Bible Commentary

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust. 16. The truth in regard to his hope is this, something different from the tale of his friends, It shall go down to the bars of the pit, When once there is rest in the dust. The … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 17:16”

And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 15. If in fact and in his own feeling Job so surely belongs to death, where is the brilliant hope which his friends hold out, and who shall ever see such a hope realized? or, who can perceive a trace of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 17:15”

I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister. 14. to corruption ] Rather as above, the pit, or grave, Psa 16:10. The words father, mother and sister, expressing the nearest relationship, indicate how closely Job now feels himself connected with the grave, he wholly … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 17:14”

If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 13. If I wait, the grave ] Rather as above. The grave is in Heb. Sheol, the place of the departed. The word wait is the same as hope, Job 17:15. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 17:13”

They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness. 12. This verse appears to be a description by Job of the delusive and foolish proceeding of his friends. They change the night into day ] The night of calamity and death in which Job is enveloped and into which he is … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 17:12”

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart. 11. Very different from their delusive anticipations was the truth in regard to Job’s condition. His days were past, and his life with all its cherished purposes cut off. The thoughts of his heart is lit. as margin, the possessions, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 17:11”

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you. 10. do ye return, and come ] Job bids them renew, if they please, their attempts to solve his problem or deal with his case; as often as they did so they only revealed their … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 17:10”

The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. 9. The righteous also shall hold on ] Or, But the righteous shall hold on. The righteous will not allow themselves to be misled from the path of rectitude by these moral wrongs which they see … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 17:9”

Upright [men] shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. 8, 9. Effect produced on religious minds by the sight of such sufferings inflicted on the godly. Such moral perversions in the rule of the world “confound” religious men, and rouse their moral indignation against the wicked, who … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 17:8”

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow. 7. The sorrowful condition to which Job was reduced by his afflictions. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Mine eye is dim by reason of sorrow – Schultens supposes that this refers to his external appearance … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 17:7”