Job 13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:19

Who is he that will plead with me? - Let my accuser, the plaintiff, come forward; I will defend my cause against him. I shall give up the ghost - I shall cease to breathe. Defending myself will be as respiration unto me; or, While he is stating his case, I will be so silent as scarcely to appear to breathe. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:20

Only do not two things unto me - These two things are the following: Withdraw thine hand far from me - remove the heavy affliction which thy hand has inflicted. Let not thy dread make me afraid - terrify me not with dreadful displays of thy majesty. The reasons of this request are sufficiently evident: How can a man stand in a court of justice and plead for his life, when under grievous bodily affliction? Withdraw thy hand far from me. 2. Is it to be expected that a man can be... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:22

Then call thou - Begin thou first to plead, and I will answer for myself; or, I will first state and defend my own case, and then answer thou me. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:23

How many are mine iniquities - Job being permitted to begin first, enters immediately upon the subject; and as it was a fact that he was grievously afflicted, and this his friends asserted was in consequence of grievous iniquities, he first desires to have them specified. What are the specific charges in this indictment? To say I must be a sinner to be thus afflicted, is saying nothing; tell me what are the sins, and show me the proofs. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:24

Wherefore hidest thou thy face - Why is it that I no longer enjoy thy approbation? Holdest me for thine enemy? - Treatest me as if I were the vilest of sinners? read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:25

Wilt thou break a leaf - Is it becoming thy dignity to concern thyself with a creature so contemptible? read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:26

Thou writest bitter things against me - The indictment is filled with bitter or grievous charges, which, if proved, would bring me to bitter punishment. The iniquities of my youth - The Levities and indiscretions of my youth I acknowledge; but is this a ground on which to form charges against a man the integrity of whose life is unimpeachable? read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:27

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks - בסד bassad , "in a clog," such as was tied to the feet of slaves, to prevent them from running away. This is still used in the West Indies, among slave-dealers; and is there called the pudding, being a large collar of iron, locked round the ankle of the unfortunate man. Some have had them twenty pounds' weight; and, having been condemned to carry them for several years, when released could not walk without them! A case of this kind I knew: The... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:28

And he, as a rotten thing - I am like a vessel made of skin; rotten, because of old age, or like a garment corroded by the moth. So the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic understood it. The word he may refer to himself. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:1

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it . All the particulars mentioned concerning God's government of the world in Job 12:6-25 are derived by Job from his own experience. His eye has seen them or his ear has heard them. He is not indebted to others for information on these simple points, which he regards as necessarily impressed by their experience on all grown men (see Job 12:9 ). read more

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