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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 31:28

This also, no less than the other forementioned sins, adultery, oppression, &c. By the judge, i.e. by the civil magistrate; who being advanced and protected by God, is obliged to maintain and vindicate his honour, and consequently to punish idolatry. And this did not cease to be his duty, although the magistrates of the world in Job’s time were so far from this, that they themselves also were idolaters. Yet considering that both Job and his friends, who lived in his time and neighbourhood,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 31:1-40

JOB’S SELF-VINDICATION.—HIS SOLILOQUY CONTINUEDConcludes his speeches by a solemn, particular, and extended declaration of the purity and uprightness of his life. Especial reference to his private, as before to his public, conduct. Intended to silence his accusers and justify his complaints. Affords a picture of an outwardly and blameless character. A specimen, presented in beautiful language, of a pure morality accompanied with, and based upon, an ardent piety and genuine religion. Job... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Job 31:28

DISCOURSE: 483SPIRITUAL IDOLATRYJob 31:24-25; Job 31:28. If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; if I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; …. This also were an iniquity to be punished by the Judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.HATEFUL as boasting is, and justly condemned both by God and man, there are occasions when it is proper, and indeed necessary. For instance; when a character has been... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 31:1-40

Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Job, chapter 31.Job has pretty well talked down all of his friends. Bildad has had his last word and Job is still responding, and has been responding, actually, just generally now to his friends. This last discourse of Job is his longest discourse, and he goes on and on with it. And we have been studying the final response of Job to his friends. His next responses will be to God. But Job is talking about his own righteousness, his own goodness, that... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 31:1-40

Job 31:1 . A maid. The LXX, followed by the Chaldaic, read virgin; but our English version has the most ancient support. Job was pure and spotless in conversation with women. He abhorred seduction, and all its associate crimes. Genesis 34:0. Job 31:28 . I should have denied the God that is above. Job here describes the manner in which the ancient Sabian idolaters worshipped the sun, moon, and stars, by kissing the hand; and his abhorrence of it shows that he was himself educated in the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 31:1-32

Job 31:1-32I made a covenant with mine eyes. Guard the sensesSet a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear. (W. Gurnall.)Methods of moral lifeLet us look at the kind of life Job says he lived, and in doing so let it be remarked that all the critics concur in saying that this chapter contains more jewels of illustration, of figure or metaphor, than probably any other chapter in the whole of the eloquent book. Job is therefore at his... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 31:24-28

Job 31:24-28If I have made gold my hope.On the love of moneyHow universal is it among those who are in pursuit of wealth to make gold their hope; and, among those who are in possession of wealth, to make fine gold their confidence! Yet we are here told that this is virtually as complete a renunciation of God as to practise some of the worst charms of idolatry. We recoil from an idolater as from one who labours under a great moral derangement, in suffering his regards to be carried away from the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:28

Job 31:28 This also [were] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judge: for I should have denied the God [that is] above. Ver. 28. This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge ] No less than adultery, but rather more. This also is iniquitas iudiciaria, a God provoking, land desolating sin, a wickedness with a witness, a capital crime. See Job 31:11 , and take notice how these foul sins swell in Job’s eyes as so many toads; and how full in the mouth he is in speaking of them. For I... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 31:28

an: Job 31:11, Job 9:15, Job 23:7, Genesis 18:25, Deuteronomy 17:2-Judges :, Deuteronomy 17:9, Judges 11:27, Psalms 50:6, Hebrews 12:23 for: Joshua 24:23, Joshua 24:27, Proverbs 30:9, Titus 1:16, 2 Peter 2:1, 1 John 2:23, Jude 1:4 Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:32 - lifted read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 31:28

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.The judge — The civil magistrate; who being advanced and protected by God, is obliged to maintain and vindicate his honour, and consequently to punish idolatry.Denied God — Not directly but by consequence, because this was to rob God of his prerogative, by giving to the creature, that worship which is peculiar to God. read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 31:28

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 31:1-40

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Job 31:28

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 31:1-40

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 31:1-40

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 31:1-32

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 31:24-28

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 31:28

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 31:28

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