Job 27:3

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 27:1-6

Job's discourse here is called a parable (mashal), the title of Solomon's proverbs, because it was grave and weighty, and very instructive, and he spoke as one having authority. It comes from a word that signifies to rule, or have dominion; and some think it intimates that Job now triumphed over his opponents, and spoke as one that had baffled them. We say of an excellent preacher that he knows how dominari in concionibus?to command his hearers. Job did so here. A long strife there had been... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:3

All the while my breath is in me ,.... So long the oath of God would be upon him, or he bound himself under it: and the spirit of God is in my nostrils ; which signifies the same thing. The breath of a man is his spirit, and this is of God, the Father of spirits; he first breathed into man the breath of life, and he became a living soul or spirit, Genesis 2:7 ; it is he that gives life and breath to every man, Acts 17:25 , and continues it as long as he pleases, which is a very... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 27:3

All the while my breath is in me - As Job appears to allude to the creation of Adam, whom God made out of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that he became a living soul, the whole of Job's assertion may be no more than a periphrasis for As long as I live and have my understanding. Indeed נשמתי nishmathi may be rendered my mind or understanding, and אלוה רוח ruach Eloah , the breath of God, the principle of animal life, the same that he... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:1-4

Moral honesty. Job now almost loses sight of his vexatious friends as he breaks out into a long discourse. His first thought is to assert his integrity, without flinching before the charges that have been so recklessly flung at him. He will not confess sins of which he is not guilty. It required some courage for him to take this stand, for he was sorely pressed to yield to insincerity. I. THE TEMPTATION TO INSINCERITY . This is many-sided, springing from various sources. 1 . ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:1-10

Job's first parable: 1. The transgressions of a godly man. I. A DARING ACCUSATION . 1 . Against whom directed? Against Eloah, the All-sufficient One; Shaddai, the All-powerful One, the Self-existent, Living One, whose universal dominion, resistless might, and ineffable majesty Bildad ( Job 25:1-3 ) and Job himself ( Job 26:5-14 ) had eloquently pictured. With exalted conceptions of the transcendent greatness of the invisible Supreme, whose continual presence also he vividly... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:1-23

This chapter divides itself into three distinct portions. In the first, which extends to the end of Job 27:6 , Job is engaged in maintaining, with the utmost possible solemnity (verse 2), both his actual integrity (verse 6) and his determination to hold fast his integrity as long as he lives (verses 4-6). In the second (verses 7-10) he implicates a curse upon his enemies. In the third (verses 11-23) he returns to the consideration of God's treatment of the wicked, and retracts the view... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:1-23

Job a victor in the controversy. After the last speech of Job the friends appear to be completely overcome and silenced, and the third of them does not venture to renew the attack. The sufferer therefore continues, in a speech of high poetic beauty, to instruct the friends, while once more insisting on his own innocence. I. INNOCENCE MAINTAINED . (Verses 2-10.) 1 . Conscious rectitude of resolve. (Verses 2-4.) In the profoundest sense that his thoughts are open to the eye of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:3

All the while my breath is in me. This verse is parenthetic. Job claims in it to be in possession of all his faculties, notwithstanding his sufferings. The right translation would seem to be, "For my life is yet whole within me" (see the Revised Version). And the spirit of God is in my nostrils . The spirit of God, originally breathed into man's nostrils, whereby he became a living soul ( Genesis 2:7 ), is still, Job says, within him, and makes him capable of judging and declaring what... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 27:3

And the spirit of God is in my nostrils - As long as I live. The “spirit of God” here means the breath that God breathed into man when he created him, Genesis 2:7. It would seem probable that there was an allusion to that fact by the language here, and that the knowledge of the way in which man was created was thus handed down by tradition. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:1-4

Job 27:1-4. Job continued his parable His grave and weighty discourse. As God liveth He confirms the truth of his expressions by an oath, because he found them very backward to believe what he professed. Who hath taken away my judgment Who, though he knows my integrity, yet does not plead my cause against my friends. All the while my breath is in me Which is the constant companion and certain sign of life; or my soul or life is in me; and Spirit of God Or rather, the breath of... read more

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