Job 31:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; ”

Job 31:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If I have made gold my hope - That is, if I have put my trust in gold rather than in God; if I have fixed my affections with idolatrous attachment on riches rather than on my Maker. Job here intr...
Job 31:24 - 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 31:24 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 483 SPIRITUAL IDOLATRY Job 31:24-25 ; Job 31:28 . If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; if I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and b...
Job 31:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; Gold my hope - For the meaning of זהב zahab, polished gold, and כתם kethem, stamped gold, see on Job 28:15-17 (...
Job 31:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; Job asserts his freedom from trust in money ( 1 Timothy 6:17 ). Here he turns to his duty toward God, as bef...
Job 31:24 - 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 31:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

If I have made gold my hope. — He here refers to the admonition of Eliphaz ( Job 22:23-24 ), and declares that such had not been his practice.
Job 31:24 - 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 31:24 - 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 31:24 - 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 31:24 - 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 31:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If I have made gold my hope ,.... Job here purges himself from idolatry in a figurative sense, as he afterwards does from it, taken in a literal sense; for covetousness is idolatry, and a covetous m...
Job 31:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence; Ver. 24. If I have made gold my hope ] The Seventy read, Si posui aurum in coniugmm meum; signifying the co...
Job 31:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

If I have made gold my hope That is, the matter of my hope and trust, expecting safety and happiness from it, and placing my chief joy in the increase of my riches.
Job 31:24 - 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 31:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Abhorrence of Idolatry. B. C. 1520. 24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said...
Job 31:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

My hope, i.e. the matter of my hope and trust, placing my chief joy and satisfaction in worldly wealth, expecting safety and happiness from it. Compare Psalms 62:10 .
Job 31:24 - 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 31:24 - 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 31:24 - 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 31:24 - 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 31:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Recounts his Blameless Conduct
Job 31:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 6:10 ; 1 Timothy 6:17 ; Colossians 3:5 ; Deuteronomy 8:12-14 ; Genesis 31:1 ; Luke 12:15 ; Mark 10:24 ; Proverbs 10:15 ; Proverbs 11:28 ; Proverbs 30:9 ; Psalms 49:17 ; Psalms 4...

Job 31:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 31:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:24 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Job 31:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 31:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 31:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 31:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 31:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 31:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 31:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 31:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 31:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 31:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 31:24 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 31:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 31:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 31:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 31:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 31:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 31:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 31:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge