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Selected Verse: Job 31:30 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Job 31:30 |
King James |
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
mouth--literally, "palate." (See on Job 6:30).
wishing--literally, "so as to demand his (my enemy's) soul," that is, "life by a curse." This verse parenthetically confirms Job 31:30. Job in the patriarchal age of the promise, anterior to the law, realizes the Gospel spirit, which was the end of the law (compare Lev 19:18; Deu 23:6, with Mat 5:43-44). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Neither have I suffered my mouth - Margin, as in Hebrew, palate. The word is often used for the mouth in general, and especially as the organ of the voice from the use and importance of the palate in speaking. Pro 8:7. "For my palate (חכי chikiy) speaketh truth." It is used as the organ of taste, Job 12:11; compare Job 6:30; Psa 119:103.
By wishing a curse to his soul - It must have been an extraordinary degree of piety which would permit a man to say this with truth, that he had never harbored a wish of injury to an enemy. Few are the people, probably, even now, who could say this, and who are enabled to keep their minds free from every wish that calamities and woes may overtake those who are seeking their hurt. Yet this is the nature of true religion. It controls the heart, represses the angry and revengeful feelings, and creates in the soul an earnest desire for the happiness even of those who injure us. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin - I have neither spoken evil of him, nor wished evil to him. How few of those called Christians can speak thus concerning their enemies; or those who have done them any mischief! |
43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.