Job 29:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: ”

• Job 29:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  When the ear heard me. - A personification for “they who heard me speak, blessed me.” That is, they commended or praised me. And when the eye saw me - All who saw me. It gave witness to me...

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• Job 29:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  When the (g) ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me: (g) All that heard me, praised me.

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• Job 29:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 29. Job's Former Happy Days. Job 29:1-6 . Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means intimacy ( cf. Psalms 25:14 ). Job 29:7-10 ....

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• Job 29:11 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 479 JOB’S CHARACTER Job 29:11-16 . When the ear heard me, then it blessed me: and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherle...

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• Job 29:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  When the ear heard me , then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me , it gave witness to me: When the ear heard me - This and the six following verses present us with a fine exhibition of a man ful...

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• Job 29:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Blessed - extrolled my virtues ( Proverbs 31:28 ). Omit me after heard; whoever heard of me in gener...

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• Job 29:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Past Greatness and Happiness Job mournfully recalls the days of God's favour, and the prosperity and honour he once enjoyed. In this chapter we have the picture of a great and worthy chiefta...

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• Job 29:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  When the ear heard me, then it blessed me. — This is a direct negative to the charges of Eliphaz in Job 22:6 , &c. He has felt them too deeply to pass them by in total silence.

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• Job 29:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...

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• Job 29:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Bitter Memory of the Happy Past Job 29:1-25 How many thousands, looking back on the beautiful dawn of life which has become overcast, have uttered the thought of the opening words of this c...

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• Job 29:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job now moved a step forward in his reply. He was still without a solution. That of his friends he utterly repudiated. In order to prepare the way for the utterance of a solemn oath of innocence, he...

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• Job 29:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (6) When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; (7) В¶ When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! (8) The young men saw me,...

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• Job 29:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me ,.... The ear of the common people assembled together to hear causes tried, and how they would go; when they heard Job give his opinion in court, or the d...

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• Job 29:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me: Ver. 11. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ] That is, it praised me, and praised God for me,...

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• Job 29:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  When the ear heard me, then it blessed me Prayed to God to bless me, and pronounced a blessing upon me, because of the integrity, justice, and wisdom which were observed in all my discourses and ac...

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• Job 29:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB'S PAST GREATNESS In this chapter Job dwells upon the honour and dignity that had been his in the past. While he was sincere in what he said, and no doubt spoke truthfully, yet there is far too...

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• Job 29:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!   8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.   9 The princes refr...

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• Job 29:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  It blessed me, i.e. pronounced me to be a man blessed of God with eminent gifts and graces; or heartily prayed for God's blessing upon me, because of that wisdom and integrity which they saw in all...

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• Job 29:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S RETROSPECT Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends, and shows that his complaints were sufficiently we...

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• Job 29:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 29:3 . When his candle shined upon my head; that is, when the light of his countenance shone upon me, in every form of patriarchal prosperity. This figure seems to be borrowed from the lights...

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• Job 29:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 29:1-18 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man and the infinite knowledge of God, Job turns to a...

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• Job 29:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Describes his Former Prosperity

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• Job 29:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 31:20 ; Luke 11:27 ; Luke 4:22 ; Proverbs 29:2

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• Job 29:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Witness — Gave testimony to my pious, and just, and blameless conversation.

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