Bible Commentaries

Job 28:16 — in four different words. Jerome on Jeremiah 10:1-25 observeth that the Hebrew have seven different words for gold; and five different sorts are here instanced. That here mentioned is a special name for the most resplendent and glistering gold, Psalms 45:9 Daniel 10:5 Song of Solomon 5:11 . Of it comes Michtam of David, or David’s golden psalm, Psalms 16:1 , his ingot of gold. Broughton thinks it to be no Hebrew word, but the name of gold in Ophir; Obrizium dictum volunt, quasi Ophirizium. Ophir

Job 31:14 — What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? What then shall I do when God riseth up, … — Job considered that he had a Master in heaven, Colossians 4:1 ; that there is one higher than the highest, Ecclesiastes 5:8 , with whom there is no respect of persons, but whereever any deal proudly, God is above them, Exodus 18:11 . These and the like humbling considerations, and not any placability or natural

Job 40:4 — confession, but not full enough: his meanness he acknowledgeth, and that he was no fit match for God; but not his sinfulness, with desire of pardon and deprecation of punishment; God therefore gives him not over so, but sets upon him a second time, Job 40:6 , and brings him to it, Job 42:1 . There must be some proportion between a man’s sin and his repentance, Ezra 9:1-15 , and this God will bring all his Jobs to ere he leave them. What shall I answer thee? — I am silenced, and set down;

Proverbs 1:7 — point The head or firstfruits; the head and height. of wisdom, as the word here signified; yea, wisdom itself. Job 28:28 This Solomon had learned by the instruction of his father, as it is in the next verse, who had taught it him of a child, Proverbs 4:4 Psalms 111:10 and therefore sets it here in the beginning of his works as the beginning of all. As in the end he makes it the end of all, Ecclesiastes 12:13 yea, the all of man, Hoc est enim totus homo. without which he counts him not a complete man,

Proverbs 11:23 — honestly." Hebrews 13:18 Evil motions haunt his mind otherwhiles, but there they inhabit not. Lust was a stranger to David, as Peter Martyr observes out of Nathan’s parable; - "There came a traveller to this rich man." 2 Samuel 12:4 The main stream of his desires, the course and current of his heart ran upon God and godliness. Psalms 119:4-5 ; Psalms 39:1 ; Psalms 39:3 He resolved to do better than he did. "The spirit ever lusteth against the flesh"; howbeit when the

Proverbs 13:22 — child. — Personal goodness is profitable to posterity. God gives not to his servants some small annuity for life only, as great men used to do; but "keepeth mercy for thousands" of generations "of them that fear him" Exodus 34:7 - (where the Masorites observe Nun-Rabbath , a large N , in the word Notsot , "keepeth," to note the large extent of God’s love to the good man’s posterity.) God left David "a lamp in Jerusalem," 1 Kings 15:4 although

Ecclesiastes 4:9 — Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. Two are better than one. — Friendly society is far beyond that wretched "aloneness" of the covetous wretch; Ecclesiastes 4:8 he "joins house to house and land to land, that he may live alone in the midst of the earth." Isaiah 5:8 “Quin sine rivali, seque et sua solus amato.” - Horat. Let him enjoy his moping solitariness, if he can. "It is not

Ecclesiastes 7:29 — poetic fictions and fabulous relations, whereof there is neither proof nor profit. The Vulgate Latin hath it, Et ipse se infinitis miscuit quaestionibus; And he hath entangled himself with numberless questions and fruitless speculations. See 1 Timothy 1:4 ; 1 Timothy 6:4 , "doting about questions," or question sick. Bernard reads it thus, Ipse autem se implicuit doloribus multis, but he hath involved himself in many troubles, the fruit of his inventions, shifts, and shirking tricks. see Jeremiah

Isaiah 12:1 — Deus, in another’s - i.e., Praised be God, praised be God. The saints here "with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 15:6 The saints and angels do so in heaven incessantly, Revelation 4:10-11 hoc est iuge eorum negotiosum otium et otiosum negotium. Thine anger is turned away. — My sins are forgiven me, and hence I am of so good cheer, though otherwise distressed. Feri, Domine, feri; a peccatis absolutus sum, said Luther; Strike

Isaiah 20:2 — — Heb., By the hand of Isaiah, whom God used as a dispenser of this precious treasure. Go, loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, — i.e., Thy thick rough garment, Vestimentum vilosum. such as prophets usually wore. 2 Kings 1:8 Zechariah 13:4 Matthew 3:4 Or else thy sackcloth put on as a mourning weed, either for ten tribes lately carried captive, or else for the miseries ready to fall shortly upon thine own people. And put off thy shoe from thy foot. — The Nudipedales in Moravia might

Isaiah 25:1 — [and] truth. O Lord, thou art my God. — Sunt verba fidelium in regno Christi, saith Piscator. These are the words of the subjects of Christ’s kingdom, who in the end of the former chapter are called his ancients or elders. See Revelation 4:4 . But that of Oecolampadius I like better: More suo in iubilum et hymnum erumpit propheta. The prophet, as his manner is, breaketh forth into a joyful jubilation; and being ravished, and as it were rapt beyond himself with the consideration of such

Isaiah 3:11 — ουαι ουαι ; woe and alas for evermore! And when thou art making, saith one, a covenant with sin, say to thy soul, as Boaz said to his kinsman, "At what time thou buyest it, thou must have Ruth with it." Ruth 4:4 If thou wilt have the pleasure of sin, the ways of wickedness, thou must also have the vengeance and wrath of God with it, and let thy soul answer as he here doth: No, I may not do it; I shall mar and spoil a better inheritance; I shall inherit a

Isaiah 30:18 — will lay cordials upon full and foul stomachs, saith another grave divine; Dr Harris. that he will scarf thy bones before they be set, and lap up thy sores before they be searched. God chooseth the fittest times to hear and help his suppliants, Isaiah 49:8 Psalms 69:13 opportunitatem opitulandi expectat. Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. James 5:7 Let your equanimity, your longanimity, patience be known to all men; the Lord is at hand. Philippians 4:5 And therefore will

Isaiah 40:2 — Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins. Speak ye comfortably. — Speak to the heart, as Genesis 34:3 Hosea 2:14 . Cheer her up, speak to her with utmost earnestness, that your words may work upon her and stick-by her; do it solidly, not frigidly. That her warfare is accomplished. — Militiam, not malitiam, as the Vulgate hath it; the word signifieth

Ezekiel 46:9 — backward. (2.) To "make straight paths for our feet"; Hebrews 12:13 not looking back with Lot’s wife; Luke 17:32 not longing for the onions of Egypt, as those rebels in the wilderness, but advancing forward with St Paul, Philippians 3:13-14 looking forthright, Proverbs 4:25 having our eye upon the mark, and making daily progress toward perfection; (3.) That our memories are frail, and here we shall meet with many things that will withdraw us from thinking upon God; (4.) That our life is

Ezekiel 7:19 — Abite hinc, abite longe, - Away from me, away, away. Their gold shall be removed. — Shall be for a dunghill, saith the Vulgate; it shall be esteemed, as it is, the guts and garbage of the earth. Their silver and their gold. — See Proverbs 11:4 Zephaniah 1:18 Ecclesiastes 5:8 , See Trapp on " Proverbs 11:4 " See Trapp on " Zephaniah 1:18 " See Trapp on " Ecclesiastes 5:8 " They shall not satisfy Plato in Cratylo scribit Tantalum dictum esse quas παλαντατον

Ezekiel 9:3 — being "the brightness of his Father’s glory, the express image of his person." Hebrews 1:3 Was gone up from the cherub, — i.e., From those four cherubims upon which the glory of the Lord did then appear to the prophet. Ezekiel 8:4 He was gone from his ark, to show that the refractory Jews were now discovenanted; and from his mercy seat, to show that he would show them no more mercy. Many moves God makes in this and the two following chapters to show his loathness utterly to move;

Hosea 10:7 — (whereof this prophet is full). Her king (not her idols, as some sense it), though gotten into Samaria, a strong city, so well victualled and fortified as to hold out a siege of three years’ continuance, yet shall be cut off, or silenced, as Hosea 4:7 , "as the foam upon the waters," bulla evanida, more weak than water, whereof it ariseth, and whereby it is wherried away, and cannot resist; or, as a bubble blown up by every small wind, and as easily blown out again; it no sooner appears

Joel 3:11 — as at Armageddon, Revelation 16:16 . Come on, therefore, since you will needs be so mad, and take what befalls you. "Who would set the briars and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together," Isaiah 27:4 ; see Zechariah 14:2-3 Ezekiel 38:4 ; Ezekiel 38:16-23 Revelation 19:17-18 . See Trapp on " Zechariah 14:2 " See Trapp on " Zechariah 14:3 " The word hero Englished assemble is by Jarchi rendered festinate, hasten; by others conglobamini,

Joel 3:6 — the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. The children also of Judah, and the children of Jerusalem — "The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold," Lamentations 4:2 , with whom you were anciently confederate in the days of Solomon, 1 Kings 4:25 , and seemed to be then their prosperity proselytes. Have ye sold unto the Grecians — That is, to the Gentiles in general, for so St Paul often useth the word Grecians,