Job 31:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gottenc much; ”

• Job 31:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great - That is, if I have rejoiced as if I might now confide in it, or put my trust in it. He had not found his principal joy in his property, nor had he...

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• Job 31:25 - 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 31:25 - 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...

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• Job 31:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

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• Job 31:25 - 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...

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• Job 31:25 - 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 31:25 - 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 31:25 - 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 31:25 - 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 31:25 - 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 31:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  If I rejoiced because my wealth [was] great ,.... As it was, see Job 1:2 ; yet he did not set his heart upon it, please himself with it, indulge to a carnal joy on account of it, nor suffer it to e...

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• Job 31:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  If I rejoiced because my wealth [was] great, and because mine hand had gotten much; Ver. 25. If l rejoiced because my wealth was great ] Those that trust in it cannot but rejoice in the increase o...

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• Job 31:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great Esteeming myself happy in the possession of it, though without God's love and favour; because my hand had gotten much Ascribing my acquisition of it...

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• Job 31:25 - 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 31:25 - 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...

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• Job 31:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  If I rejoiced, to wit, carnally and excessively, esteeming myself happy therein without God's love and favour; for otherwise it is not only lawful, but a duty and gift of God, moderately and thankf...

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• Job 31:25 - 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 31:25 - 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 31:25 - 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 31:25 - 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 31:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Recounts his Blameless Conduct

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• Job 31:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 4:30 ; Deuteronomy 8:17 ; Deuteronomy 8:18 ; Esther 5:11 ; Ezekiel 28:5 ; Habakkuk 1:16 ; Hosea 12:8 ; Isaiah 10:13 ; Isaiah 10:14 ; Jeremiah 9:23 ; Luke 12:19 ; Luke 16:19 ; Luke...

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