ヨブ記 31:33-40 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 31:33-40

We have here Job's protestation against three more sins, together with his general appeal to God's bar and his petition for a hearing there, which, it is likely, was intended to conclude his discourse (and therefore we will consider it last), but that another particular sin occurred, from which he thought it requisite to acquit himself. He clears himself from the charge, I. Of dissimulation and hypocrisy. The general crime of which his friends accused him was that, under the cloak of a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:33

If I covered my transgressions as Adam ,.... Job could not be understood, by this account he had given of the holiness of his life, that he thought himself quite free from sin; he had owned himself to be a sinner in several places before, and disclaimed perfection; and here he acknowledges he was guilty of transgressing the law of God, and that in many instances; for he speaks of his "transgressions" in the plural number; but then he did not seek to cover them from the of God or men, but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:34

Did I fear a great multitude ?.... No, they did not deter him from confessing his sin in the most public manner, when sensible or convicted of it, and when such a public acknowledgment was necessary: or did the contempt of families terrify me ? no, the contempt he might suppose he should be had in by some families that knew him, and he was well acquainted with, did not terrify him from making a free and ingenuous confession of his sins: that I kept silence ; or "did I keep silence", ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:35

Oh, that one would hear me !.... Or, "who will give me a hearer?" F12 מי יתן לי שמע לי "quis dabit mihi audientem me?" Montanus; "utinam sit mihi auditor", Tigurine version. Oh, that I had one! not a nearer of him as a teacher and instructor of many, as he had been, Job 4:3 ; or only to hear what he had delivered in this chapter; but to hear his cause, and hear him plead his own cause in a judiciary way; he does not mean an ordinary hearer, one that, comes out of curiosity... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:36

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder ,.... The bill of indictment, the charge in writing; this he would take up and carry on his shoulder as a very light thing, having nothing weighty in it, no charge of sin and guilt to bear him down; nothing but what he could easily stand up under, only some trifling matter, which could not be interpreted sin; for anything of that kind would have been a burden too heavy for him to have borne: or else his sense is, that should he be convicted of any sin,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:37

I would declare to him the number of my steps ,.... To his judge, or to him that contended with him, and drew up the bill against him; he would forward it, assist in it, furnish materials for it, give an account of all the transactions of his life that he could remember; this he says not as though he thought that God stood in need of any such declaration, since he better knows the actions of men than they themselves, compasses their paths, and is acquainted with all their ways; but to show... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:38

If my land cry against me ,.... Some think that this verse and Job 31:39 stand out of their place, and should rather follow after Job 31:34 ; and some place them after Job 31:25 ; and others after Job 31:8 ; but this is the order of them in all copies and versions, as they stand in our Bibles; and here, after Job had expressed his desire to have a hearer and judge of his cause, and his charge exhibited in writing, and his confidence of the issue of it, should it be granted, returns... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:39

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money ,.... Or, "the strength thereof without silver" F2 ; see Genesis 4:12 , silver being the money chiefly in use in those times. Job's meaning is, that he ate not anything of the fruits and increase of his own land, without having paid for the same, which he would have done, if he had got his land out of the hands of the rightful owners of it, by deceit or violence; or if he had not paid his workmen for ploughing, sowing, reaping,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:40

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley ,.... This is an imprecation of Job's, in which he wishes that if what he had said was not true, or if he was guilty of the crimes he denied, that when and where he sowed wheat, thorns or thistles might come up instead of it, or tares, as some Jewish writers F4 Bar Tzemach, et alii. interpret it; and that when and where he should sow barley, cockle, or darnel, or any "stinking" or "harmful" weed F5 באשה "herba... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:33

If I covered my transgressions as Adam - Here is a most evident allusion to the fall. Adam transgressed the commandment of his Maker, and he endeavored to conceal it; first, by hiding himself among the trees of the garden: "I heard thy voice, and went and Hid myself;" secondly, by laying the blame on his wife: "The woman gave me, and I did eat;" and thirdly, by charging the whole directly on God himself: "The woman which Thou Gavest Me to be with me, She gave me of the tree, and I did eat."... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 31:33-40

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:37

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:38

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:39

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:40

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:33

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