Job 2
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Job 2:9-13 . JOB REPROVES HIS WIFE.
9. curse God--rather, "renounce" God. [UMBREIT]. However, it was usual among the heathens, when disappointed in their prayers accompanied with offerings to their gods, to reproach and curse them.
and die--that is, take thy farewell of God and so die. For no good is to be got out of religion, either here or hereafter; or, at least, not in this life [GILL]; Nothing makes the ungodly so angry as to see the godly under trial not angry.
10. the foolish women--Sin and folly are allied in Scripture ( 1 Samuel 25:25 , 2 Samuel 13:13 , Psalms 14:1 ).
receive evil--bear willingly ( Lamentations 3:39 ).
11. Eliphaz--The view of RAWLINSON that "the names of Job's three friends represent the Chaldean times, about 700 B.C.," cannot be accepted. Eliphaz is an Idumean name, Esau's oldest son ( Genesis 36:4 ); and Teman, son of Eliphaz ( Genesis 36:15 ), called "duke." EUSEBIUS places Teman in Arabia-Petræa (but "at the right hand"; and then the south, namely, part of Idumea; capital of Edom ( Amos 1:12 ). Hebrew geographers faced the east, not the north as we do; hence with them "the right hand" was the south. Temanites were famed for wisdom ( Jeremiah 49:7 ). BARUCH mentions them as "authors of fables" (namely, proverbs embodying the results of observation), and "searchers out of understanding."
Bildad the Shuhite--Shuah ("a pit"), son of Abraham and Keturah ( Genesis 25:2 ). PTOLEMY mentions the region Syccea, in Arabia-Deserta, east of Batanea.
Zophar the Naamathite--not of the Naamans in Judah ( Joshua 15:41 ), which was too distant; but some region in Arabia-Deserta. FRETELIUS says there was a Naamath in Uz.
12. toward heaven--They threw ashes violently upwards, that they might fall on their heads and cover them--the deepest mourning ( Joshua 7:6 , Acts 22:23 ).
13. seven days . . . nights--They did not remain in the same posture and without food, &c., all this time, but for most of this period daily and nightly. Sitting on the earth marked mourning ( Lamentations 2:10 ). Seven days was the usual length of it ( Genesis 50:10 , 1 Samuel 31:13 ). This silence may have been due to a rising suspicion of evil in Job; but chiefly because it is only ordinary griefs that find vent in language; extraordinary griefs are too great for utterance.