Job 31:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; ”

• Job 31:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  If his loins have not blessed me - This is a personification by which the part of the body that had been clothed by the benevolence of Job, is supposed to speak and render him thanks.

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• Job 31:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 31. The Oath of Clearing. Job's final protestation of his innocence, and appeal to God to judge him. This chapter, says Duhm, is the high-water mark of the OT ethic, higher than the Decalogue o...

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• Job 31:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  loins have not blessed. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia, App-6 :. the loins so covered.

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• Job 31:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; If his loins have not blessed me - This is a very delicate touch: the part that was cold and shivering is...

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• Job 31:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; Job affirms his freedom from unfairness toward his servants: from harshness and oppression toward...

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• Job 31:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job Protests the Innocence of his Past Life Job's virtues are those of a great Arab prince, such as are admired still: namely, blameless family life, consideration for the poor and weak, charity,...

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• Job 31:20 - 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 31:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Clean Life Job 31:1-40 Job had specially guarded against impurity, for its heritage is one of calamity and disaster. He is sure that even if he were weighed by God Himself there would be no...

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• Job 31:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This whole chapter is taken up with Job's solemn oath of innocence. It is ills official answer to the line of argument adopted by his three friends. In the process of his declaration he called on God...

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• Job 31:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (9) В¶ If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; (10) Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. (11) For this is an hein...

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• Job 31:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  If his loins have not blessed me ,.... Which were girded and covered with garments he gave him; which, as often as he put on and girded his loins with, put him in mind of his generous benefactor, an...

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• Job 31:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep; Ver. 20. If his loins have not blessed me ] As being warm clothed by me; not with a suit of words, as t...

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• Job 31:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If I have seen any perish When it was in my power to help them. If his loins have not blessed me That is, if my covering his loins hath not given him occasion to bless me, and to pray to God to b...

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• Job 31:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Though Job's misery was complete, he returns in this chapter to the defence of his whole life, which was comparatively more virtuous than that of any other man. God had said this to Satan long before...

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• Job 31:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Compassion to the Poor. B. C. 1520.       16 If I have withheld the poor from their de...

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• Job 31:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Blessed me, i.e. given him occasion to bless and praise me, and to pray to God to bless me for covering them; the loins being put synecdochically for the whole body: see the like expression Deute...

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• Job 31:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S SELF-VINDICATION.—HIS SOLILOQUY CONTINUED Concludes his speeches by a solemn, particular, and extended declaration of the purity and uprightness of his life. Especial reference to his pri...

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• Job 31:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 31:1 . A maid. The LXX, followed by the Chaldaic, read virgin; but our English version has the most ancient support. Job was pure and spotless in conversation with women. He abhorred seduction...

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• Job 31:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  I made a covenant with mine eyes. Guard the senses Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear. ( W. Gurnall. ) Methods of mo...

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• Job 31:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The conclusion of Job's long speech (ch. 26-31.) is now reached. He winds it up by a solemn vindication of himself from all the charges of wicked conduct which have been alleged or in...

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• Job 31:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Recounts his Blameless Conduct

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• Job 31:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 24:13 ; Job 29:11

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