Job 31:13-40 RVR1960

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 31:19

Job 31:19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing. A good man’s righteousnessThese words do in general set forth the practice of a good man in the acts of mercy and righteousness, which do, above all others, declare him a follower of our blessed Lord. But chiefly they do imply something concerning the nature, manner, and object of those acts. In vulgar practice indeed men care not much for any acquaintance with the needy, and are all for doing kindnesses to them whose fortunes do not... 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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 31:33

Job 31:33If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom.Hiding and confessing sinTo cover and hide sin is sin: it is the adding of sin to sin. Sin is the disease of the soul, and there is no such way to increase and make a disease desperate as to conceal it. Silence feeds and cherishes the diseases of the body; and so it doth the diseases of our souls. Sin increaseth two ways, by concealment or hiding.1. In the guilt of it. The obligation to punishment takes... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 31:40

Job 31:40The words of Job are ended.Job’s final positionRunning like a golden thread through all this vehement and passionate language, we have seen a vein of thought which has given this half-rebellious questioner a claim upon our sympathy, and which even had the book ended here, would have prevented thoughtful men from joining his opponents, and from abandoning the solitary and tortured sufferer to the reproaches of his friends, and to the condemnation of the future readers of this great... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:13

Job 31:13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; Ver. 13. If I did despise the cause of my many, errant, &c. ] Servants of old (among the heathen especially) were mere slaves to their masters according to the flesh, who had power to use them at their pleasure, as they did their cattle. A servant (saith Aristotle) is the master’s instrument, and wholly his ολων εκεινου . He might do what he would to them, saith Seneca, even to the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:14

Job 31:14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Ver. 14. What then shall I do when God riseth up, &c. ] Job considered that he had a Master in heaven, Colossians 4:1 ; that there is one higher than the highest, Ecclesiastes 5:8 , with whom there is no respect of persons, but whereever any deal proudly, God is above them, Exodus 18:11 . These and the like humbling considerations, and not any placability or natural courteousness, made him... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:15

Job 31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? Ver. 15. Did not he that made me in the womb, make him? ] In which regard have not we all one Father, and hath not one God created us? Malachi 2:10 . Is it not he who formeth and shapeth us, and all by the book, Psalms 139:16 . We are all of all sorts in this respect (whether kings or captives, lords or lowlies), made of the same mould, hewn out of the same rock, digged out of the same pit, cut out... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:16

Job 31:16 If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; Ver. 16. If I have withheld the poor from their desire ] The poor man speaketh supplications, he comes to the rich with his God help me, as Lazarus did, Luke 16:20-21 , his very name speaks as much, but the rich answereth him roughly, Pro 18:23 Either the answer cutteth off half the petition, as the echo doth the voice; or else he is commanded ad quercum dicere, to tell his tale to the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:17

Job 31:17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; Ver. 17. Or have eaten my morsel myself alone ] As that churl Nabal did, and therefore merited the title of Pamphagus. Many rich wretches are like little children, who, though they have their mouths full of food and both their hands full, yet will part with none to another, but rather mar it. The richer they are the harder, as Dives; whom, to upbraid, Lazarus was laid in the bosom of liberal Abraham, of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:18

Job 31:18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;) Ver. 18. For from my youth he was brought up with me, &c. ] i.e. Ever since I could do anything it hath been my delight to be doing good to the poor orphans, whom I have tenderly bred, as a father useth to breed his children. Non est vulgare Dei donum, saith Mercer, This is no ordinary mercy for men to be of a merciful disposition and melting hearted toward the poor... read more

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 31:19

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 31:24-28

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 31:33

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 31:40

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:13

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:14

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:15

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:16

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:17

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 31:18

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