2 Kings 22:20; Isaiah 57:1; Job 15:22; Job 18:18; Job 18:6; Job 19:8; Job 22:11; Job 6:9
Because I was not cut off before the darkness - Before these calamities came upon me. Because I was not taken away in the midst of prosperity, an...
Because I was not cut off before the (l) darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face. (l) He shows the cause for his fear, which i...
But God follows His own will and does what He pleases. Therefore Job is afraid. In Job 23:13 a read with Duhm, But he has decreed. Job 23:14...
Because, &c. See translation below. darkness. Hebrew. hashak . See note on Job 3:6 . darkness. Hebrew. 'ophel . See note on Job 3:6 ....
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. Because I was not cut off - "O, why can I not dra...
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. Because I was not taken away by death from t...
Job's Seventh Speech (Job 23, 24) Job makes but slight reference to the remarks of Eliphaz, but continues to brood over the mysteries of God's dea...
RM 'For I am not dismayed because of the darkness, not because thick darkness covereth my face.' Job means that his sufferings do not distress him so...
XX. WHERE IS ELOAH? Job 23:1-17 ; Job 24:1-25 Job SPEAKS THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some reference to his...
“He Knoweth the Way That I Take” Job 23:1-17 This chapter is threaded by a sublime faith. Job admitted that his complaint seemed rebellious, bu...
In answer to Eliphaz, ob took no notice of the terrible charges made against him. That is postponed to a later speech. Rather, he discussed Eliphai c...
(13) В¶ But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. (14) For he performeth the thing that is appoint...
REFLECTIONS READER, I cannot beg a greater blessing from our gracious Covenant GOD in CHRIST, either for you or for myself, than that a Spirit of gr...
Because I was not cut off before the darkness ,.... That is, it was amazing to him, and troubled him when he thought of it, that he was not cut off...
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face. Ver. 17. Because I was not cut off before the...
For God maketh my heart soft Or, tender; he hath bruised and broken, or melted it, so that I have no spirit, or courage, or strength in me: so th...
HE LONGS TO LAY HIS CASE BEFORE GOD (vv.1-9) What Eliphaz has said to Job was hardly worth an answer, so that Job practically ignores this and l...
Job's Comfort in His Integrity. B. C. 1520....
Because I was not cut off; because God did not cut me off by death. Before the darkness , i.e. before these dark and dismal miseries came upon me....
JOB’S THIRD REPLY TO ELIPHAZ Ceases directly to address his friends. His present speech rather a soliloquy. Takes no notice of the charges laid...
Job is in great physical pain through the sore boils that cover him from head to foot; he is still smarting under all the bereavements and losses he...
Job 23:3 . Oh that I knew where I might find him. Job sighs for the favours conferred on certain patriarchs, whom God had met. The living oracle w...
EXPOSITION Verses 1-24:25 Job replies to Eliphaz in a speech of no great length, which, though it occupies two chapters, runs to only forty-t...
Job Despairs of Finding Vindication in this Life
because I was not cut off before the darkness, his calamity alone did not strike him with dumb terror, neither hath He covered the darkness from my...
Job Challenged by Satan Job 1:1 - Job 23:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We begin today a series of studies on one of the most interesting charac...
Because — God did not cut me off by death. Before — These miseries came upon me. Covered — By hiding me in the grave.
17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.