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John Gill's Exposition on Job 16:12
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder, etc.] He was in easy and affluent circumstances, abounding with the good things of this life, lay in his nest, as his expression is, (<182918>Job 29:18); quietly and peaceably, where he expected he should have died; and he was easy in his mind, had peace of conscience, being a good man that feared God, and trusted in his living Redeemer, enjoying the presence of God, the light of his countenance, and the discoveries of his love, (see <183902>Job 39:2-5); but now he was broken to pieces, he was stripped of his worldly substance; his family was broken up, and not a child left him; his body broken, and full of ruptures through boils and ulcers; and his spirits were broken with his afflictions, and a sense of divine displeasure; the arrows of God’s wrath, in his apprehension, stuck in him, and the poison thereof drank up his spirits. Mr. Broughton renders it, “I was wealthy, [and] he hath undone me”; though once so opulent, he was now broken, and become a bankrupt. It may be applied to Christ, his antitype, who, though rich, became poor to make his people rich, (<470809>2 Corinthians 8:9); and whose body was broken for them; and he was wounded and bruised for their transgressions, and whose heart was broken with reproach: he hath also taken me by the neck, and shaken me to pieces; as a combatant in wrestling, who is stronger than his antagonist, uses him; or as a giant, who takes a dwarf by his neck or collar, and shakes him, as if he would shake him to pieces, limb from limb; or “hath dashed” or “broken me to pieces” f660; or to shivers; as glass or earthen vessels dashed against a wall, or struck with a hammer, fly into a thousand pieces, can never be put together again; so Job reckoned of his state and condition as irrecoverable, that his health, his substance, his family, could never be restored as they had been: and set me up for his mark; to shoot at, of which he complains (<180720>Job 7:20); a like expression is used by the church in (<250312>Lamentations 3:12,13); and a phrase similar to this is used of Christ, (<420234>Luke 2:34); and in consequence of this are what follow.
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