Job 31:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. ”

Job 31:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For destruction from God was a terror to me - The destruction which God would bring upon one who was guilty of the crime here specified, awed and restrained me. He was deterred from this crime of...
Job 31:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For destruction [from] God [was] a (q) terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. (q) I did not refrain from sin for fear of men, but because I feared God.
Job 31:23 - 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...
Job 31:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

highness . majesty. endure . escape.
Job 31:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. Destruction from God was a terror - I have ever been preserved from outward sin, through the fear of...
Job 31:23 - 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...
Job 31:23 - 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,...
Job 31:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I could not endure. — Rather, I was unable to act thus.
Job 31:23 - 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...
Job 31:23 - 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...
Job 31:23 - 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...
Job 31:23 - 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...
Job 31:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For destruction [from] God [was] a terror to me ,.... Though he feared not men, they being at his beck and command, ready to do any thing for him he should order, yet he feared God; and the dread of...
Job 31:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For destruction [from] God [was] a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. Ver. 23. For destruction from God was a terror to me ] Such an eminent and exemplary calamity or...
Job 31:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For destruction , &c. I stood in awe of God, and his justice and wrath, and therefore made it my care and business to shun sin, and to please him. And by reason of his highness His excellence...
Job 31:23 - 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...
Job 31:23 - 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...
Job 31:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I was so far from denying or questioning God's providence, wherewith you seem to charge me, that I always reverenced it; and when by reason of my great wealth, and power, and interest I had little re...
Job 31:23 - 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...
Job 31:23 - 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...
Job 31:23 - 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...
Job 31:23 - 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...
Job 31:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Recounts his Blameless Conduct
Job 31:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 5:11 ; Genesis 39:9 ; Isaiah 13:6 ; Job 13:11 ; Job 20:23 ; Job 21:20 ; Job 40:9 ; Job 42:5 ; Job 42:6 ; Joel 1:15 ; Psalms 119:120 ; Psalms 76:7
Job 31:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For — I stood in awe of God and of his judgments. I could not — I knew myself unable either to oppose his power, or to bear his wrath. Even good men have need to restrain themselves from sin, with...

Job 31:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 31:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 31:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 31:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 31:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 31:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 31:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 31:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 31:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 31:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 31:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 31:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 31:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 31:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 31:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 31:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 31:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 31:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 31:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 31:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 31:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 31:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes