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The slothful desire the gains the diligent get, but hate the pains the diligent take; therefore they have nothing. This is especially true as to the soul.
(Compare Pr 12:11, 27).heavy--The literal sense of "heavy," applied to material subjects, illustrates its figurative, "grievous," applied to moral. a fool's wrath--is unreasonable and excessive.
Every man has his proper place in society, where he may be safe and comfortable.
Such are not only out of place, but out of duty and in danger.
We are cautioned to take heed whom we converse with. And directed to have in view, in conversation, to make one another wiser and better.
a man sharpeneth...friend--that is, conversation...
Some are so bad, that even severe methods do not answer the end; what remains but that they should be rejected? The new-creating power of God's grace alone is able to make a change.
The...destruction--literally, "breaking into shivers" (Re 2:27). The prophets hasten forward to the final extinction of the ungodly (Ps37:20; Re 19:20; 20:15); of which antecedent judgments are types.
lofty looks--literally, "eyes of pride" (Ps 18:27). humbled--by calamities. God will so vindicate His honor "in that day" of judgments, that none else "shall be exalted" (Zec 14:9).
before--literally, from the time of the first existence of day. let--Old English for "hinder" (Isa 14:27). Rather, translate, "undo it" [Horsley].
Not even in those days of judgments, will God utterly exterminate His people. I will not make a full end with you--(Jer 5:10; Jer 4:27).
portion of thy measures--the portion which I have measured out to thee (Job 20:29; Ps 11:6). falsehood--(Jer 13:27), false gods and alliances with foreign idolaters.
sign--portent of evil to come (Eze 24:27; Zec 3:8, Margin). Fulfilled (2Ki 25:1-7; Jer 52:1-11).
set light by--Children have made light of, disrespected, father ... (De 27:16). At Eze 22:7-12 are enumerated the sins committed in violation of Moses' law.
the last end of the indignation--God's displeasure against the Jews for their sins. For their comfort they are told, the calamities about to come are not to be for ever. The "time" is limited (Da...
Depicting the regular military order of their advance, "One locust not turning a nail's breadth out of his own place in the march" [Jerome]. Compare Pr 30:27, "The locusts have no king, yet go they...
son of Matthat, &c.--(See on Mt 1:13-15). In Lu 3:27, Salathiel is called the son, while in Mt 1:12, he is called the father of Zerubbabel. But they are probably different persons.
threescore and fifteen souls--according to the Septuagint version of Ge 46:27, which Stephen follows, including the five children and grandchildren of Joseph's two sons.
the keeper...awaking...drew...his sword, and would have killed himself, &c.--knowing that his life was forfeited in that case (Ac 12:19; and compare Ac 27:42).
Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat--"took food"; the first full meal since the commencement of the gale. Such courage in desperate circumstances as Paul here showed is...
So when even was come--that is, the reckoning time between masters and laborers (see De 24:15); pointing to the day of final account. the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward--answering to...
in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers--that is, in the elevated and wooded spots where fortified cities could not be placed, he erected castles and towers.
that--so that thou. abundance--floods. Danger by floods is a less frequent image in this book than in the rest of the Old Testament (Job 11:16; 27:20).
Implying Job's knowledge of the fact that the living soul was breathed into man by God (Ge 2:7). "All the while." But Maurer, "As yet all my breath is in me" (notwithstanding my trials): the reason...
These (rain and lightnings) are marvellous and not to be understood (Job 36:29), yet necessary. "For by them He judgeth (chastiseth on the one hand), &c. (and on the other, by them) He giveth meat"...
Literally, "As to the enemy finished are his ruins for ever. Thou [God] hast destroyed," &c. (1Sa 15:3, 7; 27:8, 9). The wicked are utterly undone. Their ruins shall never be repaired.
His emaciated frame, itself an item of his misery, is rendered more so as the object of delighted contemplation to his enemies. The verbs, "look" and "stare," often occur as suggestive of feelings...
eat...my flesh--(Job 19:22; Ps 14:4). The allusion to wild beasts illustrates their rapacity. they stumbled--"they" is emphatic; not I, but they were destroyed.
strength--(Ps 27:1; 28:8). trouble--straits (Ps 9:9; 10:1). In trust and quietness is the salvation of the pious from all foes and all their devices.
shall be blessed--literally, "led aright," or "safely," prospered (Ps 23:3). upon the earth--or land of promise (Ps 25:13; 27:3-9, &c.).
poor and needy--a suffering child of God, as in Ps 10:12, 17;18:27. I am holy--or, "godly," as in Ps 4:3; 85:8.