Job 1:5

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 1:5

Job 1:5 After the days of his sons' feasting were over, Job offered sacrifices of atonement for them, lest in the midst of their enjoyment they might have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. He was afraid lest their pleasures had done them harm, and he wished, if it were so, to remedy it. I. "It may be," said Job, "that my sons have cursed God in their hearts." The blasphemy of the heart is the natural child of prosperity where man is corrupt and God is pure. Prosperity makes a man feel... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Job 1:5

DISCOURSE: 449JOB’S ANXIETY FOR HIS CHILDRENJob 1:5. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all: for M said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.WHO Job was, or at what precise period he lived, or who wrote the book that is called by his name, is not certainly known. It is probable that... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 1:1-22

Shall we turn now to the book of Job, chapter 1.As we come to the book of Job, we actually enter into a new section of the Old Testament. As you know, the Old Testament is divided into different divisions. The first five books comprising what is often called the Pentateuch, the books of the law. The next several books are historic as they deal with the history of the nation of Israel from the time that they have come out of Egypt and they begin as a nation in the land. And it covers that period... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 1:1-22

Job 1:1 . The land of Uz. Moses is always correct in calling countries after the name of the first possessor. Uz was in the east beyond Jordan, and south of mount Hermon. It fell to the lot of the half tribe of Manasseh, but was partly possessed by the children of Esau. Jeremiah says, “Rejoice, oh daughter of Edom, thou that dwellest in the land of Uz.” This has given rise to what is unproved, that Job is the Jobab of Esau’s race. In keeping to the text of Moses we are safe, that Job was... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 1:4-5

Job 1:4-5And his sons went and feasted in their houses.The family meeting and the family sacrificeI. The festive meeting. “And his sons went,” etc.1. It was a united family. There were no schisms in that body. The sons had all grown up, had their own houses, their own lands, and their own flocks and herds. Yet Ephraim did not envy Judah, and Judah did not vex Ephraim--without jealousies, without shyness, without any affected superiority, without mistrust. “Behold, how good and pleasant a thing... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 1:5

Job 1:5 And it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. Ver. 5. And it was so, that when the days of their feasting were gone about ] Such was his holy care of them, and jealousy over them, that he would defer the work no longer; as... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 1:5

sanctified: Job 41:25, Genesis 35:2, Genesis 35:3, Exodus 19:10, 1 Samuel 16:5, Nehemiah 12:30, John 11:55 rose up: Genesis 22:3, Psalms 5:3, Ecclesiastes 9:10 offered: Job 42:8, Genesis 8:20, Exodus 18:12, Exodus 24:5, Leviticus 1:3-Joshua : according: 1 Kings 18:31, Acts 21:26 It may be: 2 Corinthians 11:2 cursed: Job 1:11, Job 2:9, Leviticus 24:10-Nehemiah :, 1 Kings 21:10, 1 Kings 21:13 in their hearts: Genesis 6:5, Jeremiah 4:14, Jeremiah 17:9, Jeremiah 17:10, Mark 7:21-Isaiah :,... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 1:5

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. When — When each of them had had his turn.Satisfied — He exhorted them to examine their own consciences, to repent of any thing, which had been amiss in their feasting, and compose their minds... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 1:5

5. Sanctified them The Septuagint renders יקדשׁם , “purified them.” Not being present himself at their festivities, Job sent some messenger who should summon them to cleanse themselves, perhaps their garments, (Genesis 35:2; Exodus 19:10,) by some unrecorded process of lustration. Thus they would become ceremonially pure; for thus only would they be prepared to participate in the benefit of the sacrifices he proposed next day to offer. Jacob pursued a similar course with his family prior... read more