Verse 2
Section first JOB’S RENEWED ASSEVERATION OF HIS INNOCENCE IS CONFIRMED UNDER THE SANCTIONS OF AN OATH, Job 27:2-10. Hengstenberg and Hitzig divide the section into two strophes.
a. The oath of his innocence he takes with the full consciousness of its gravity, and with a determination to maintain it against all gainsayers, Job 27:2-6.
2. As God liveth Literally, living is God, that is, “by the living God,” an Arabic and Hebrew form of oath. Raschi cites from Rabbi Joshua, that Job must have served God from love, because no one swears by the life of a king unless he loves the king. Compare Psalms 63:11, and Isaiah 48:1.
My judgment, etc. My right. God has not only rejected his cause, but embittered his soul. This cry of wrong demonstrates that Job is still far from fitted to undo the twisted knot of his sufferings and rise erect in true manhood, renewed through sorrow; while it most admirably paves the way for Elihu.
Be the first to react on this!
