Job 17:1-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 17:9

The righteous also shall hold on his way ,.... He that is righteous, not in appearance but really, not in a legal but in an evangelic sense; who is justified by the righteousness of Job's living Redeemer, who lives by faith on his righteousness, and in consequence of that in holiness of life and conversation; such an one being in Christ the way of righteousness and salvation, and walking in the paths of faith, holiness, and truth, and in all the tracks of religious worship, private and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 17:10

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now ,.... This is an address to his three friends, all and everyone of them, who he perceived were nettled with his reply, and were either departing, or preparing for a rejoinder; and being conscious of his innocence, and satisfied of the goodness of his cause, and having nothing to fear from them, boldly challenges them to go on with the dispute; for though they were three to one, he was a match for them all; or else he calls upon them to turn and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 17:11

My days are past ,.... Or "passed away", or "passed over" F23 עברו "transierunt", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; ; not that they passed over the time fixed and appointed by God, for there is no passing the bound settled by him, Job 14:5 ; but either the common term of man's life was passed with Job, or he speaks of things in his own apprehension; he imagined his death was so near, that he had not a day longer to live; his days, as he before says, were extinct, were at an end, he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 17:12

They change the night into day ,.... Meaning either his friends, by what they had said unto him, or the thoughts of his heart, which comes to the same sense; these being in the night season employed about what had been said to him in the day, insomuch that he could get no sleep, the night was as broad day unto him; or they put the day before the night, contrary to the order of nature, as Noldius F26 Ebr. Part. Concord. No. 1931. observes, whereas the night is before the day, Genesis... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 17:13

If I wait, the grave is mine house ,.... Not that Job put an "if" upon, or made a doubt of waiting upon God in private or public; or of waiting for him, his gracious appearances to him, answers of prayer, performance of promises, and deliverance out of trouble; and especially of waiting his appointed time till his change came, and hoping and expecting eternal life and happiness; all which he determined to do, and did, see Job 13:15 ; but he says this with respect to the advice of his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 17:14

I have said to corruption, thou art my father ,.... Not to the corruptible seed, of which he was begotten; nor to the corruption or purulent matter of his boils and ulcers, and the worms his flesh was now clothed with, Job 7:5 ; but to that corruption his body would turn to in the grave, lying long enough to see it, which Christ's body did not, Psalm 16:10 ; that is, "to the pit of corruption" F3 לשחת "foveam", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Drusius, &c.; , as it may... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 17:15

And where is now my hope ?.... Not the grace of hope, which was in his heart; and though it might sometimes be low in exercise, it could not be lost; it is an anchor, sure and steadfast, and is one of the graces that always abides, and never disappoints and makes ashamed; nor the object of hope, eternal glory and happiness in another world, that is laid up in heaven, and for which he was looking and waiting by faith; but his hope of outward happiness, and of being restored to his former... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 17:16

They shall go down to the bars of the pit ,.... He himself, and his friends, and the hopes they would have him entertain; these should all go down together to the grave, and there lie barred and locked up; these hopes, so as never to rise anymore, and the bodies of himself, and his friends, till loosed by him who has the keys of hell and death: or "the bars shall go down to the grave"; the members of his body, as Jarchi, which are the bars of it, as some in Bar Tzemach; the strength and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 17:1

My breath is corrupt - Rather, My spirit is oppressed, חבלה רוחי ruchi chubbalah : My days are extinct, and the sepulchral cells are ready for me - Parkhurst. There is probably a reference here to cemeteries, where were several niches, in Each of which a corpse was deposited. See on Job 17:16 ; (note). For חבלה chubbalah , corrupted or oppressed, some MSS. have חלה chalah , is made weak; and one has גבלה is worn down, consumed: this is agreeable to the Vulgate, Spiritus meus... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 17:2

Are there not mockers with me? - This has been variously translated. The Vulgate: "I have not sinned, and yet my eye dwells upon afflictions." Septuagint: "I conjure you, laboring under afflictions, what evil have I done? Yet strangers have robbed me of my substance." Mr. Good: "But are not revilers before me? Alas, mine eye penetrateth their rebukes." Calmet thinks the Hebrew might be translated thus: "If I have not been united in friendship with the wicked, why are my eyes in bitterness?"... read more

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