Job 42

Job 42:1

Naked - Those whom they stripped of their garments and coverings.

Job 42:2

Wet - With the rain - water, which runs down the rocks or mountains into the caves, to which they fled for shelter. Rock - Are glad when they can find a cleft of a rock in which they may have some protection against the weather.

Job 42:3

They - The oppressors. Pluck - Out of covetousness; they will not allow the mother time for the suckling of her infant.

Job 42:4

The sheaf - That single sheaf which the poor man had got with the sweat of his brow to satisfy his hunger.

Job 42:5

Walls - Within the walls of the oppressors for their use. Suffer - Because they are not permitted to quench their thirst out of the wine which they make.

Job 42:6

Groan - Under grievous oppressions. Soul - The life or blood of those who are wounded to death, as this word properly signifies, crieth aloud to God for vengeance. Yet - Yet God doth not punish them.

Job 42:7

Light - As well the light of reason and conscience, as the light of Divine revelation, which was then in good measure imparted to the people of God, and shortly after committed to writing. Know not - They do not approve, nor love, or chuse them.

Job 42:8

Poor - Where he finds nothing to satisfy his covetousness, he exercises his cruelty.

Job 42:10

They - The robber: having on that occasion inserted the mention of the adulterer as one who acted his sin in the same manner as the night - thief did, he now returns to him again.

Job 42:11

Is - Terrible and hateful.

Job 42:12

Swift - That is, he quickly passeth away with all his glory, as the waters which never stay in one place, but are always hasting away. Portion - His habitation and estate which he left behind him. He - He shall never more see or enjoy his vineyards, or other pleasant places and things, which seem to be comprehended under this particular.

Job 42:14

Womb - His mother that bare him in her womb. Wickedness - The wicked man. Broken - Broken to pieces, or violently broken down, as the word signifies. Tree - Which being once broken down never grows again.

Job 42:15

He - He here returns to the declaration of his farther wickednesses, the cause of these judgments. Barren - Barrenness was esteemed a curse and reproach; and so he added affliction to the afflicted.

Job 42:16

Draweth - Into his net.

Job 42:17

Yet - Yet his eyes are upon their ways: although God gives them such strange successes, yet he sees and observes them all, and will in due time punish them.