Job 13:28

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 13:28

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 13:28

And he, as a rotten thing - I am like a vessel made of skin; rotten, because of old age, or like a garment corroded by the moth. So the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic understood it. The word he may refer to himself. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:14-28

The appeal is now to God; but Job prefaces it by excusing his boldness (verses 14-19). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:17-28

Job to God: resumption of the third controversy: 1. The pleading of a saint with Heaven. I. PRELIMINARIES TO THE PLEADING . 1 . Public audience invited. Job requests his discomfited friends to be silent spectators of the ensuing trial, and to attentively consider the defence he was about to offer (verse 17). Intended chiefly for the ear of God, it should yet contain nothing unfit for publication in the hearing of men. Conscious of sincerity, Job had nothing to conceal.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:23-28

Self-defence before God: 1. The weak against the Strong. I. THE CRY OF INJURED INNOCENCE . ( Job 13:23 .) He asks that he may have his sins enumerated and brought home to him, and that he may not thus ever be punished without the knowledge of the nature of his guilt. II. SENSE OF THE SILENCE AND WITHDRAWAL OF GOD . ( Job 13:24 ) God does not answer his challenge, and still his suffering continues, as if he were a foe to whom the Almighty deigns not to utter... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:28

And he . The change of person is very strange, but not unknown to the Hebrew idiom. It is impossible that any one but Job himself can be meant. As a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten . An allusion to the character of the disease from which he is suffering. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 13:28

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth - Noyes renders this, “And I, like an abandoned thing, shall waste away.” Dr. Good translates it, “Well may he dissolve as corrupttion.” Rosenmuller supposes that Job refers to himself by the word הוּא hû' - he, and that having spoken of himself in the previous verses, he now changes the mode of speech, and speaks in the third person. In illustration of this, he refers to a passage in Euripides, “Alcestes,” verse 690. The Vulgate renders it in the first... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 13:28

Job 13:28. And he, as a rotten thing That is, man, as some commentators suppose, thinking that Job speaks of himself in the third person, and that the sense is, this poor frail creature, this carcass, or body of mine; consumeth Or wasteth away, and is destroyed; as a garment eaten by moths Others, however, interpret the words thus: He, that is, God, consumeth me (understanding the verb יבלה , jiblee, actively) as rottenness consumeth that in which it is, or, as a rotten thing ... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 13:1-28

Job’s reply to Zophar (12:1-14:22)The reply from Job opens with a sarcastic comment on the supposed wisdom of the three friends. They have merely been repeating general truths that everybody knows (12:1-3). They do not have the troubles Job has, and they make no attempt to understand how Job feels. A good person suffers while wicked people live in peace and security (4-6).Job does not argue with the fact that all life is in God’s hands. What worries him is the interpretation of that fact... read more

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