Job 13:23-28 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 13:23-28

Here, I. Job enquires after his sins, and begs to have them discovered to him. He looks up to God, and asks him what was the number of them (How many are my iniquities?) and what were the particulars of them: Make me to know my transgressions, Job 13:23. His friends were ready enough to tell him how numerous and how heinous they were, Job 22:5. ?But, Lord,? says he, ?let me know them from thee; for thy judgment is according to truth, theirs is not.? This may be taken either, 1. As a passionate... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 13:23

How many are mine iniquities and sins? Whether of ignorance or presumption, through mistake or wilfulness, voluntary or involuntary, sins of omission or commission, secret or open, or of heart, lip, or life; for by this heap of words he uses in this and the next clause he means all sorts of sins, be they what they would; he desires to know what they were, both with respect to quality and quantity, how great F9 כמה "vox pertinet ad mulitudinem et magnitudinem", Pineda. they were,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 13:24

Wherefore hidest thou thy face ,.... Not from his cry, because of his sore and grievous afflictions, as Bar Tzemach; nor from helping and saving him from his troubles, as Sephorno; nor from looking on his right ways, as Jarchi; but from his person, withdrawing the manifestation of his face and favour; withholding the discoveries of his love; and denying him the light of his countenance, and sensible communion with him, and enjoyment of him, he had been indulged with; Job formerly had seen... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 13:25

Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro ?.... A leaf that falls from a tree in autumn, and withers and is rolled up, and driven about by the wind, which it cannot resist, to which Job here compares himself; but it is not to be understood of him with respect to his spiritual estate; for being a good man, and one that trusted in the Lord, and made him his hope, he was, as every good man is, like to a tree planted by rivers of water, whose leaf withers not, but is always green, and does not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 13:26

For thou writest bitter things against me ,.... Meaning not sins and rebellions, taken notice of by him, when his good deeds were omitted, as Jarchi; sin is indeed an evil and a bitter thing in its own nature, being exceeding sinful and abominable, and its effects and consequences; being what provokes God to anger most bitterly, and makes bitter work for repentance; as it did in Peter, who, when made sensible of it, wept bitterly, Matthew 26:75 ; sooner or later, sin, though it is a sweet... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 13:27

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks ,.... Which is one kind of punishment of offenders, and a preservation of them from making their escape; and is a security and reservation of them for further punishment sometimes; and so Job looked upon his afflictions as a punishment for he knew not what, and with which he was so surrounded and enclosed, that there was no getting out of them any more than a man can whose feet are set fast in the stocks; and that he was here kept for greater... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 13:28

And he as a rotten thing consumeth ,.... This by some Jewish writers F26 R. Levi, Ben Gersom, & Bar Tzemach. is referred to and connected with the driven leaf and dry stubble Job compares himself to, Job 13:25 ; and so the sense is, that his body, which, for its frailty and weakness, is compared to such things, is like any rotten thing, a rotten tree, as Ben Melech; or any thing else that is rotten, that is consuming and wasting away, as Job's body was, being clothed with worms... 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

Adam Clarke

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 13:23-28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 13:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 13:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 13:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 13:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 13:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 13:28

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

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

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

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