Bible Commentary

While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 17. The third stroke. The name Chaldeans was … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 1:17”

While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 16. The second stroke. The fire of God can hardly have been the sultry, poisonous … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 1:16”

And the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. And the Sabeans – Hebrew sheba’, Vulgate, Suboei. The Septuagint gives a paraphrase, kai elthonia hoi aichmaloteuontes echmaloteusan, And the plunderers coming, plundered them, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 1:15”

And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: 14, 15. The first stroke, the loss of the oxen and she-asses, with the slaughter of the servants. Job’s servants were probably armed, as is usual in the East, and offered resistance, for the Bedawin do … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 1:14”

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: 13 22. Job’s first trial; and its issue: his reverence towards God remains unshaken Between Job 1:12-13 there is an interval, an ominous stillness like that which precedes the storm. The poet has drawn … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 1:13”

And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath [is] in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD. 12. Satan receives permission to try Job, but the length he can go is rigidly bounded by the will of the Most … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 1:12”

But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. 11. curse thee to thy face ] that is, renounce thee openly. See on Job 1:5. The phrase and he will curse thee has the form of an oath in the Heb. Satan so little … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 1:11”

Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. Hast thou not made an hedge about him? – Dr. Good remarks, that to give the original word … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 1:10”

Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for naught? 9. for nought ] Satan does not dispute Job’s piety; only, the devotion of the rich landowner to the Bountiful Giver of all good is not ill to understand! A different estimate of what true religion is and of the things that … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 1:9”

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? 8. The integrity and godliness attributed to Job by the author of the Poem are confirmed by God Himself. Fuente: The … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 1:8”