Job 29:5-10 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 29:1-6

Losers may have leave to speak, and there is nothing they speak of more feelingly than of the comforts they are stripped of. Their former prosperity is one of the most pleasing subjects of their thoughts and talk. It was so to Job, who begins here with a wish (Job 29:2): O that I were as in months past! so he brings in this account of his prosperity. His wish is, 1. ?O that I were in as good a state as I was in then, that I had as much wealth, honour, and pleasure, as I had then!? This he... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 29:7-17

We have here Job in a post of honour and power. Though he had comfort enough in his own house, yet he did not confine himself to that. We are not born for ourselves, but for the public. When any business was to be done in the gate, the place of judgment, Job went out to it through the city (Job 29:7), not in an affectation of pomp, but in an affection to justice. Observe, Judgment was administered in the gate, in the street, in the places of concourse, to which every man might have a free... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 29:5

When the Almighty was yet with me ,.... Not merely by his powerful and providential presence, as he is with all men; but in a special manner by his gracious presence, which is a wonderful and distinguishing favour; but sometimes the people of God are without it, at least they think so, and which was now Job's case, see Job 23:2 ; and therefore he desires he would return to him, and show him his face and favour: when my children were about me ; as olive plants about his table, in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 29:6

When I washed my steps with butter ,.... Not the steps of his house or palace; for to have done this, or his servants by his orders, as it would have been a very great impropriety, so a piece of great prodigality, which Job could never have been guilty of; but either his footsteps, the prints of his feet; and the sense be, that his cattle produced such a vast quantity of milk, that when his servants brought it from the fields to the dairy, their milk pails ran over in such abundance, that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 29:7

When I went out to the, gate through the city ,.... Job having described his former state of happiness by the personal favours he enjoyed, and by the prosperity of his family, and his abundance of plenty at home, proceeds to give an account of the honour and respect he had from men of every age and rank abroad: though he had an affluence of the things of this world, he did not indulge himself at home in ease and sloth; but went abroad to take care of the public welfare, maintain public... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 29:8

The young men saw me, and hid themselves ,.... Through a veneration of him; which was much, since young men, through a vain conceit and opinion of themselves, are apt to treat their superiors in age with slight, neglect, and contempt; or through fear, lest he should spy them, and call them to him, and examine them closely concerning their conduct and behaviour, and reprove them for their youthful follies he might have knowledge of: and the aged arose and stood up ; as he passed by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 29:9

The princes refrained talking ,.... Who were in court before Job came in, and were either talking with one another about indifferent matters, or were giving their opinion in a case before them; but no sooner did Job make his appearance, but they left off talking, and would not proceed any further; they laid a restraint upon their words, and curbed themselves from speaking any more till they had heard his opinion: and laid their hand on their mouth ; as a token of silence, Judges 18:19... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 29:10

The nobles held their peace ,.... These may be in some respects inferior to the others; not princes of the blood, or sons of kings, who were properly princes, and yet great personages, of a noble extraction, and of considerable families: some think the leaders and generals of armies are meant, commanders and captains, and such like military officers, those sons of Mars, who are generally bold and daring, boisterous and blustering, and full of talk; and yet even these held their peace in the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 29:6

Washed my steps with butter - See the note on Job 20:17 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 29:7

When I went out to the gate - Courts of justice were held at the gates or entrances of the cities of the East; and Job, being an emir, was supreme magistrate: and here he speaks of his going to the gate to administer justice. I prepared my seat in the street - I administered judgment openly, in the most public manner, and none could say that I, in any case, perverted justice. Mr. Good translates: - "As I went forth the city rejoiced at me, as I took my seat abroad." read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 29:1-6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 29:7-17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 29:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 29:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 29:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 29:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 29:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 29:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 29:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 29:7

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