Job 29:11

Witness — Gave testimony to my pious, and just, and blameless conversation.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When the ear heard me. - A personification for “they who heard me speak, blessed me.” That is, they commended or praised me. And when the eye...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

When the (g) ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me: (g) All that heard me, praised me.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 479 JOB’S CHARACTER Job 29:11-16 . When the ear heard me, then it blessed me: and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

When the ear heard me , then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me , it gave witness to me: When the ear heard me - This and the six following ver...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Blessed - extrolled my virtues ( Proverbs 31:28 )....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Gave witness to me ] i.e. to my goodness, which it saw.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me. — This is a direct negative to the charges of Eliphaz in Job 22:6 , &c. He has felt them too deeply...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me ,.... The ear of the common people assembled together to hear causes tried, and how they would go; when...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me: Ver. 11. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me Prayed to God to bless me, and pronounced a blessing upon me, because of the integrity, justice, and wisd...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

It blessed me, i.e. pronounced me to be a man blessed of God with eminent gifts and graces; or heartily prayed for God's blessing upon me, because...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S RETROSPECT Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends,...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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....
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Describes his Former Prosperity
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

When the ear heard me, as he gave his counsel in the assembly of the people, then it blessed me, calling him happy in the possession of so much wis...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 31:20 ; Luke 11:27 ; Luke 4:22 ; Proverbs 29:2

¹¹ When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

Related Commentaries of Job 29:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 29:11