Job 31:1-35

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 31:5

Walked, i.e. conversed in the world, dealt with men. With vanity, i.e. with lying, or falsehood, or hypocrisy, as this word is oft used, as Psalms 4:2; Psalms 12:3; Psalms 36:3; Proverbs 30:8, and as the next words explain it. If my foot hath hasted to deceit; if when I have had any temptation or opportunity of enriching myself, by defrauding or wronging others, I have readily and greedily complied with it, as hypocrites (such as you account me) use to do, and have not rejected and abhorred it;... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 31:6

This is either, 1. An imprecation; or rather, 2. A submission to trial, as the following words show. The sense is, I am so far from being conscious to myself of any hypocrisy or secret wickedness, whereby I have brought these unusual judgments upon myself, as you traduce me, that I desire nothing more than to have my heart and life weighed in just balances, and searched out by the all-seeing God. That God may know, Heb. and let him know (i.e. let him acknowledge and show that he knoweth and... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 31:7

If I have wittingly, and willingly, and customarily (as you accuse me) swerved from the way of truth and justice which God hath prescribed to me; for otherwise no man here is so just, but he sometimes takes a wrong step, Ecclesiastes 7:20. If I have let my heart loose to covet and seek after forbidden things, which mine eyes have seen; which may design either, 1. The lust of uncleanness; but of that he had spoken Job 31:1, and reneweth the discourse Job 31:9. Or rather, 2. The lust of... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 31:8

Let strangers enjoy the fruit of my labours, according to God’s curse, Leviticus 26:16; Deuteronomy 28:30. My offspring; as this word is used, Job 5:25; Job 27:14. Or rather, my increase, or growths, or sprouts, i.e. all my plants, and fruits, and improvements. For, 1. So the word properly signifies. 2. So this latter branch of the verse explains the former, as is most frequent in this and some other books of Scripture. 3. He had not now any children to be rooted out. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 31:9

By a woman, to wit, by a strange woman, or rather by my neighbour’s wife, as the next words limit it; for of a maid he spoke before, Job 31:1, and this cannot be meant of his own wife. He saith, by a woman, i.e. either by gazing upon her beauty, so as to be enamoured with it, and to lust after her; or by her persuasions or allurements. Or, concerning a woman, i.e. concerning impure conversation with a forbidden woman. The phrase is very emphatical, taking from himself and others the vain... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 31:10

Let my wife grind unto another; either, 1. Let her be taken captive, and made a slave to grind in other men’s mills; which was a sore and vile servitude, Exodus 11:5; Judges 16:21; Isaiah 47:2; Matthew 24:41. Or rather, 2. Let her be defiled by another man, as the next words expound it, and as the Hebrews understand it, and as this very phrase is used by very ancient, both Greek and Latin, authors of which see my Latin Synopsis on this place. And this is to be cautiously understood, not as if... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 31:11

To wit, adultery, whether committed by choice and design, or by the solicitation of the woman, Job 31:9. Heb. an iniquity of the judges, i.e. which belongs to them to take cognizance of, and to punish, and that with death; and that not only by the law of Moses, Deuteronomy 22:22, but even by the law of nature, as appears from the known laws and customs of heathen nations in that case. See also Genesis 38:24. This is opposed to those secret and lesser sins, which are only known to and punished... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 31:12

For this sin would be as a secret but consuming fire, wasting my estate and reputation, and body and soul too, provoking God and enraging the husband, and bringing down some extraordinary vengeance upon me; and therefore the fear of God kept me from this and such-like wickedness. All mine increase, i.e. all my estate: compare Proverbs 6:27. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 31:13

If I did despise the cause of my man-servant; if I used my power over him to overthrow him or his just rights. And seeing it is known that I was so just and kind to them, over whom I had such unlimited power, it is not probable that I should be guilty of such cruelty to others, as you impute to me. When they contended with me; either for imposing heavier burdens than they could bear; or for not providing for them those supports which their nature and necessity required, or for any other... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 31:14

When God riseth up, to wit, to plead the cause of the oppressed against the oppressor, and to execute judgment, as this phrase is used, Psalms 68:1; Zechariah 2:13, and elsewhere. I used my servant like one who was also myself a servant, and had a Master in heaven, Colossians 4:1, to whom I was to give an account of my carriage to my servant and to all men. When he visiteth, i.e. when he shall call me to his tribunal, and severely examine all my actions, and particularly the cause between me... read more

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