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Job 27:1-23
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Matthew Henry on Job 27:1-6Job 27:1-6 · Matthew Henry Concise CommentaryJob's friends now suffered him to speak, and he proceeded in a grave and useful manner. Job had confidence in the goodness both of his cause and of his God; and cheerfully committed his cause to him. But Job had not due…Job's Protestation of His Sincerity. (b. c. 1520.)Job 27:1-6 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleJOB'S PROTESTATION OF HIS SINCERITY. (B. C. 1520.) Job's discourse here is called a parable (mashal), the title of Solomon's proverbs, because it was grave and weighty, and very instructive, and he spoke as one having a…The Pulpit Commentary on Job 27:1-23Job 27:1-23 · The Pulpit CommentaryThis chapter divides itself into three distinct portions. In the first, which extends to the end of Job 27:6, Job is engaged in maintaining, with the utmost possible solemnity (verse 2), both his actual integrity (verse…The Pulpit Commentary on Job 27:1Job 27:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryMoreover Job continued his parable, and said. The word translated "parable" ( משׁל) is only used previously in Numbers 23:1-30, and Numbers 24:1-25. It is thought to "comprehend all discourses in which the results of di…The Pulpit Commentary on Job 27:1-10Job 27:1-10 · The Pulpit CommentaryJob's first parable: 1. The transgressions of a godly man. I. A DARING ACCUSATION. 1. Against whom directed? Against Eloah, the All-sufficient One; Shaddai, the All-powerful One, the Self-existent, Living One, whose uni…The Pulpit Commentary on Job 27:1-23Job 27:1-23 · The Pulpit CommentaryJob a victor in the controversy. After the last speech of Job the friends appear to be completely overcome and silenced, and the third of them does not venture to renew the attack. The sufferer therefore continues, in a…
commentaryMatthew Henry on Job 27:1-6Job's friends now suffered him to speak, and he proceeded in a grave and useful manner. Job had confidence in the goodness both of his cause and of his God; and cheerfully committed his cause to him. But Job had not due…Matthew HenrycommentaryJob's Protestation of His Sincerity. (b. c. 1520.)JOB'S PROTESTATION OF HIS SINCERITY. (B. C. 1520.) Job's discourse here is called a parable (mashal), the title of Solomon's proverbs, because it was grave and weighty, and very instructive, and he spoke as one having a…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Job 27:1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said. The word translated "parable" ( משׁל) is only used previously in Numbers 23:1-30, and Numbers 24:1-25. It is thought to "comprehend all discourses in which the results of di…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Job 27:1-23Job a victor in the controversy. After the last speech of Job the friends appear to be completely overcome and silenced, and the third of them does not venture to renew the attack. The sufferer therefore continues, in a…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Job 27:1-4Moral honesty. Job now almost loses sight of his vexatious friends as he breaks out into a long discourse. His first thought is to assert his integrity, without flinching before the charges that have been so recklessly…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Job 27:1-10Job's first parable: 1. The transgressions of a godly man. I. A DARING ACCUSATION. 1. Against whom directed? Against Eloah, the All-sufficient One; Shaddai, the All-powerful One, the Self-existent, Living One, whose uni…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Job 27:1-23This chapter divides itself into three distinct portions. In the first, which extends to the end of Job 27:6, Job is engaged in maintaining, with the utmost possible solemnity (verse 2), both his actual integrity (verse…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Job 27:2As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, Job has not previously introduced any form of adjuration. His "yea has been yea, and his nay nay." Now, however, under the solemn circumstances of the occasion, when he is…Joseph S. Exell and contributors