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Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible
Matthew Henry on Job 15:17-35
Eliphaz, having reproved Job for his answers, here comes to maintain his own thesis, upon which he built his censure of Job. His opinion is that those who are wicked are certainly miserable, whence he would infer that t…
The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. (b. c. 1520.)
THE REPLY OF JOB TO ELIPHAZ. (B. C. 1520.) Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly take, which is to undervalue one another's sense, and wisdom, and management. The longer the saw of contenti…
Grievances of Job. (b. c. 1520.)
GRIEVANCES OF JOB. (B. C. 1520.) Job's complaint is here as bitter as any where in all his discourses, and he is at a stand whether to smother it or to give it vent. Sometimes the one and sometimes the other is a relief…
Testimony of Conscience; Job's Comfort in Conscious Integrity. (b. c. 1520.)
TESTIMONY OF CONSCIENCE; JOB'S COMFORT IN CONSCIOUS INTEGRITY. (B. C. 1520.) Job's condition was very deplorable; but had he nothing to support him, nothing to comfort him? Yes, and he here tells us what it was. I. He h…
Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. (b. c. 1520.)
DEPLORABLE CONDITION OF JOB; THE IMPROVEMENT OF JOB'S TROUBLES. (B. C. 1520.) Job's discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; b…
Job Reproves His Three Friends; Vanity of Worldly Expectations. (b. c. 1520.)
JOB REPROVES HIS THREE FRIENDS; VANITY OF WORLDLY EXPECTATIONS. (B. C. 1520.) Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows, I. That it was their…
Second Address of Eliphaz. (b. c. 1520.)
SECOND ADDRESS OF ELIPHAZ. (B. C. 1520.) Bildad here shoots his arrows, even bitter words, against poor Job, little thinking that, though he was a wise and good man, in this instance he was serving Satan's design in add…
Miserable Condition of the Wicked. (b. c. 1520.)
MISERABLE CONDITION OF THE WICKED. (B. C. 1520.) The rest of Bildad's discourse is entirely taken up in an elegant description of the miserable condition of a wicked man, in which there is a great deal of certain truth,…
Matthew Henry on Job 18:11-21
Bildad here describes the destruction itself which wicked people are reserved for in the other world, and which, in some degree, often seizes them in this world. Come, and see what a miserable condition the sinner is in…
The Reply of Job to Bildad. (b. c. 1520.)
THE REPLY OF JOB TO BILDAD. (B. C. 1520.) Job's friends had passed a very severe censure upon him as a wicked man because he was so grievously afflicted; now here he tells them how ill he took it to be so censured. Bild…
Job Complains of God's Displeasure; Job Complains of His Friends. (b. c. 1520.)
JOB COMPLAINS OF GOD'S DISPLEASURE; JOB COMPLAINS OF HIS FRIENDS. (B. C. 1520.) Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job's complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and ye…
Job's Confession of Faith; Happiness of the Redeemed. (b. c. 1520.)
JOB'S CONFESSION OF FAITH; HAPPINESS OF THE REDEEMED. (B. C. 1520.) In all the conferences between Job and his friends we do not find any more weighty and considerable lines than these; would one have expected it? Here…
Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. (b. c. 1520.)
SECOND ADDRESS OF ZOPHAR; DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED. (B. C. 1520.) Here, I. Zophar begins very passionately, and seems to be in a great heat at what Job had said. Being resolved to condemn Job for a bad man, he was much…
Misery of the Wicked. (b. c. 1520.)
MISERY OF THE WICKED. (B. C. 1520.) The instances here given of the miserable condition of the wicked man in this world are expressed with great fulness and fluency of language, and the same thing returned to again and…
Matthew Henry on Job 20:23-29
Zophar, having described the many embarrassments and vexations which commonly attend the wicked practices of oppressors and cruel men, here comes to show their utter ruin at last. I. Their ruin will take its rise from G…
The Reply of Job to Zophar. (b. c. 1520.)
THE REPLY OF JOB TO ZOPHAR. (B. C. 1520.) Job here recommends himself, both his case and his discourse, both what he suffered and what he said, to the compassionate consideration of his friends. 1. That which he entreat…
Prosperity of the Wicked; Abuse of Earthly Prosperity. (b. c. 1520.)
PROSPERITY OF THE WICKED; ABUSE OF EARTHLY PROSPERITY. (B. C. 1520.) All Job's three friends, in their last discourses, had been very copious in describing the miserable condition of a wicked man in this world. "It is t…
Certain Punishments of the Wicked; Divine Sovereignty. (b. c. 1520.)
CERTAIN PUNISHMENTS OF THE WICKED; DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY. (B. C. 1520.) Job had largely described the prosperity of wicked people; now, in these verses, I. He opposes this to what his friends had maintained concerning thei…
Punishment of the Wicked. (b. c. 1520.)
PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED. (B. C. 1520.) In these verses, I. Job opposes the opinion of his friends, which he saw they still adhered to, that the wicked are sure to fall into such visible and remarkable ruin as Job had n…
Third Address of Eliphaz. (b. c. 1520.)
THIRD ADDRESS OF ELIPHAZ. (B. C. 1520.) Eliphaz here insinuates that, because Job complained so much of his afflictions, he thought God was unjust in afflicting him; but it was a strained innuendo. Job was far from thin…
Job Accused of Various Crimes. (b. c. 1520.)
JOB ACCUSED OF VARIOUS CRIMES. (B. C. 1520.) Eliphaz and his companions had condemned Job, in general, as a wicked man and a hypocrite; but none of them had descended to particulars, nor drawn up any articles of impeach…
Judgments Executed on the Wicked. (b. c. 1520.)
JUDGMENTS EXECUTED ON THE WICKED. (B. C. 1520.) Eliphaz, having endeavoured to convict Job, by setting his sins (as he thought) in order before him, here endeavours to awaken him to a sight and sense of his misery and d…
The Good Counsel of Eliphaz; Encouragements to Return to God. (b. c. 1520.)
THE GOOD COUNSEL OF ELIPHAZ; ENCOURAGEMENTS TO RETURN TO GOD. (B. C. 1520.) Methinks I can almost forgive Eliphaz his hard censures of Job, which we had in the beginning of the chapter, though they were very unjust and…
The Reply of Job to Eliphaz; Job Appeals from Man to God. (b. c. 1520.)
THE REPLY OF JOB TO ELIPHAZ; JOB APPEALS FROM MAN TO GOD. (B. C. 1520.) Job is confident that he has wrong done him by his friends, and therefore, ill as he is, he will not give up the cause, nor let them have the last…