Job 2:7-13 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 2:7-10

The devil, having got leave to tear and worry poor Job, presently fell to work with him, as a tormentor first and then as a tempter. His own children he tempts first, and draws them to sin, and afterwards torments, when thereby he has brought them to ruin; but this child of God he tormented with an affliction, and then tempted to make a bad use of his affliction. That which he aimed at was to make Job curse God; now here we are told what course he took both to move him to it and move it to... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 2:11-13

We have here an account of the kind visit which Job's three friends paid him in his affliction. The news of his extraordinary troubles spread into all parts, he being an eminent man both for greatness and goodness, and the circumstances of his troubles being very uncommon. Some, who were his enemies, triumphed in his calamities, Job 16:10; 19:18; 30:1 Perhaps they made ballads on him. But his friends concerned themselves for him, and endeavoured to comfort him. A friend loveth at all times,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 2:7

So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord ,.... With leave and license, with power and authority, as the Targum; having got his commission enlarged, on a fresh grant, to do more mischief to Job, he departed directly and immediately, being eager to put in execution what he had a permission to do; See Gill on Job 1:12 , and smote Job with sore boils, from the sole of his foot unto his crown : with hot and burning ulcers, such as were inflicted on the Egyptians in the plague of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 2:8

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal ,.... His mouth was shut, his lips were silent, not one murmuring and repining word came from him, amidst all this anguish and misery he must be in; much less anything that looked like cursing God and blaspheming him, as some are said to do, because of their pains and their sores, Revelation 16:11 ; but Job bore his with the utmost patience; he took a piece of a broken pot, which perhaps lay in the ashes among which he sat, and scraped... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 2:9

Then said his wife to him ,.... The Jews F7 T. Hieros. Sotah, fol. 20. 3. , who affect to know everything, say, that Job's wife was Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, as the Targum, but this is not very likely; however, we may observe that polygamy had not obtained in these early times; Job had but one wife, and very probably she is the same that after all this bore him ten children more; since we never read of her death, nor of his having any other wife, and might be a good woman for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 2:10

But he said unto her, thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh ,.... The wicked and profane women of that age; he does not say she was one of them, but spake like them; which intimates that she was a good woman, and had always been thought to be so; but now spake not like herself, and one of her profession, but like carnal persons: Sanctius thinks Job refers to the Idumean women, who, like other Heathens, when their god did not please them, or they could not obtain of them what... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 2:11

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him ,.... Of the loss of his substance, servants, and children, and of his own health; the news of which soon spread in the adjacent countries, Job being a person of great note, and his calamity so very extraordinary and uncommon: who these three friends were is after observed; they living at some distance from him, held a correspondence with him, and he with them, being good men; and now act the friendly part in paying... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 2:12

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off ,.... Either when at some distance from Job's house, and he being without in the open air, as some think; or as they entered his house, he being at the further part of the room, or in another further on, which they could see into: and knew him not ; at first sight; until they came nearer to him, his garments being rent, and his head shaved, and his body covered all over with boils; so that he was so deformed and disfigured that they could not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 2:13

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights ,.... Which was the usual time of mourning, Genesis 50:10 ; not that they were in this posture all this time, without sleeping, eating, or drinking, and other necessaries of life; but they came and sat with him every day and night for seven days and nights running, and sat the far greater part of them with him, conforming themselves to him and sympathizing with him: and none spake a word unto him ; concerning his... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 2:7

Sore boils - רע בשחין bischin ra , "with an evil inflammation." What this diabolical disorder was, interpreters are not agreed. Some think it was the leprosy, and this is the reason why he dwelt by himself, and had his habitation in an unclean place, without the city, (Septuagint, εξω της πωλεως ), or in the open air: and the reason why his friends beheld him afar off, Job 2:12 , was because they knew that the disorder was infectious. His scraping himself with a potsherd indicates... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 2:7-10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 2:11-13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 2:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 2:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 2:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 2:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 2:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 2:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 2:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 2:7

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