highness. majesty.
endure. escape.
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...
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 me...
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...
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 be...
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...
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 li...
The thought of God's displeasure checked him, and a sense of His majesty kept him from sinning. 26-28. A reference to the worship of the heavenl...
I could not endure. — Rather, I was unable to act thus.
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 in...
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 i...
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....
(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...
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...
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...
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 hi...
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...
Job's Compassion to the Poor. B. C. 1520. ...
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 gre...
JOB’S SELF-VINDICATION.—HIS SOLILOQUY CONTINUED Concludes his speeches by a solemn, particular, and extended declaration of the purity and uprig...
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...
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 th...
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 charg...
Job Recounts his Blameless Conduct
For destruction from God was a terror to me, Job's fear of God's vengeance had always kept him from wicked acts of this kind, and by reason of His h...
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...
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 me...
23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.