Genesis 3:17; Genesis 3:18; Isaiah 7:23; Malachi 1:3; Psalms 72:20; Zephaniah 2:9
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...
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...
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...
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 hav...
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...
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. Thistles - or brambles; thorns. Cockle - li...
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...
Cockles] RM 'noisome weeds.' Job for the last time has maintained the integrity of his past life, and expressed his readiness to answer all charges...
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...
REFLECTIONS READER! while we behold the man of Uz in this chapter justifying himself against the unjust charges of his friends, and making appeal to...
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...
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 w...
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, in answer to his friends; for he speaks but little afterwards, and that is to God.
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...
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...
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
let thistles grow instead of wheat, briars, which would spoil the productiveness of the soil, and cockle, noxious, stinking weeds, instead of barl...
40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cocklek instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.