Job 31:40 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cocklek instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. ”

• Job 31:40 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Let thistles grow; - Genesis 3:18 . Thistles are valueless; and Job is so confident of entire innocence in regard to this, that he says he would be willing, if he were guilty, to have his whole...

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• Job 31:40 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The (f) words of Job are ended. (f) That is, the talk which he had with his three friends.

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• Job 31:40 - 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 31:40 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Let thistles grow. This is not an imprecation, but an argument in favor of his integrity: i.e. Had he been as his friends alleged, would he not have had bad instead of bountiful harvests? See trans...

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• Job 31:40 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. Let thistles grow instead of wheat - What the word חוח choach means, which we translate thistles, we cann...

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• Job 31:40 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. Thistles - or brambles; thorns. Cockle - literally, noxious weeds, perhaps wolfsbane, which i...

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• Job 31:40 - 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 31:40 - 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 31:40 - 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 31:40 - 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 31:40 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 31:40 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley ,.... This is an imprecation of Job's, in which he wishes that if what he had said was not true, or if he was guilty of the crimes he...

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• Job 31:40 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. Ver. 40. Let thistles grow instead of wheat ] This was a piece of that first curse, Genesis 3:8 , und...

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• Job 31:40 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 31:40 - 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 31:40 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Protestation of His Integrity. B. C. 1520.       33 If I covered my transgressions as...

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• Job 31:40 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  To wit, in answer to his friends; for he speaks but little afterwards, and that is to God.

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• Job 31:40 - 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 31:40 - 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 31:40 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The words of Job are ended. Job’s final position Running like a golden thread through all this vehement and passionate language, we have seen a vein of thought which has given this half-rebelli...

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• Job 31:40 - 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 31:40 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job's Appeal to be Heard

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• Job 31:40 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Genesis 3:17 ; Genesis 3:18 ; Isaiah 7:23 ; Malachi 1:3 ; Psalms 72:20 ; Zephaniah 2:9

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