Job 27:7-23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Bible Study & Commentary

Verses 7-23

Job 27:7-Isaiah : . Third Speech of Zophar.— He once more reiterates, in spite of all Job has said, that the wicked shall perish. He bursts out “ Let mine enemy be as God’ s enemy. I can wish him no worse doom. In Job 27:8 translate as mg.

Job 27:11 is quite in the vein of Zophar, who feels very much in the secrets of God ( Job 11:5-Joshua :). The plurals “ you” and “ ye” have probably been substituted for singulars when Zophar’ s speech had become attributed to Job. (Peake, however, gives Job 27:11 and Job 27:12 to Job, taking them as the opening and closing verses of a suppressed description of the immorality of God’ s government of the world.) From Job 27:13 onward we have the conventional description of the fate of the wicked.

In Job 27:15 read “ their widows” with LXX. In Job 27:18 read for “ moth” with Syr. “ spider” ( Job 8:14). For the frail “ booth” made for the use of the night-watchman in a vineyard, cf. Is. Is.

Job 27:19 is obscure.— In Job 27:19 a follow LXX and Syr. with mg.

Job 27:19 b perhaps means he wakes and is immediately destroyed.

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929) was an English biblical scholar, born at Leek, Staffordshire, and educated at St John's College, Oxford. He was the first holder of the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester, from its establishment as an independent institution in 1904. He was thus the first non-Anglican to become a professor of divinity in an English university.In 1890-92 he was a lecturer at Mansfield College, Oxford, and from 1890 to 1897 held a fellowship at Merton College.In 1892, however, he was invited to become tutor at the Primitive Methodist Theological Institute in Manchester, which was renamed Hartley College in 1906. He was largely responsible for broadening the curriculum which intending Primitive Methodist ministers were required to follow, and for raising the standards of the training.In 1895-1912 he served as lecturer in the Lancashire Independent College, from 1904 to 1912 also in the United Methodist College at Manchester. In 1904 he was appointed Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the (Victoria) University of Manchester. (This chair was in the Faculty of Theology established in that year; it was renamed "Rylands Professor, etc." in 1909.)Peake was also active as a layman in wider Methodist circles, and did a great deal to further the reunion of Methodism which took effect in 1932, three years after his death. In the wider ecumenical sphere Peake worked for the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, serving as president in 1928, and was a member of the World Conference on Faith and Order held in Lausanne in 1927. He published and lectured extensively, but is best remembered for his one-volume commentary on the Bible (1919), which, in its revised form, is still in use.The University of Aberdeen made him an honorary D. D. in 1907. He was a governor of the John Rylands Library.... Show more

First published in 1919, Peake's commentary of the bible was a one-volume commentary that gave special attention to Biblical archaeology and the then-recent discoveries of biblical manuscripts. Biblical quotations in this edition were from the Revised Version of the Bible.... Show more

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