Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 31:20

If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

If his loins have not blessed me – This is a personification by which the part of the body that had been clothed by the benevolence of Job, is supposed to speak and render him thanks.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

Verse 20. If his loins have not blessed me] This is a very delicate touch: the part that was cold and shivering is now covered with warm woollen. It feels the comfort; and by a fine prosopopoeia, is represented as blessing him who furnished the clothing.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

Blessed me, i.e. given him occasion to bless and praise me, and to pray to God to bless me for covering them; the loins being put synecdochically for the whole body: see the like expression Deu 24:13, and compare Gen 4:10; Luk 16:9.

With the fleece of my sheep; with clothing made of my wool.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

20. loinsThe parts of thebody benefited by Job are poetically described as thanking him; theloins before naked, when clad by me, wished me every blessing.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

If his loins have not blessed me,…. Which were girded and covered with garments he gave him; which, as often as he put on and girded his loins with, put him in mind of his generous benefactor, and this put him upon sending up an ejaculatory wish to heaven, that all happiness and blessedness might attend him, who had so comfortably clothed him; see Job 29:13;

and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep; not with a fleece of wool as taken off the back of the sheep, or with a sheep’s skin, having the wool on it, but with it, as made up into cloth; with a woollen garment, which was a kind of clothing that very early obtained, and is what is warm and comfortable, see De 22:11. Job clothed the naked, not with gay apparel, which was not necessary, but with decent and useful raiment, and not with the fleece of other men’s sheep, but with the fleece of his own sheep, or with cloth made of the wool of his own flock, giving what was his own and not others; which always should be observed in acts of charity; see 2Sa 12:4. Thus Christ, the antitype of Job, feeds the poor and the fatherless whom he finds, though he does not leave them so; it is at his own table, and with his own bread, with provisions of his own making; and clothes them with the robe of his righteousness, and garments of salvation, which is a clothing and a covering to them, and secures them from perishing, and causes joy and gladness in them, Isa 61:10.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

20. The loins, previously naked, are personified and poetically described as invoking upon him every blessing.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

Ver. 20. If his loins have not blessed me ] As being warm clothed by me; not with a suit of words, as those great benefactors, Jas 2:15-16 , who were much in mouth mercy, which indeed is good cheap; but a little handful of Job’s wool is much better than a mouthful of such airy courtesies, and would open more mouths to bless men who, today, for the most part, will be but as friends at a sneeze, the most you can get of them is, God bless you. These have as many flouts and curses as Job had well wishes, and God thereby had praises, according to that of our Saviour, Mat 5:16 .

And if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep ] His sheep were his own, else his charity had been unwarrantable. “Honour the Lord with thy substance,” Pro 3:9 , but see it be thine, and not another’s. “He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor,” Pro 22:9 ; specially if he have spared it out of his own belly to give to the hungry; if it were the bread of his own demense, or allowance, as some interpret it.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

loins have not blessed. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia, App-6:. the loins so covered.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

Job 29:11, Deu 24:13

Reciprocal: 2Sa 14:22 – thanked Neh 11:2 – blessed Job 22:6 – stripped Job 24:7 – the naked Job 34:28 – they Pro 27:26 – General Isa 58:7 – the naked Mat 25:36 – Naked Act 9:39 – and showing

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge