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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD. And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house: That was a bad day for trouble to come. Satan selected that day because it was a joyful day, and therefore it would make the trials of Job the more startling. Moreover if Job could...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there was a day,.... Which according to the Targum was the first day of the week, but this is not certain, nor material; nor can it be said whether it was the day following that, Satan had leave to do what he would with Job's substance, nor how long this was after that; for though Satan was no doubt eager upon it, and in haste to do mischief;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there came a messenger unto Job,.... Not a messenger of Satan, as Jarchi, or one of his angels, or evil spirits; though this is a sense which is embraced not only by some Jewish Rabbins, but by several of the ancient Christian writers, as Sanctius on the place observes; and such they suppose the other messengers after mentioned were; but both...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. The bad news comes to him all of a sudden, just when he is thinking of something very...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the Sabeans fell upon them,.... Or, "Sheba fell" (e); that is, as Aben Ezra and Simeon Bar Tzemach supply it, an host of the Sabeans, or a company of them; these were not the descendants of that Sheba that sprung from Ham, Genesis 10:7 nor of him that came from Shem, Genesis 10:28, but from Sheba, the son of Jokshan, a son of Abraham by...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
While he was yet speaking, there came also another,.... Another messenger, one of Job's servants, from another part of his fields where his sheep were grazing, and was one of those that kept them; he came with another piece of bad news, even before the other had finished his whole account; and the same is observed of all the other messengers that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While he was yet speaking,- As if to give Job no time to rally his faith and encourage his heart,- Job_1:16. There came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. This calamity must have distressed Job all the more...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Now, if that lightning had fallen on the Sabeans while they were robbing and plundering, one might not have wondered; but to fall on the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
While he was yet speaking, there came also another,.... Another messenger from another part of Job's possessions, where his camels were, and this before the last messenger had told his story out: and said, the Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away; these were the 3000 camels, as in Job 1:3 and perhaps...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. He had not time to think before the heaviest stroke of all came:-
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the word; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Three such heavy blows will surely be enough to test the patriarch, but a fourth messenger came with...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
While he was yet speaking, there came another,.... A servant of one of Job's sons, who was in waiting at the feast before mentioned, and here again repeated: and said, thy sons and thy daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house; [See comments on Job 1:13].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While he was yet speaking there came also another, and said, Thy Sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and, they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Satan...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Did...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness,.... Most probably from the wilderness of Arabia, winds from such places being generally very strong, Jeremiah 4:11 as this was, and is called a "great one", a very strong and blustering one; and being so, and because of the effects of it, and being an uncommon and extraordinary one, as what...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then Job arose,.... Either from table, being at dinner, as some think, in his own house; it being the time that his children were feasting in their eldest brother's house; or from the business in which he was employed, which he stopped on hearing this news; or from his seat, or chair of state in which he sat; or rather the phrase only signifies,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then Job arose,- With all his burden on him, he arose,- Job_1:20. And rent his mantle, and shaved his head,- He did not pull his hair out as a Pagan, or a maniac, or a person delirious through trouble might have done; but he deliberately “rent his mantle, and shaved his head,”- Job_1:20. And fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,- Grand old...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. Oh, the triumphs of almighty...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And said, naked came I out of my mother's womb,.... Either literally, where he was conceived and lay, and from whence he came into the world, though he afterwards wishes he never had, or had died as soon as he did, Job 3:10, and so it is expressive of his birth, and the circumstance of it; or figuratively, his mother earth, from whence the first...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: That is, to the womb of Mother Earth. Job_1:21. The LORD gave and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. I think these are the grandest words in the whole record of human speech. Considering the circumstances of the man at the time, that he should...