Bible Commentary

[Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. 8. The imprecation. let my offspring be rooted out ] Rather, let my produce, i. e. what springs out of that which I have planted or sown; comp. Lev 26:16; Deu 28:33. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 31:8”

If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; 7. out of the way ] i. e. the way of rectitude, set before him by God, ch. Job 23:11. This going out of the way is amplified in the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 31:7”

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. 6. A solemn assertion before God the judge that his denial in Job 31:5 is true. The words are parenthetical. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Let me be weighed in an even balance – Margin, him weigh me … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 31:6”

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 5. “Falsehood” or vanity, which is not merely in word but in thought, and “deceit” are here treated as persons; with the one Job denies that he has “walked,” i. e. accompanied it, and the other he denies that he “hasted … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 31:5”

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? 4. Here “ways” and “steps” are said of things so slight as the glance of the eye. These are “seen” and “counted” by God. The thought of God in these verses is as lofty as the conception of morality is close and inward. Fuente: … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 31:4”

[Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity? Is not destruction to the wicked? – That is, Job says that he was well aware that destruction would overtake the wicked, and that if he had given indulgence to impure desires he could have looked for nothing else. Well … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 31:3”

For what portion of God [is there] from above? and [what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 2 4. The considerations that restrained him from such a sin. These are recited as they then influenced his mind. 2. And what is the portion from God above? And what the heritage from the Almighty on … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 31:2”

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 1. The “eye,” the lusts of which are frequently spoken of in scripture, is the great inlet through which that which is without affects the heart and stirs evil desire. Job made a “covenant” or agreement with his eyes, that … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 31:1”

My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. 31. The joyous music of his former life is turned into wailing. The “organ” is the pipe, ch. Job 21:12; comp. Lam 5:15. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges My harp also is turned to mourning … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 30:31”

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. 30. is black upon me ] Or, is black and falls from me. The “heat” in his bones refers to his burning pains. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges My skin is black upon me; – see Job 30:28. It … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 30:30”