Habakkuk 2:11; James 5:4; Job 20:27; Psalms 65:13
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 i...
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...
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...
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; Personification. The complaints of the unjustly ousted proprietors a...
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...
Or that the furrows likewise thereof complain. — Rather, Or if the furrows thereof weep together — a strong impersonation to express the conseque...
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....
(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 famili...
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 ; 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 a...
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 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...
Job's Protestation of His Integrity. B. C. 1520....
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...
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...
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's Appeal to be Heard
If my land cry against me, if his field should cry out for vengeance against its owner, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain, weeping in i...
Cry — Because I have gotten it by fraud or violence.
38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;i