job-17:1-10

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 17:7

By reason of sorrow; through excessive weeping and decay of spirits, which cause a dimness in the sight. All my members are as a shadow; my body is so consumed, and my colour so wan and ghastly, that I look more like a ghost, or a shadow, than like a man. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 17:8

Wise and good men, when they shall see and consider my calamities, will not be so forward to censure and condemn me as you are, but will rather stand and wonder at the depth and mysteriousness of God’s counsels and judgments, which fall so heavily upon innocent men, while the worst of men prosper. And the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite: but, or yet, (notwithstanding all these sufferings of good men and the astonishment which they cause,) innocent (or religious persons... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 17:9

Shall hold on his way, i.e. shall persist in that good way into which he hath entered, and not be turned from it by any afflictions which may befall himself or any other good men, nor by any contempt or reproach cast upon them by the ungodly by reason thereof. He that hath clean hands, i.e. whose life and the course of his actions is holy and righteous; which is a sign that his heart also is pure and perfect. Shall be stronger and stronger; shall not be shaken and discouraged by the grievous... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 17:10

Return, and come now, i.e. come now again, (as this phrase is oft used,) and renew the debate, as I see you are prepared and resolved to do, and I am ready to receive you. Or, return into yourselves, and consider my cause again; peradventure your second thoughts may be wiser. One wise man, to wit, in this matter. None of you speak like wise or good men, but like rash and heady persons; you censure me as a rotten hypocrite, and misjudge of God’s ways, and condemn the generation of God’s children... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 17:1-16

CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZI. Bemoans his dying condition (Job 17:1).“My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished, as a lamp or taper whose flame is expiring), the graves are ready for me” (or, the place of graves, or chambers of the tomb, are destined for me,—Heb., ‘are for me,’ or, ‘are mine’). Job takes a calm but gloomy view of his condition. Now views himself always as a dying man. Speaks the language of deep... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 17:9

Job 17:9 ; Job 42:5-6 I. It is not possible to set out the salient features of Job's strength without taking into account the immense energy he derived from his burning consciousness of unimpeachable integrity. Integrity is power. Sincerity is a high form of human energy. Righteousness as a passion of the heart and an element in character and life is a manifest and undeniable source of imperial force. The strongest of beings is the holiest, and we men reach the very spring-head of power as we... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Job 17:9

DISCOURSE: 468DARK DISPENSATIONS OVERRULED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SAINTSJob 17:9. The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.AMONGST all the doctrines of our holy religion, there is not one more difficult to be received than that which here offers itself to our notice: it may well be numbered amongst “the deep things of God.” The manner too in which it has been professed by men of enthusiastic minds, or antinomian habits, has... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Job 17:1

"Ready, Ay, Ready!" Winter of 1861-1862 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "Ready to perish." Isaiah 27:13 . "Ready to forgive." Psalms 86:5 . "The graves are ready for me." Job 17:1 . When attempting to prepare for this service, I found it impossible to fix my mind upon any one subject. This afternoon, I had to take rather a long journey to visit a friend who is sick unto death, and at his bedside I trust I have learned some lessons of encouragement, and have been animated by witnessing... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 17:1-16

Chapter 17My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? ( Job 17:1-3 )Who will be my friend?For you have hid your heart from understanding: therefore thou shalt not exalt them. He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. He hath made me also a byword of the people;... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 17:1-16

Job 17:1 . My breath is corrupt. Schultens reads, corruptus est spiritus meus: “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye weeps all night at the severity of their reproaches?” The French versions nearly coincide with these readings. Mercer, a celebrated German critic, has this gloss on Job 17:1. “The vital power is exhausted and consumed.” Job 17:7 . All my members are as a shadow. Job here, from the emaciated state... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 17:7

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 17:8

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 17:9

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 17:10

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 17:1-16

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 17:9

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Job 17:9

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Job 17:1

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 17:1-16

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 17:1-16

Grupo de Marcas