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Selected Verse: Job 1:10 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 1:10 |
Strong Concordance |
Hast not thou made an hedge [07753] about him, and about [01157] his house [01004], and about all that he hath on every side [05439]? thou hast blessed [01288] the work [04639] of his hands [03027], and his substance [04735] is increased [06555] in the land [0776]. |
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King James |
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. |
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] |
| his substance is increased--literally, "spread out like a flood"; Job's herds covered the face of the country. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Hast thou not made an hedge about him? - Dr. Good remarks, that to give the original word here its full force, it should be derived from the science of engineering, and be rendered, "Hast thou not raised a "palisado" about him?" The Hebrew word used here (שׂוּך śûk) properly means "to hedge"; to hedge in or about; and hence, to protect, as one is defended whose house or farm is hedged in either with a fence of thorns, or with an enclosure of stakes or palisades. The word in its various forms is used to denote, as a noun, "pricks in the eyes" Num 33:55; that is, that which would be like thorns; "barbed irons" Job 41:7, that is, the barbed iron used as a spear to take fish; and a hedge, and thorn hedge, Mic 7:4; Pro 15:19; Isa 5:5. The idea here is, that of making an enclosure around Job and his possessions to guard them from danger. The Septuagint renders it περιέφραξας periephracas, to make a defense around," to "circumvallate" or inclose, as a camp is in war. In the Syriac and Arabic it is rendered, "Hast thou not protected him with thy hand? The Chaldee, "Hast thou protected him with thy word? The Septuagint renders the whole passage, "Hast thou not encircled the things which are without him" (τὰ ἔξω αὐτοῦ ta exō autou) that is, the things abroad which belong to him, "and the things within his house." The sense of the whole passage is, that he was eminently under the divine protection, and that God had kept himself, his family, and property from plunderers, and that therefore he served and feared him.
Thou hast blessed the work of his hands - Thou hast greatly prospered him.
And his substance is increased in the land - His property, Job 1:3. Margin, "cattle." The word "increased" here by no means expresses the force of the original. The word פרץ pârats means properly to break, to rend, then to break or burst forth as waters do that have been pent up; Sa2 5:20, compare Pro 3:10, "So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses "shall burst out" פרץ pârats with new wine;" that is, thy wine-fats shall be so full that they shall overflow, or "burst" the barriers, and the wine shall flow out in abundance. The Arabians, according to Schultens, employ this word still to denote the mouth or "embouchure" - the most; rapid part of a stream. So Golius, in proof of this, quotes from the Arabic writer Gjanhari, a couplet where the word is used to denote the mouth of the Euphrates:
"His rushing wealth o'er flowed him with its heaps;
So at its mouth the mad Euphrates sweeps."
According to Sehultens, the word denotes a place where a river bursts forth, and makes a new way by rending the hills and rocks asunder. In like manner the flocks and herds of Job had burst, as it were, every barrier, and had spread like an inundation over the land; compare Gen 30:43; Ch2 31:5; Exo 1:7; Job 16:14. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Hast not thou made a hedge about him - Thou hast fortified him with spikes and spears. Thou hast defended him as by an unapproachable hedge. He is an object of thy peculiar care; and is not exposed to the common trials of life. |
14 He breaketh [06555] me with breach [06556] upon [06440] breach [06556], he runneth [07323] upon me like a giant [01368].
7 And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] were fruitful [06509], and increased abundantly [08317], and multiplied [07235], and waxed exceeding [03966] [03966] mighty [06105]; and the land [0776] was filled [04390] with them.
5 And as soon as the commandment [01697] came abroad [06555], the children [01121] of Israel [03478] brought [0935] in abundance [07235] the firstfruits [07225] of corn [01715], wine [08492], and oil [03323], and honey [01706], and of all the increase [08393] of the field [07704]; and the tithe [04643] of all things brought [0935] they in abundantly [07230].
43 And the man [0376] increased [06555] exceedingly [03966] [03966], and had much [07227] cattle [06629], and maidservants [08198], and menservants [05650], and camels [01581], and asses [02543].
10 So shall thy barns [0618] be filled [04390] with plenty [07647], and thy presses [03342] shall burst out [06555] with new wine [08492].
20 And David [01732] came [0935] to Baalperazim [01188], and David [01732] smote [05221] them there, and said [0559], The LORD [03068] hath broken forth [06555] upon mine enemies [0341] before [06440] me, as the breach [06556] of waters [04325]. Therefore he called [07121] the name [08034] of that place [04725] Baalperazim [01188].
3 His substance [04735] also was seven [07651] thousand [0505] sheep [06629], and three [07969] thousand [0505] camels [01581], and five [02568] hundred [03967] yoke [06776] of oxen [01241], and five [02568] hundred [03967] she asses [0860], and a very [03966] great [07227] household [05657]; so that this man [0376] was the greatest [01419] of all the men [01121] of the east [06924].
5 And now go to; I will tell [03045] you what I will do [06213] to my vineyard [03754]: I will take away [05493] the hedge [04881] thereof, and it shall be eaten up [01197]; and break down [06555] the wall [01447] thereof, and it shall be trodden down [04823]:
19 The way [01870] of the slothful [06102] man is as an hedge [04881] of thorns [02312]: but the way [0734] of the righteous [03477] is made plain [05549].
4 The best [02896] of them is as a brier [02312]: the most upright [03477] is sharper than a thorn hedge [04534]: the day [03117] of thy watchmen [06822] and thy visitation [06486] cometh [0935]; now shall be their perplexity [03998].
7 Canst thou fill [04390] his skin [05785] with barbed irons [07905]? or his head [07218] with fish [01709] spears [06767]?
55 But if ye will not drive out [03423] the inhabitants [03427] of the land [0776] from before [06440] you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain [03498] of them shall be pricks [07899] in your eyes [05869], and thorns [06796] in your sides [06654], and shall vex [06887] you in the land [0776] wherein ye dwell [03427].