Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible

Chapter Outline Satan obtains leave to try Job. (1–6) Job's sufferings. (7–10) His friends come to comfort him. (11–13) Verses 1 ...

Chapter 3 Chapter Outline Job complains that he was born. (1–10) Job complaining. (11–19) He complains of his life. (20–26) Vers ...

get ready for another world, and then leave it to God to order our removal thither as he thinks fit. Grace teaches us in the mid ...

since man sinned, it has been terrible to him to receive communications from Heaven, conscious that he can expect no good tiding ...

Verses 6–16 Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference betwee ...

then, still to hang on and trust God, when we cannot trace him, this is the patience of the saints. Blessed Saviour! how sweet i ...

convictions of the vanity of the creature, as we have had, or shall have, on a sick-bed, a death-bed, or in trouble of conscienc ...

returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation vanishes away. Glorified saints shall return no more ...

favourable opinion of Job's character. Job owned that God did not pervert judgment; yet it did not therefore follow that his chi ...

Job complains of troubles. (25–35) Verses 1–13 In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he den ...

our charge. We shall be clothed with the robes of righteousness and salvation, adorned with the graces of the Holy Spirit, and p ...

much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outw ...

be deemed a hypocrite unless his prosperity was restored. Then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; that is, thou mayst com ...

been in confusion and ruin long ago. These important truths were suited to convince the disputants that they were out of their d ...

and guard against them for the future. Job complains sorrowfully of God's severe dealings with him. Time does not wear out the g ...

The life of man may fitly be compared to the waters of a land flood, which spread far, but soon dry up. All Job's expressions he ...

Verses 17–35 Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly ...

Verses 17–22 Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed hims ...

beds. Why should not they go willingly when their Father calls them? Let us remember our bodies are allied to corruption, the wo ...

shall perish, either with him or after him. Those who consult the true honour of their family, and its welfare, will be afraid o ...