“ If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;i ”
If my land cry against me - This is a new specification of an offence, and an imprecation of an appropriate punishment if he had been guilty of it. Many have supposed that these closing verses ha...
If my land (d) cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; (d) As though I had withheld their wages that laboured in it.
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...
land cry... complain. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia. App-6.
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; If my land cry - The most careless reader may see that the introduction of this and the two following verses here, disturbs t...
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; Personification. The complaints of the unjustly ousted proprietors are transferred to the lands themselves ( Job 31:20...
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,...
Or that the furrows likewise thereof complain. — Rather, Or if the furrows thereof weep together — a strong impersonation to express the consequence of oppression and wrong-doing. It is to be obs...
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...
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...
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...
(33) В¶ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: (34) Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not o...
If my land cry against me ,.... Some think that this verse and Job 31:39 stand out of their place, and should rather follow after Job 31:34 ; and some place them after Job 31:25 ; and others a...
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; Ver. 38. If my land cry against me ] As unjustly gotten; where we have an elegant personification not unlike that of the p...
If my land cry against me To wit, to God, for revenge, (as the like phrase signifies, Genesis 4:10 ; Habakkuk 2:11 ,) because I have gotten it from the right owners by fraud or violence, as my f...
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's Protestation of His Integrity. B. C. 1520. 33 If I covered my transgressions as...
To wit, to God for revenge, as the like phrase is used, Genesis 4:10 Habakkuk 2:11 , because I have gotten it from the right owners by fraud or violence, as my friends charge me, and as is impli...
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 31:1 . 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...
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's Appeal to be Heard
Habakkuk 2:11 ; James 5:4 ; Job 20:27 ; Psalms 65:13
Cry — Because I have gotten it by fraud or violence.