Ezekiel 3:26; Psalms 137:6
The nobles - Margin, “The voice of the nobles was hid.” Literally, this may be rendered, “as to the voice the nobles hid themselves;” or the phra...
Job 29. Job's Former Happy Days. Job 29:1-6 . Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means in...
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. The nobles held their peace - Princes שרים sarim, and Nobles, נגידי...
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! The great influence Job had over young and old, and noble...
Job's Past Greatness and Happiness Job mournfully recalls the days of God's favour, and the prosperity and honour he once enjoyed. In this chapter...
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 Bitter Memory of the Happy Past Job 29:1-25 How many thousands, looking back on the beautiful dawn of life which has become overcast, have...
Job now moved a step forward in his reply. He was still without a solution. That of his friends he utterly repudiated. In order to prepare the way fo...
(6) When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; (7) В¶ When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepare...
The nobles held their peace ,.... These may be in some respects inferior to the others; not princes of the blood, or sons of kings, who were properl...
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. Ver. 10. The nobles held their peace ] The Hebrew word for noble...
The young men saw me and hid themselves Out of reverence to my person and dignity, or out of a consciousness of their guilt and folly, which they s...
JOB'S PAST GREATNESS In this chapter Job dwells upon the honour and dignity that had been his in the past. While he was sincere in what he said, a...
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and th...
It lay as still as if it had done so, and they could not have spoken.
JOB’S RETROSPECT Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends,...
Job 29:3 . When his candle shined upon my head; that is, when the light of his countenance shone upon me, in every form of patriarchal prosperity....
EXPOSITION Job 29:1-18 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man...
Job Describes his Former Prosperity
The nobles held their peace, literally, "the voice of nobles hid itself," or, "themselves," it was no longer heard, and their tongue cleaved to the...
Cleaved — It lay as still as if he had done so.
10 The noblesc held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.