Job 1:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then Job arose, and rent his mantle,j and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, ”

• Job 1:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Then Job arose - The phrase to arise, in the Scriptures is often used in the sense of beginning to do anything. It does not necessarily imply that the person had been previously sitting; see 2 S...

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• Job 1:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Then Job arose, and (a) rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, (a) Which came not from impatience, but declares that the children of God are not insensi...

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• Job 1:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  In the preceding section the narrative surged forward, depicting the unbridled rage of the Satan. Here on the contrary we have a beautiful picture of complete rest and resignation, and are taught how...

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• Job 1:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  shaved his head. Symbolic of mourning ( Leviticus 21:5 . Jeremiah 7:29 ; Jeremiah 16:6 ; Micah 1:16 ).

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• Job 1:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 451 TRIALS AND RESIGNATION OF JOB Job 1:20-21 . Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of...

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• Job 1:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, Rent his mantle - Tearing the garments, shaving or pulling off the hair of the head, throwing...

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• Job 1:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, Job arose - not necessarily from sitting. Inward excitement is implied, and the beginn...

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• Job 1:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prologue Job 1:2 , which form the Prologue to the book, describe ( a ) the prosperity and piety of Job; ( b ) a scene in heaven in which the Satan questions the motives of his piety; and ( c...

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• Job 1:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And worshipped. — Compare the conduct of David ( 2 Samuel 12:20 ) and of Hezekiah ( 2 Kings 19:1 ). Moments of intense sorrow or trial, like moments of intense joy, force us into the immediate pres...

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• Job 1:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  IV. THE SHADOW OF GOD'S HAND Job 1:13-22 COMING now to the sudden and terrible changes which are to prove the faithfulness of the servant of God, we must not fail to observe that in the develo...

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• Job 1:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Stripped of Every Possession Job 1:13-22 There are dark days in our lives, when messenger follows on the heel of messenger, and we sit down amid the ruins of our happiness. All that made life g...

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• Job 1:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In magnificence of argument and beauty of style this Book is one of the grandest in the divine Library. The story of Job is presented in dramatic form. It opens with a picture of Job. He is seen in...

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• Job 1:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (20) В¶ Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, (21) And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither:...

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• Job 1:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then Job arose ,.... Either from table, being at dinner, as some think, in his own house; it being the time that his children were feasting in their eldest brother's house; or from the business in w...

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• Job 1:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, Ver. 20. Then Job arose, and rent his mantle ] He stirred not at the three first doleful ti...

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• Job 1:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then Job arose From his seat whereon he had been sitting in a disconsolate posture; and rent his mantle In token of his deep sense of, and just sorrow for, the heavy hand of God upon him, and his...

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• Job 1:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB, HIS FAMILY AND HIS PROMINENCE (vv.1-5) Uz is considered to have been in the area between Syria and Babylon. There Job lived with his wife, seven sons and three daughters. He is first spoken...

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• Job 1:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Sorrow and Submission. B. C. 1520.       20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and s...

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• Job 1:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Then Job arose from his seat, whereon he was sitting in a disconsolate posture. Rent his mantle, to testify his deep sense of and just sorrow for the heavy hand of God upon him, and his humiliati...

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• Job 1:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  FIFTH PART OF INTRODUCTION—THE RESULT OF SATAN’S ATTEMPTS I. Job’s grief ( Job 1:20 ). “Then Job arose.” Probably found by the tidings in the usual posture of Orientals. Aroused from wonted calm...

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• Job 1:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Job 1:1 . There was a man in the land of Uz, Job was a man indeed; a true man, a man of the highest type, for he was a man of God. Job 1:1 . Whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and up...

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• Job 1:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 1:1 . The land of Uz. Moses is always correct in calling countries after the name of the first possessor. Uz was in the east beyond Jordan, and south of mount Hermon. It fell to the lot of the...

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• Job 1:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord The foe of foes I. The enthusiasm of his malignity. No sooner does he receive permission than he begins in terrible earnestness. He does not s...

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• Job 1:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" to Job extends to two chapters. In the first we are given an account, firstly, of his outward circumstances—his abode, wealth, family, etc; and of his ch...

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• Job 1:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job's Great Affliction

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• Job 1:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 5:6 ; 2 Chronicles 7:3 ; 2 Samuel 12:16-20 ; Deuteronomy 9:18 ; Ezra 9:3 ; Genesis 37:29 ; Genesis 37:34 ; Matthew 26:39

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• Job 1:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Shaved — Caused his hair to be shaved or cut off, which was then an usual ceremony in mourning. Worshipped — Instead of cursing God, which Satan said he would do, he adored him, and gave him the gl...

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