Job 27

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 27:14

If his children be multiplied - As numerous families were supposed to be a proof of the benediction of the Almighty, Job shows that this is not always the case; for the offspring of the wicked shall be partly cut off by violent deaths, and partly reduced to great poverty. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 27:15

Those that remain of him - שרידיו seridaiv , his remains, whether meaning himself personally, or his family. Shall be buried in death - Shall come to utter and remediless destruction. Death shall have his full conquest over them, and the grave its complete victory. These are no common dead. All the sting, all the wound, and all the poison of sin, remains: and so evident are God's judgments in his and their removal, that even widows shall not weep for them; the public shall not bewail... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 27:16

Though he heap up silver - Though he amass riches in the greatest abundance, he shall not enjoy them. Unsanctified wealth is a curse to its possessor. Money, of all earthly possessions, is the most dangerous, as it is the readiest agent to do good or evil. He that perverts it is doubly cursed, because it affords him the most immediate means of sinful gratification; and he can sin more in an hour through this, than he can in a day or week by any other kind of property. On the other hand, they... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 27:17

The just shall put it on - Money is God's property. "The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord;" and though it may be abused for a time by unrighteous hands, God, in the course of his providence, brings it back to its proper use; and often the righteous possess the inheritance of the wicked. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 27:18

He buildeth his house as a moth - With great skill, great pains, and great industry; but the structure, however skillful, shall be dissolved; and the materials, however costly, shall be brought to corruption. To its owner it shall be only a temporary habitation, like that which the moth makes in its larve or caterpillar state, during its change from a chrysalis to a winged insect. As a booth that the keeper maketh - A shed which the watchman or keeper of a vineyard erects to cover him... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 27:19

The rich man shall lie down - In the grave. But he shall not be gathered - Neither have a respectable burial among men, nor be gathered with the righteous in the kingdom of God. It may be that Job alludes here to an opinion relative to the state of certain persons after death, prevalent in all nations in ancient times, viz., that those whose funeral rites had not been duly performed, wander about as ghosts, and find no rest. He openeth his eyes - In the morning of the resurrection. ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 27:20

Terrors take hold on him as waters - They come upon him as an irresistible flood; and he is overwhelmed as by a tempest in the night, when darkness partly hides his danger, and deprives him of discerning the way to escape. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 27:21

The east wind carrieth him away - Such as is called by Mr. Good, a levanter, the euroclydon, the eastern storm of Acts 27:14 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 27:22

God shall cast upon him - Or, rather, the storm mentioned above shall incessantly pelt him, and give him no respite; nor can he by any means escape from its fury. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 27:23

Men shall clap their hands at him - These two verses refer to the storm, which is to sweep away the ungodly; therefore the word God, in Job 27:22 , and men in this verse, should be omitted. Job 27:22 ; : "For it shall fall upon him, and not spare: flying from its power he shall continue to fly. Job 27:23 . It shall clap its hands against him, and hiss, וישרק veyishrok , shriek, him out of his place." read more

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