Job 31

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:3

Is not destruction to the wicked - If I had been guilty of such secret hypocritical proceedings, professing faith in the true God while in eye and heart an idolater, would not such a worker of iniquity be distinguished by a strange and unheard-of punishment? read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:4

Doth not he see my ways - Can I suppose that I could screen myself from the eye of God while guilty of such iniquities? read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:5

If I have walked with vanity - If I have been guilty of idolatry, or the worshipping of a false god: for thus שאו shau , which we here translate vanity, is used Jeremiah 18:15 ; (compare with Psalm 31:6 ; Hosea 12:11 ; and Jonah 2:9 ;), and it seems evident that the whole of Job's discourse here is a vindication of himself from all idolatrous dispositions and practices. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:6

Mine integrity - תמתי tummathi , my perfection; the totality of my unblameable life. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:7

If my step hath turned out of the way - I am willing to be sifted to the uttermost - for every step of my foot, for every thought of my heart, for every look of mine eye, and for every act of my hands. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:8

Let me sow, and let another eat - Let me be plagued both in my circumstances and in my family. My offspring be rooted out - It has already appeared probable that all Job's children were not destroyed in the fall of the house mentioned Job 1:18 , Job 1:19 . read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:9

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman - The Septuagint add, ανδρος ἑτερου , another man's wife. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:10

Let my wife grind unto another - Let her work at the handmill, grinding corn; which was the severe work of the meanest slave. In this sense the passage is understood both by the Syriac and Arabic. See Exodus 11:5 ; (note), and Isaiah 47:2 ; (note); and see at the end of the chapter, Isaiah 31:8 ; (note). And let others bow down upon her - Let her be in such a state as to have no command of her own person; her owner disposing of her person as he pleases. In Asiatic countries slaves... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:11

For this is a heinous crime - Mr. Good translates, "For this would be a premeditated crime, And a profligacy of the understanding." See also Job 31:28 . That is, It would not only be a sin against the individuals more particularly concerned, but a sin of the first magnitude against society; and one of which the civil magistrate should take particular cognizance, and punish as justice requires. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:12

For it is a fire - Nothing is so destructive of domestic peace. Where jealousy exists, unmixed misery dwells; and the adulterer and fornicator waste their substance on the unlawful objects of their impure affections. read more

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