Job 1

Job 1:1

Uz] Uz in Idumea, or Arabia bordering upon it. So called from Uz the sonne of Dishan, of the linage of Seir, Gen. XXXVI. 28. Of this we read, Lam. IV. 21. Jer. XXV. 20. Or in that part of Arabia the Desert, near to Chaldea, where Job had such bad neighbours, the Chaldeans on the one side, and the Sabeans on the other, chap. I. 15. 17. We read of Kings of the Land of Uz, Jer. XXV. 20. And of Uz, the grandchilde of Shem, Gen. X. 22, 23. And of Vz, the sonne of Nahor, Abrahams brother, Gen. XXII. 21.

Job 1:3

three thousand Camels] When God blessed his latter end, he had six thousand Camels, chap. XLII. 12. a wondrous number for one man. They were numerous, and of much use, in the Eastern Countries. Fifty thousand taken from the Hagarites, 1 Chron. V. 20, 21. The Midianites used very great multitudes of them in warre; and put ornaments, and chains of gold about their necks, Judg. VII. 12. and chap. VIII. 21, 26. Some of them were swift; all, for burden, with bunches on their backs, fit for that purpose; but not fit to go through the eye of a needle. David himself had a special officer, only over his Camels, 1 Chron. XXVII. 30.

East] Whither Abraham sent his sonnes, Gen. XXV. 6.

Job 1:5

and sanctified them] Sent to them, requiring them to fit and prepare themselves, by all means, in an holy maner, to come and joyne with him in offering a sacrifice for them, and their sinnes. See Num. X 1. 18. Exod. XIX. 10. Josh. III. 5. and chap. VII. 13. 2 Chron. XXIX. 5.

continualy] On those dayes when their feasting was gone about.

Job 1:6

the sonnes of God] The good Angels, Job XXXVIII. 7.

to present themselves] See 1 Kings XXII. 19. This is spoken after the maner of men, as Rom. III. 5.

among them] Not that Satan comes into Heaven. The similitude is taken from earthly Kings.

Job 1:15

escaped alone] Satan spared him, that by him Job might quickly hear it.

Job 1:19

winde] a great whirlwinde.

young men] And daughters also. Satan by his Commission might have taken away his wife also, as well as his children; But he left her to vex him.

Job 1:20

shaved his head] Did it himself, or by some other.

Job 1:21

thither] Into the womb of our common mother the earth; whereon he fell, ver. 20.

Job 1:22

sinned not] Contrary to that of Satan. He blesseth, ver. 21. not curseth, as Satan said, ver. 11.