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The Biblical Illustrator - Job 13:25

Job 13:25Wilt Thou break a leaf driven to and fro?A pitiful pleaPoor Job! Who could have been brought lower? In his deep distress he turns to God, and finding no other plea so near at hand he makes a plea of his own distress. He compares himself to the weakest thing he could think of. He draws an argument out of his weakness. It is a common figure he uses, that of a leaf driven to and fro. To this Job likens himself--a helpless, hopeless, worthless, weak, despised, perishing thing. And he... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 13:26

Job 13:26Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.The iniquities of youth visitedThe errors and sins of youth do often entail a very fearful responsibility and very heavy misery upon after life. Youth, which is the season of the first, and sometimes of the most violent temptation, is also unhappily the season of the greatest weakness. Of both temptation and weakness they are usually quite ignorant. The entrance of the path of active life is... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 13:27

Job 13:27Thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. FootprintsTrue religion there cannot be without an abiding sense of our responsibilities. We must discover and realise our moral obligations, or we can never meet and discharge them. What is meant by moral responsibility? It implies that God will call man to account for his whole character and conduct, and will render to every man accordingly. To every man time is a state of probation, and eternity a state of retribution. The doctrine of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 13:28

Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten. Rotten establishments“A revival of commercial confidence cannot be expected so long as rotten trading establishments continue to deceive the world.” The cause of bad trade is that we have neglected personal religion, and have been almost eaten up by a selfish cancer. There would never be either a failure or a panic if all commercial men made the Lord Jesus their secret but active partner in every business... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 13:1

Job 13:1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it. Ver. 1. Lo, mine eye hath seen all this ] sc. All those effects of God’s providence, declared in the former chapter. I have not discoursed about God’s powerful and wise dispensation by rote, or without book; I have not blurted out what I believe not, or am not able to prove, as you have accused me; I have spoken both that which I have seen (and what is more sure than sight?) and that which I have heard and... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 13:2

Job 13:2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you. Ver. 2. What ye know, the same do I know also ] Heb. According to your knowledge I also know. This may seem an unseemly boast; which, if his friends had taxed him for, he might have answered, as Paul did in a like case, Ye have compelled me, 2 Corinthians 11:5 . The rule is, "Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves," Philippians 2:3 . ... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 13:3

Job 13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. Ver. 3. Surely I would speak to the Almighty ] It were far better for me to speak to God than to you, and much fairer dealing from him I might expect. "A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he," Deuteronomy 32:4 ; but ye are forgers of lies, and ye load me with false accusations, depraving my speeches, as thou, Zophar, especially hast done, wishing withal that God himself would speak with me face... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 13:4

Job 13:4 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value. Ver. 4. But ye are forgers of lies ] i.e. Ye create false maxims to judge me by; ye gather up without any order, and to no purpose, whatsoever cometh in your way to strengthen and maintain your false accusation against me. You are not only cencinnatores, forgers, but compactors, botchers, such as, by sewing one lie to another, do patch up a false and frivolous discourse, Mendacia mendaciis assuitis. So David, Psalms... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 13:5

Job 13:5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. Ver. 5. O that you would altogether hold your peace ] Heb. In being silent, would be silent: q.d. I thought much of your seven days’ silence, Job 2:13 , and now I am no less troubled at your speeches. Oh that you had either continued your silence, or else would frame to say something better than silence: for hitherto ye have spoken much, but said little. I could heartily wish, therefore, that you would now... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 13:6

Job 13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. Ver. 6. Hear now my reasoning, &c. ] Or, hear, I pray you. Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; suffer the word of exhortation and of reprehension; sharp though it be, and to the flesh irksome, yet suffer it, since it is for your good. Quintilian testifieth of Vespasian, that he was patientissimus veri, one that could well endure to be told the truth; but there are few Vespasians. Many people are like the... read more

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