Job 37

Job 37:1

Astonied - At the day of his destruction. They shall be amazed at the suddenness, and dreadfulness of it. Before - Before the persons last mentioned. Those who lived in the time and place where this judgment was inflicted.

Job 37:2

The place - The condition.

Job 37:4

The place - The condition.

Job 37:5

The place - The condition.

Job 37:6

Ten - Many times. A certain number for an uncertain. Strange - That you carry yourselves like strangers to me, and condemn me as if you had never known my integrity.

Job 37:7

Erred - If I have sinned, I myself suffer for my sins, and therefore deserve your pity rather than reproaches.

Job 37:10

Cry - Unto God. Wrong - That I am oppressed by my friends.

Job 37:12

Glory - Of my estate, children, authority, and all my comforts. Crown - All my power, and laid my honour in the dust.

Job 37:13

Every side - In all respects, my person, and family, and estate. Gone - I am a lost and dead man. Hope - All my hopes of the present life, but not of the life to come. Tree - Which being once plucked up by the roots, never grows again. Hope in this life is a perishing thing. But the hope of good men, when it is cut off from this world, is but removed like a tree, transplanted from this nursery to the garden of God.

Job 37:15

Troops - My afflictions, which are God’s soldiers marching under his conduct. Raise - Cast up a trench round about me.

Job 37:16

Estranged - As we must eye the hand of God, in all the injuries we receive from our enemies, so likewise in all the slights and unkindnesses we receive from our friends.

Job 37:18

Maids - Who by reason of their sex, commonly have more compassionate hearts than men.

Job 37:21

Arose - From my seat, to shew my respect to them, though they were my inferiors.

Job 37:22

Inward - My intimates and confidants, to whom I imparted all my thoughts and counsels.

Job 37:23

Skin - Immediately, the fat and flesh next to the skin being consumed. As - As closely as it doth to these remainders of flesh which are left in my inward parts.

Job 37:24

Touched me - My spirit is touched with a sense of his wrath, a calamity of all others the most grievous.