Job 27

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 27

Job had sometimes complained of his friends that they were so eager in disputing that they would scarcely let him put in a word: ?Suffer me that I may speak;? and, ?O that you would hold your peace!? But now, it seems, they were out of breath, and left him room to say what he would. Either they were themselves convinced that Job was in the right or they despaired of convincing him that he was in the wrong; and therefore they threw away their weapons and gave up the cause. Job was too hard for... read more

Matthew Henry

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 27:7-10

Job having solemnly protested the satisfaction he had in his integrity, for the further clearing of himself, here expresses the dread he had of being found a hypocrite. I. He tells us how he startled at the thought of it, for he looked upon the condition of a hypocrite and a wicked man to be certainly the most miserable condition that any man could be in (Job 27:7): Let my enemy be as the wicked, a proverbial expression, like that (Dan. 4:19), The dream be to those that hate thee. Job was so... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 27:11-23

Job's friends had seen a great deal of the misery and destruction that attend wicked people, especially oppressors; and Job, while the heat of disputation lasted, had said as much, and with as much assurance, of their prosperity; but now that the heat of the battle was nearly over he was willing to own how far he agreed with them, and where the difference between his opinion and theirs lay. 1. He agreed with them that wicked people are miserable people, that God will surely reckon with cruel... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 27 Though Job's friends were become silent, and dropped the controversy with him, he still continued his discourse in this and the four following chapters; in which he asserts his integrity; illustrates and confirms his former sentiments; gives further proof of his knowledge of things, natural and divine; takes notice of his former state of prosperity, and of his present distresses and afflictions, which came upon him, notwithstanding his piety, humanity, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:1

Moreover Job continued his parable ,.... Having finished his discourse concerning the worlds and ways of God, and the display of his majesty, power, and glory, in them, he pauses awhile, waiting for Zophar, whose turn was next to rise up, and make a reply to him; but neither he, nor any of his friends, reassumed the debate, but kept a profound silence, and chose not to carry on the dispute any further with him; either concluding him to be an obstinate man, not open to conviction, and on whom... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:2

As God liveth ,.... Which is an oath, as Jarchi observes, and is a form of one frequently used, see 2 Samuel 2:27 ; and is used by God himself, who, because he can swear by no greater, swears by himself, and by his life, which ever continues, as in Ezekiel 18:3 ; and many other places; and so the Angel of the Lord, even the uncreated Angel, Daniel 12:7 ; and so should men, when they swear at all, it should be in this manner, see Jeremiah 4:2 ; though this ought not to be but in... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:4

My lips shall not speak wickedness ,.... This is the thing he swears to, this the matter of his oath, not only that he would not speak a wicked word not anything corrupt, unsavoury, unchaste, profane, and idle nor speak evil of his neighbours and friends or of any man; but that he would not speak wickedly of himself, as he must do, if he owned himself to be a wicked man and an hypocrite as his friends charged him, and they would have had him confessed; but he swears he would not utter such... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 27:5

God forbid that I should justify you ,.... Not but that he counted them righteous and good men God-ward; he did not take upon him to judge their state, and to justify or condemn them with respect to their everlasting condition; but he could not justify them in their censures of him, and say they did a right thing in charging him with wickedness and hypocrisy; nor could he justify them in all their sentiments and doctrines which they had delivered concerning the punishment of the wicked in... read more

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