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Job 1

Job 1 — Overview

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

, The holiness, riches, and religious care of Job for his children; , Satan, appearing before God, by calumniation obtains leave to afflict Job; , Understanding of the loss of his children and goods, in his mourning he blesses God.

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Job 1 — OverviewJob 1 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe history of Job begins here with an account, I. Of his great piety in general (ver. 1), and in a particular instance, ver. 5. II. Of his great prosperity, ver. 2-4. III. Of the malice of Satan against him,…Job 1 — OverviewJob 1 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis book, in the Hebrew copies, generally goes by this name, from Job, who is however the subject, if not the writer of it. In the Vulgate Latin version it is called "the Book of Job"; in the Syriac version, the…Job 1:1-3Job 1:1-3 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleConcerning Job we are here told, I. That he was a man; therefore subject to like passions as we are. He was Ish, a worthy man, a man of note and eminency, a magistrate, a man in authority. The country he lived in…Job 1:1Job 1:1 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeUz: Genesis 10:23, Genesis 22:20-21, Huz, Genesis 36:28; 1 Chronicles 1:17, 1 Chronicles 1:42; Jeremiah 25:20; Lamentations 4:21 Job: Ezekiel 14:14, Ezekiel 14:20; James 5:11 perfect: Job 1:8, Job 2:3, Job 23:11-12,…Job 1:1Job 1:1 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Biblebut neither of them seems to be the seat of this man and his posterity, who, in all probability, settled in Syria: his second son Hul, whom Josephus calls Ulus, according to him, founded Armenia; which notion may be…Job 1:1Job 1:1 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bibleand from whom sprung the Ausitae of Ptolemy , who dwelt near Babylon and by the Euphrates. The latter, was the father of the Buzites, of which family Elihu was, that interposed between Job and his friends