Job 2:12

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Job 2:9-13

Job's Sorrows and Sighs Job 2:9-13 ; Job 3:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In this study we will consider the verses which lie in the second chapter of Job beginning with verse nine where we left off in the former study and continuing through verse thirteen. 1. A helpmeet who proved a hindrance. Job's wife came unto him in verse nine of chapter two and said unto him, "Dost thou still retain thine integrity, curse God, and die." If ever there was a time that Job needed words of sympathy and of love... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 2:11-13

Job 2:11-1 Chronicles : . Job’ s Three Friends Come to Condole with him.— The friends are Eastern princes like himself (LXX kings), hence live at a distance. “ They knew him not,” because he was so disfigured. They threw dust upon their heads, symbolising that Job s fortune and they themselves along with it are ruined by heaven-sent calamities, as a fertile land might be by dust-showers. They are so overwhelmed, that they sit seven days and seven nights, mourning for Job as if he were dead. “... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 2:12

Afar off, to wit, at some convenient distance from him; whom they found sitting upon the ground, either in the open air, or within his own house. Knew him not; his countenance being so fearfully changed and disfigured by his boils. Sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven; either upon the upper part of their heads, which look towards heaven; or cast it up into the air, so as it should fall upon their heads, as they did Acts 22:23. See Joshua 6:6; Nehemiah 9:1; Lamentations 2:10. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 2:11-13

CONCLUDING PART OF PROSE INTRODUCTION.—VISIT OF JOB’S FRIENDSI. The Friends. (Job 2:11.) “Now when Job’s three friends heard.” Rather, “three friends of Job.” Probably friends most intimate with him, and from whom he had most to expect (ch Job 6:14-15). Perhaps connected with him by kindred as well as acquaintance and religion. Worshippers of the true God. Eminent in their day and country for wisdom and piety. Their religions views those of the age. Regarded retribution as very much a thing of... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Job 2:11-13

DISCOURSE: 452FRIENDLY SYMPATHY ILLUSTRATEDJob 2:11-13. Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 2:1-13

Chapter 2So back again to the heavenly scene.Another day and again the sons of God are presenting themselves before Jehovah, and Satan is coming with them to present himself before the LORD ( Job 2:1 ).I have to say concerning Satan, I do... well, what do you say, admire? This guy has a lot of chutzpah. I mean, to go in and stand before God, to present himself before God takes quite a bit.And God again said, [Hey,] where have you been? ( Job 2:2 )As though God doesn't know.He said, [Oh, I've... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 2:1-13

Job 2:1 . There was a day when the sons of God &c. As on the former chapter, Job 2:6. Job 2:4 . Skin for skin. Septuagint, “skin after skin.” Men’s riches in the first periods of society very much consisted in cattle and skins; and the honest man would sooner give up his skins to the Arabian robbers than his life. But as the Hebrew language labours under many difficulties from the bearing of its prepositions, those who follow the LXX, “skin after skin,” make the sense to be, that... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 2:12

Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. Ver. 12. And when they lift up their eyes afar off ] Hence some conclude that Job lay abroad, as lepers used. And knew him not ] For they had never seen him before but in a splendidious fashion; now then to see him in such a pickle, that he had lost all form and fashion, more like a dead beast than... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 2:12

knew him: Job 19:14, Ruth 1:19-Ecclesiastes :, Lamentations 4:7, Lamentations 4:8 their voice: Genesis 27:34, Judges 2:4, 1 Samuel 11:4, 1 Samuel 30:4, 2 Samuel 13:36, Esther 4:1 they rent: Job 1:20 sprinkled dust upon: Nehemiah 9:1, Lamentations 2:10, Ezekiel 27:30, Revelation 18:19 Reciprocal: Genesis 33:4 - embraced Genesis 37:34 - General Exodus 33:4 - and no Numbers 5:17 - of the dust Joshua 7:6 - put dust 1 Samuel 4:12 - with earth 2 Samuel 13:19 - put ashes Ezra 9:3 - sat Job 14:20... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 2:12

12. They lifted up their voice Sir John Chardin (year 1676) says of the people of Asia, that “their cries are long in the case of death, and frightful, for the mourning is right-down despair, and an image of hell.” Click image for full-size versionThe moment the mistress of the house next to his (at Ispahan) expired, “all the family, to the number of twenty-five or thirty people, set up such a furious cry that I was quite startled, and was above two hours before I could recover myself.... read more