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Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible
The Glory of Mordecai. (b. c. 495.)
THE GLORY OF MORDECAI. (B. C. 495.) We are here told, I. How great and powerful king Ahasuerus was. He had a vast dominion, both in the continent and among the islands, from which he raised a vast revenue. Besides the u…
Job's Character and Possessions. (b. c. 1520.)
JOB'S CHARACTER AND POSSESSIONS. (B. C. 1520.) Concerning Job we are here told, I. That he was a man; therefore subject to like passions as we are. He was Ish, a worthy man, a man of note and eminency, a magistrate, a m…
Job's Solicitude for His Children. (b. c. 1520.)
JOB'S SOLICITUDE FOR HIS CHILDREN. (B. C. 1520.) We have here a further account of Job's prosperity and his piety. I. His great comfort in his children is taken notice of as an instance of his prosperity; for our tempor…
Satan before God; Satan Permitted to Afflict Job. (b. c. 1520.)
SATAN BEFORE GOD; SATAN PERMITTED TO AFFLICT JOB. (B. C. 1520.) Job was not only so rich and great, but withal so wise and good, and had such an interest both in heaven and earth, that one would think the mountain of hi…
The Calamities Brought on Job; The Death of Job's Children. (b. c. 1520.)
THE CALAMITIES BROUGHT ON JOB; THE DEATH OF JOB'S CHILDREN. (B. C. 1520.) We have here a particular account of Job's troubles. I. Satan brought them upon him on the very day that his children began their course of feast…
Job's Sorrow and Submission. (b. c. 1520.)
JOB'S SORROW AND SUBMISSION. (B. C. 1520.) The devil had done all he desired leave to do against Job, to provoke him to curse God. He had touched all he had, touched it with a witness; he whom the rising sun saw the ric…
Satan Again Permitted to Afflict Job. (b. c. 1520.)
SATAN AGAIN PERMITTED TO AFFLICT JOB. (B. C. 1520.) Satan, that sworn enemy to God and all good men, is here pushing forward his malicious prosecution of Job, whom he hated because God loved him, and did all he could to…
Job Smitten with Disease; The Affliction of Job. (b. c. 1520.)
JOB SMITTEN WITH DISEASE; THE AFFLICTION OF JOB. (B. C. 1520.) The devil, having got leave to tear and worry poor Job, presently fell to work with him, as a tormentor first and then as a tempter. His own children he tem…
Job Visited by His Friends. (b. c. 1520.)
JOB VISITED BY HIS FRIENDS. (B. C. 1520.) We have here an account of the kind visit which Job's three friends paid him in his affliction. The news of his extraordinary troubles spread into all parts, he being an eminent…
Job Curses His Day. (b. c. 1520.)
JOB CURSES HIS DAY. (B. C. 1520.) Long was Job's heart hot within him; and, while he was musing, the fire burned, and the more for being stifled and suppressed. At length he spoke with his tongue, but not such a good wo…
Job's Complaint of Life. (b. c. 1520.)
JOB'S COMPLAINT OF LIFE. (B. C. 1520.) Job, perhaps reflecting upon himself for his folly in wishing he had never been born, follows it, and thinks to mend it, with another, little better, that he had died as soon as he…
Matthew Henry on Job 3:20-26
Job, finding it to no purpose to wish either that he had not been born or had died as soon as he was born, here complains that his life was now continued and not cut off. When men are set on quarrelling there is no end…
The Address of Eliphaz. (b. c. 1520.)
THE ADDRESS OF ELIPHAZ. (B. C. 1520.) In these verses, I. Eliphaz excuses the trouble he is now about to give to Job by his discourse (Job 4:2): "If we assay a word with thee, offer a word of reproof and counsel, wilt t…
Matthew Henry on Job 4:7-11
Eliphaz here advances another argument to prove Job a hypocrite, and will have not only his impatience under his afflictions to be evidence against him but even his afflictions themselves, being so very great and extrao…
Matthew Henry on Job 4:12-21
Eliphaz, having undertaken to convince Job of the sin and folly of his discontent and impatience, here vouches a vision he had been favoured with, which he relates to Job for his conviction. What comes immediately from…
The Address of Eliphaz. (b. c. 1520.)
THE ADDRESS OF ELIPHAZ. (B. C. 1520.) A very warm dispute being begun between Job and his friends, Eliphaz here makes a fair motion to put the matter to a reference. In all debates perhaps the sooner this is done the be…
Matthew Henry on Job 5:6-16
Eliphaz, having touched Job in a very tender part, in mentioning both the loss of his estate and the death of his children as the just punishment of his sin, that he might not drive him to despair, here begins to encour…
Matthew Henry on Job 5:17-27
Eliphaz, in this concluding paragraph of his discourse, gives Job (what he himself knew not how to take) a comfortable prospect of the issue of his afflictions, if he did but recover his temper and accommodate himself t…
Job's Reply to Eliphaz. (b. c. 1520.)
JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ. (B. C. 1520.) Eliphaz, in the beginning of his discourse, had been very sharp upon Job, and yet it does not appear that Job gave him any interruption, but heard him patiently till he had said all…
Matthew Henry on Job 6:8-13
Ungoverned passion often grows more violent when it meets with some rebuke and check. The troubled sea rages most when it dashes against a rock. Job had been courting death, as that which would be the happy period of hi…
Matthew Henry on Job 6:14-21
Eliphaz had been very severe in his censures of Job; and his companions, though as yet they had said little, yet had intimated their concurrence with him. Their unkindness therein poor Job here complains of, as an aggra…
Matthew Henry on Job 6:22-30
Poor Job goes on here to upbraid his friends with their unkindness and the hard usage they gave him. He here appeals to themselves concerning several things which tended both to justify him and to condemn them. If they…
Job's Reply to Eliphaz. (b. c. 1520.)
JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ. (B. C. 1520.) Job is here excusing what he could not justify, even his inordinate desire of death. Why should he not wish for the termination of life, which would be the termination of his miseri…
Matthew Henry on Job 7:7-16
Job, observing perhaps that his friends, though they would not interrupt him in his discourse, yet began to grow weary, and not to heed much what he said, here turns to God, and speaks to him. If men will not hear us, G…