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Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 17:9

hold on: Psalms 84:7, Psalms 84:11, Proverbs 4:18, Proverbs 14:16, Isaiah 35:8-2 Samuel :, 1 Peter 1:5, 1 John 2:19 clean: Genesis 20:5, Psalms 24:4, Psalms 26:6, Psalms 73:13, Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 1:16, Mark 7:2 be stronger and stronger: Heb. add strength, Isaiah 40:29-Obadiah :, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:10 Reciprocal: Genesis 32:10 - two bands 2 Samuel 3:1 - David waxed 2 Samuel 5:10 - General 2 Samuel 22:21 - cleanness 1 Chronicles 11:9 - waxed greater and greater 1... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 17:10

do ye return: Job 6:29, Malachi 3:18 for I: Job 17:4, Job 15:9, Job 32:9, Job 42:7, 1 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Corinthians 6:5 Reciprocal: Job 15:27 - he covereth Job 18:3 - Wherefore Job 26:3 - counselled read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 17:1

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.The graves — He speaks of the sepulchres of his fathers, to which he must be gathered. The graves where they are laid, are ready for me also. Whatever is unready, the grave is ready for us: it is a bed soon made. And if the grave be ready for us, it concerns us, to be ready for the grave. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 17:2

Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?Are not — Do not my friends, instead of comforting, mock me? Thus he returns to what he had said, chap16:20, and intimates the justice of his following appeal. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 17:3

Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?Surety — These words contain, an humble desire to God that he would be his surety, or appoint him a surety who should maintain his righteous cause against his opposers.Strike hands — Be surety to me; whereof that was the usual gesture. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 17:4

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.Hid — Thou hast blinded the minds of my friends: therefore I desire a more wise and able judge.Therefore — Thou wilt not give them the victory over me in this contest, but wilt make them ashamed of their confidence. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 17:7

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.As a shadow — I am grown so poor and thin, that I am not to be called a man, but the shadow of a man. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 17:8

Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.Astonied — At the depth and mysteriousness of God's judgments, which fall on innocent men, while the worst of men prosper.Yet — Notwithstanding all these sufferings of good men, and the astonishment which they cause, he shall the more zealously oppose those hypocrites, who make these strange providences of God an objection to religion. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 17:10

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.Come — And renew the debate, as I see you are resolved to do. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 17:1

1. Now follow short ejaculatory clauses in which “Job chants his own requiem,” (Delitzsch,) reminding the reader of the requiem chanted by Mozart shortly before his death. My breath is corrupt Literally, My life ( rouahh) is destroyed. Some still read as in the text. The graves The Arabians, according to Schultens, frequently use “graves” for the grave. Around the sides of the tomb of the ancient Hebrew there were cells for the reception of sarcophagi containing the bodies of the... read more

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