 Thessalonians 1:9, 2 Peter 2:1 a strange: Isaiah 28:21, Jude 1:7 Reciprocal: Numbers 16:30 - make a new thing Judges 9:53 - woman Judges 9:56 - God rendered Judges 16:30 - and the house 1 Samuel 5:6 - emerods 1 Samuel 15:18 - the sinners 2 Samuel 17:23 - and hanged 2 Samuel 18:9 - taken up 2 Kings 1:2 - was sick 2 Kings 9:35 - but they found Job... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:3

3. A strange punishment נכר . The word bears a similar meaning in the Arabic. Thus Mohammed: “He shall visit him with a strange, ( nukran,) or awful, penalty.” The punishment of such “workers of iniquity” is strange, extraordinary. The diseases and the remorse that spring from a life of licentiousness are markedly exceptional, and argue peculiar punishment in the next life. read more