Job 1:1-19,Job 2:1-8

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 1:9

Job 1:9Doth Job fear God for nought? The devil’s sneerThere is very much distrust abroad, and unfortunately too much warrant for distrust, touching the sincerity of people in general. The devil has his fling at even one of the best of men here in this opening chapter of the drama of Job. As is readily seen, the implication in this question as to whether Job fears God for nought is that every mart has his price. It is assumed that the basis of all action is commercial. The law of the counting... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 1:10

Job 1:10Hast not Thou made an hedge about him?Hedges(To children):--Satan held that Job was such a good man just because God took such special care of him. Now, Satan very often says that of good men; and some of us have been guilty of repeating it. We are so apt to think that God has made It hedge to protect other lives far more than our own, and that the best people are as good as they are because of some special protection which God has granted them. The word “hedge” denotes that which... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 1:11

Job 1:11But put forth Thine hand now. Conscious and unconscious hypocrisyThere are two kinds of hypocrisy in the world--conscious hypocrisy and unconscious. Of conscious hypocrisy it is not our intention to speak; we would fain believe that deliberate hypocrisy is as rare as deliberate atheism. We do not think that it was with conscious hypocrisy that Satan intended to charge God’s servant Job, or with knowingly serving the Lord for what he could gain by it. Had he been guilty of this his... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 1:12-22

Job 1:12-22So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord The foe of foesI.The enthusiasm of his malignity. No sooner does he receive permission than he begins in terrible earnestness. He does not seem to have lost a moment. Like a hungry vulture in a carrioned atmosphere, he pounces down upon his victim. Now he strikes at the cattle that were ploughing the field, and the she asses that were beside them. Then he slays the servants, then with a shaft of fire from heaven he burns up the “sheep... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 1:16

Job 1:16While he was yet speaking there came also another.The calamities of JobI. Many agents are watching for opportunities to injure us, but are restrained by the power of God. These may be divided into the visible and invisible. There are the invisible, those fallen spirits, of whose apostasy and active malignity so much is said in Scripture. Here you will see how the devil first tried to take away Job’s character for sincerity and virtue, then to insinuate that he was no better than a... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 1:1

Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. Ver. 1. There was a man ] A notable man, a man by an excellency, and with an accent (as it were), a man of high degree ( Animo virili praeditus ), as the word Ish signifieth, Psalms 49:2 ; Psalms 62:9 (where it is opposed to Adam, utpote quem ex meliore luto finxit Titan ), a manly man, every way excellent and eximious: Magnus et admirabilis... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 1:2

Job 1:2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. Ver. 2. And there were born unto him seven sons ] This was a main part of his prosperity, to have such a numerous issue to build up his house and to heir his estate, though it proved to be luctuosa fecunditas, mournful fertility, as Jerome said Laeta’s was, who lived to see her children buried before her. Job’s children are spoken of before his wealth, because better valued; and yet after this fearing God and eschewing evil,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 1:3

Job 1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east. Ver. 3. His substance also ] Heb. His possession or acquisition, that stock and store which he had gotten, and was rightly possessed of, consisting very much in cattle, great and small ( Possessio maxime pecuaria. Nomen dictum est ab acquirendo, Merc.), his... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 1:4

Job 1:4 And his sons went and feasted [in their] houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. Ver. 4. And his sons went and feasted in their houses ] They were of ripe years; and although unmarried, yet had they their several houses to dwell in. This declareth not only the wealthiness of the family, but also the good order and government thereof, as Beza observeth. Their orderly intercourse of friendly feasting one another shows their... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 1:5

Job 1:5 And it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. Ver. 5. And it was so, that when the days of their feasting were gone about ] Such was his holy care of them, and jealousy over them, that he would defer the work no longer; as... read more

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 1:9

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 1:10

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 1:11

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 1:12-22

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 1:16

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 1:1

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 1:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 1:3

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 1:4

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 1:5

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