1.
Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 .
2.
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3.
Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Who is he . . . ? Supply the obvious Ellipsis ( App-6 ) thus: "[Thou askedst] 'Who is this? ' "&c.; which Jehovah did ask in Job 38:1-3 .
4.
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Hear = Hear, now.
I will demand of thee. Supply the Ellipsis ( App-6 ): "[Thou saidst]; ' Let him answer Me' "(See Job 40:2 ).
5.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
I abhor myself, and repent. "The end of the Lord" (i.e. what Jehovah designed as the great lesson of this book) is at length reached. Compare James 5:11 .
7.
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
these words: i.e. ch. Job 38:1 -- Job 41:34 .
not spoken of Me the thing that is right. We have, therefore, an inspired record of what they said; but all they said was not inspired, and cannot be quoted as the Word of Jehovah.
as My servant Job hath: i.e. in Job 42:1-6 .
8.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
seven. See App-10 .
burnt offering. Hebrew. 'olah . App-43 . See App-15 .
him = his face: face being put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), App-6 , for the whole person.
9.
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
Job. Hebrew the face of Job, as in Job 42:8 .
10.
And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
turned the captivity. Figure of speech Paronomasia ( App-6 ), shdb eth sh buth, emphasizing recovery or deliverance from any trouble, as in Psalms 126:1 , Psalms 126:4 , &c.
twice as much. This blessing was included in "the end of the Lord" (James 5:11 ). See note on p. 666.
11.
Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
evil = calamity. Hebrew. ra'a' . App-44 . Compare Isaiah 45:7 .
every man. Hebrew. 'ish . App-14 .
piece = weight, as in Genesis 33:19 . The Septuagint reads "a lamb, and four drachms weight of gold, even of unstamped [gold]"; or, "a piece of gold stamped with a lamb. "
every one. Hebrew. 'i s h . App-14 .
12.
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton ( App-6 ), in verses: Job 42:12-15 , to emphasize each particular thing.
13.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14.
And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
Jemima = beautiful as the day (Septuagint and Vulgate) or as a dove.
Kezia = fragrant as cassia (i.e. cinnamon).
Keren-happuch = horn of beauty or plenty. Compare Job 42:15 .
15.
And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
16.
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
an hundred and forty years: i.e. from 1656 to 1516.
17.
So Job died, being old and full of days.
full of days = satisfied with days. The Septuagint has a long subscription, for which see App-62 . The Arabic has a similar subscription, which professes to have been taken from the Syriac, but it is not in the Syriac version as given in Walton's Polyglot.