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Ask a QuestionGod of Israel--Those "wondrous works" (Jer 21:2) do not belong to you; God is faithful; it is you who forfeit the privileges of the covenant by unfaithfulness. "God will always remain the God of...
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul--or forfeit his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?--Instead of these weighty words,...
teach thee--Job 6:24 had said, "Teach me." Bildad, therefore, says, "Since you want teaching, inquire of the fathers. They will teach thee." utter words--more than mere speaking; "put forth...
Then said Jesus--"Suffer ye thus far" (Lu 22:51). Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?--This expresses both the feelings which struggled in...
bend...tongues...for lies--that is, with lies as their arrows; they direct lies on their tongue as their bow (Ps 64:3, 4). not valiant for...truth--(Jer 7:28). Maurer translates, "They do not...
John answered, &c.--The link of connection here with the foregoing context lies in the words "in My name" (Lu 9:48). "Oh, as to that," said John, young, warm, but not sufficiently apprehending...
The believer's expectation shall not be disappointed; the end of his trials, and of the sinner's prosperity, is at hand.
(Compare Margin). The prosperity of the wicked is short.Then shall ye...discern--Then shall ye see the falseness of your calumny against God's government (Mal 3:15), that the "proud" and wicked prosper. Do not judge before the time till My work is...
bear--patiently. the indignation of the Lord--His punishment inflicted on me (La 3:39). The true penitent "accepts the punishment of his iniquity" (Le 26:41, 43); they who murmur against God, do...
The thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth chapters form one prophecy, the former part of which denounces God's judgment against His people's enemies, of whom Edom is the representative; the second part,...
A false testimony is dangerous in every thing.
A false witness is as destructive to reputation, as such weapons to the body (Pr 24:28). beareth...witness--literally, "answereth questions," as...For--Not but that I might glory as to "myself" (2Co 12:5); "FOR if I should desire to glory, I shall not be a fool"; for I have things to glory, or boast of which are good matter for glorying of...
I know--Moab's "proud arrogancy" (Jer 48:29) or "wrath," against My people, is not unknown to Me. it shall not be so--The result shall not be so as he thinks: his lies shall not so effect what he...
God do so to me, and more also--the common form of introducing a solemn oath. if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life--Whether there was a treasonable design to conceal under...
Raised from the dead, he shall die no more; death hath no more dominion over him. Thou wilt show me--guide me to attain. the path of life--or, "lives"--the plural denoting variety and...
And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban--literally, "was not the same as yesterday, and the day before," a common Oriental form of speech. The insinuations against Jacob's fidelity by Laban's...
hope in...end--All thy calamities shall have a prosperous issue.
I have sworn--I, too have made a vow which I will fulfil. Since ye will not hear Me speaking and warning, hear Me swearing. by my great name--that is, by Myself (Ge 22:16), the greatest by whom God...
candle--or, "prosperity"; it shall come to an end (Pr 13:9; 20:20).
look for--rather, "because his goods," that is, prosperity shall have no endurance.
not in their hand--but in the hand of God. This is Job's difficulty, that God who has sinners prosperity (good) in His hand should allow them to have it. is--rather, "may the counsel of the wicked...
their reproach--their reproachful language against me.
Sin dispirits men, it hides from their eyes the things that belong to their peace. The Israelites blamed Samson for what he had done against the Philistines, as if he had done them a great...
For--Reason why they should regard him "beseeching" them (2Co 10:2) not to oblige him to have recourse to "bold" and stern exercise of authority. "We walk IN the flesh," and so in weakness: but not...
Rather, "Only in Jehovah shall men say of me (this clause is parenthetical), is there righteousness" (which includes salvation, Isa45:21, "a just God and a Saviour," Isa 46:13), &c. [Maurer]. ...
abide for me--separate from intercourse with any other man, and remaining for me who have redeemed thee (compare De 21:13). so will I also be for thee--remain for thee, not taking any other...
But take heed to yourselves: for--"before all these things" (Lu21:12); that is, before these public calamities come. they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten...
iron...brass--namely, weapons.
gather together, &c.--that is, If it should happen that enemies "gather together" against thee (Ps 2:2), they will not have been sent by Me (compare Ho 8:4) as instruments of My wrath (nay, it will...
weapons of his indignation--the Medes and Persians (Isa 13:5).