Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 22:28
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee – Thou shalt form a purpose or plan, and it shall not be frustrated. It shall not be opposed by the events of divine Providence, but whatever you undertake shall prosper.
And the light shall shine upon thy ways – Thou shalt be prospered in all things, instead of being overtaken with calamity.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 28. Thou shalt also decree a thing] Whatsoever thou purposest in his strength, thou shalt be enabled to accomplish.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Thy purposes and designs shall not be disappointed, but effected and ratified by God; which is a great satisfaction. In all thy counsels, and courses, and actions, God shall give thee the light of his direction and governance, and of comfort and success; and thou shalt not be in such a dark, and doubtful, and perplexed condition as now thou art.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
28. lightsuccess.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee,…. Strictly speaking, this is only true of God, whose decrees are unfrustrable, whose counsel shall stand, and the thoughts of his heart be established to all generations; and frequently so it is, according to an usual saying, man appoints, but God disappoints; this may be understood of Job, either as a civil magistrate, that he should decree a thing in a court of judicature with so much wisdom and equity, that it should stand firm and sure, and, though made on earth, should be ratified in heaven, as the decrees and doctrines of the apostles of Christ are said to be, Mt 16:19; see Pr 8:15; or, as a private man in civil affairs, signifying that he should be so guided by the Lord, and prospered and succeeded in all his ways and works, that what he determined to do, and formed a scheme for the execution of, it should be brought about and confirmed; he committing his ways to the Lord, his thoughts should be established, or his purposes and designs effected, see Ps 1:3; or rather as a praying man; and so it agrees with what goes before, that he should lift up his voice to God, and pray unto him with success, and have just occasion to praise him, or pay his vows to him, since he should have the desires of his heart; whatever was upon his mind, and he prayed in faith for, he should have it; as Elijah prayed, both that it might not rain, and that it might rain, and both were according to his word, or the decree of his lips in prayer: see 1Ki 17:1;
and the light shall shine upon thy ways; which is the reason of all things prospering and succeeding, and being established according to his wish and will; the light of grace shining in him, to put him upon and instruct him in denying and avoiding that which is sinful, and doing that which was just and good; and the light of the word without him, being a light unto his feet, and a lamp to his paths, to guide and direct him, and especially the light of God’s favour and blessing on him, succeeding him in all his ways and works, and making them prosperous.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(28) Thou shalt also decree a thing.As, for instance, in the memorable case of Abrahams intercession for Sodom, to which there is not improbably an allusion here.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
b. His prayers shall prevail with God, not only on his own behalf, but on the behalf of others; an unconscious prediction of the final offices Job was called to fulfil, Job 22:26-30.
28. Decree a thing In a certain sense, under the economy of grace, man’s decrees become God’s decrees. The purposes of faith God is pleased to accept, and thus they become His purpose. The fiat of man in itself may be but a tinkling cymbal in the scheme of grace it may become the power of God.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
Ver. 28. Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee ] God will be better to thee than thy prayers; and prosper all thy counsels, effect thy designs. The ungodly are not so, as is to be seen in those revolted Israelites, Jdg 2:1-3 , in King Saul, and in our King John. Or if they have their designs, it is for a further mischief to them. As, if the godly be crossed, it is in mercy; like as the story is told of our Queen Isabel, that being to repass from Zealand into England with an army, they had all been utterly cast away had she come unto the port intended, being there expected by her enemies. But Providence, against her will, brought her to another place, where she safely landed. The like is reported of Bishop Jewel, that being sought for by the Popish persecutors, he had been caught, but that, going to London, he lost his way (Mr Clark in his Life, p. 262).
And the light shall shine upon thy ways
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
decree: Psa 20:4, Psa 90:17, Lam 3:37, Mat 21:22, Jam 4:15
the light: Job 29:3, Psa 97:11, Psa 112:4, Pro 4:18, Isa 30:21, Mal 4:2, Joh 8:12
Reciprocal: 1Ch 4:10 – God granted Psa 37:5 – and Pro 16:3 – thy thoughts Pro 28:2 – but
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 22:28-29. It shall be established Thy purposes shall not be disappointed, but ratified by God. And in all thy counsels and actions God shall give thee the light of his direction and governance, and of comfort and success. When men are cast down When, in a time of general calamity, all are cast down round about thee, cast down in their affairs, cast down in their spirits, sinking, desponding, ready to despair; when mens hearts fail them for fear, or, rather, according to the Hebrew, (in which there is nothing for men, and which is only , chi hishpilu, cum depresserint,) when they have cast thee down, or, when thou art cast down; when God, in the course of his providence, shall bring thee, or suffer thee to be brought, into any trouble which he sees will be good for thee; thou shalt say Within thyself, with good confidence and assurance; There is lifting up Or, there shall be lifting up; either, 1st, For them, who, if they repent and humble themselves, shall be preserved and restored: or, rather, for thee and thine: God will deliver thee, when others are crushed and destroyed. Hebrew, Thou shalt say, , gerah, exaltation! an expression to be admired for its conciseness and comprehensiveness. Thou shalt expect exaltation in the time of depression; nay, thy depression shall be in order to, and the means of, thy exaltation. And thou shalt find that consolation in thyself, which will not only bear thee up under thy troubles, and keep thee from fainting, but lift thee up above thy troubles, and enable thee to rejoice notwithstanding them. And he God, from whom alone cometh salvation; shall save Temporally from the evils here mentioned, and eternally from other and infinitely greater evils; the humble person Hebrew, , shach gneinaim, him that hath low or cast-down eyes; which phrase may denote, either, 1st, Humility and lowliness of mind, as pride is often expressed by high or lofty looks; and so this is a tacit reproof of Job, for his confident justification of himself: or, 2d, Lowness of state and condition, as Jas 1:10. And so understood, it describes him, whose eyes and countenance are dejected by reason of great troubles and miseries.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the {t} light shall shine upon thy ways.
(t) That is, the favour of God.