Job 27:2-4

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 27:2

Who hath taken away my judgment - Who has turned aside my cause, and has not permitted it to come to a hearing, where I might have justice done to me, but has abandoned me to the harsh and uncharitable judgment of my enemies? There appears to be a great want of reverence in these words of Job; he speaks with a degree of irritation, if not bitterness, which cannot be justified. No man should speak thus of his Maker. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 27:3

All the while my breath is in me - As Job appears to allude to the creation of Adam, whom God made out of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that he became a living soul, the whole of Job's assertion may be no more than a periphrasis for As long as I live and have my understanding. Indeed נשמתי nishmathi may be rendered my mind or understanding, and אלוה רוח ruach Eloah , the breath of God, the principle of animal life, the same that he... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 27:4

My lips shall not speak wickedness - As I have hitherto lived in all good conscience before God, as he knoweth, so will I continue to live. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:1-4

Moral honesty. Job now almost loses sight of his vexatious friends as he breaks out into a long discourse. His first thought is to assert his integrity, without flinching before the charges that have been so recklessly flung at him. He will not confess sins of which he is not guilty. It required some courage for him to take this stand, for he was sorely pressed to yield to insincerity. I. THE TEMPTATION TO INSINCERITY . This is many-sided, springing from various sources. 1 . ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:1-10

Job's first parable: 1. The transgressions of a godly man. I. A DARING ACCUSATION . 1 . Against whom directed? Against Eloah, the All-sufficient One; Shaddai, the All-powerful One, the Self-existent, Living One, whose universal dominion, resistless might, and ineffable majesty Bildad ( Job 25:1-3 ) and Job himself ( Job 26:5-14 ) had eloquently pictured. With exalted conceptions of the transcendent greatness of the invisible Supreme, whose continual presence also he vividly... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:1-23

This chapter divides itself into three distinct portions. In the first, which extends to the end of Job 27:6 , Job is engaged in maintaining, with the utmost possible solemnity (verse 2), both his actual integrity (verse 6) and his determination to hold fast his integrity as long as he lives (verses 4-6). In the second (verses 7-10) he implicates a curse upon his enemies. In the third (verses 11-23) he returns to the consideration of God's treatment of the wicked, and retracts the view... read more

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