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John Gill's Exposition on Job 42:17
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So Job died, etc.] As every man does, though he lived so long, and as Methuselah the oldest man did, (<010527>Genesis 5:27); and though a good man, the best of men die as well as others: so Job died, as a good man, in the Lord, in faith and hope of eternal life and happiness; and so he died in all his outward prosperity and happiness, having great substance and a numerous offspring; [being] old; as he might be truly called, being two hundred years of age or thereabout: and full of days; lived out all his days, the full term of life in common, and longer than it was usual for men to live. He had a long life to satisfaction, as is promised, (<199116>Psalm 91:16). He lived as long as he desired to live, was quite satisfied with living; not that he loathed life, as he once did, and in that sense he did, and from such principles and with such views as he then had, (<180715>Job 7:15,16). But he had enough of life, and was willing to die; and came to his grave, as Eliphaz said, “like a shock of corn in his season”, (<180526>Job 5:26). Adrichomius f1609, from certain travellers, speaks of the sepulchre of Job, in the form of a pyramid, in the plains of the land of Uz, to the east of the city Sueta, shown to this day, and had in great honour by Greeks and others; and which is more probable than what some say f1610, that his grave is in Constantinople, where there is a gate called Job’s gate, from thence: but the Job there buried was a general of the Saracens, who died besieging that city with a numerous army, and was there buried, A. D. 675 f1611. There is a fragment at the end of the Septuagint and Arabic versions of this book, said to be translated from a Syriac copy, which gives a very particular account of Job’s descent as, “that he dwelt in the land of Ausitis, on the borders of Idumaea and Arabia; that his name was first Jobab; that he married an Arabian woman, and begot a son, whose name was Ennon; that his father was Zare, a son of the sons of Esau; that his mother was Bosorra (or Bosra); and that he was the fifth from Abraham. And these are the kings that reigned in Edom, which country he reigned over; the first was Balac, the son of Beor, the name of whose city was Dennaba; after Balac, Jobab, called Job; after him Asom, who was governor in the country of Theman; after him Adad, the son of Barad, who cut off Midian in the field of Moab, the name of whose city was Gethaim. The friends that came to him (Job) were Eliphaz, of the sons of Esau, the king of the Themanites; Baldad, king of the Sauchseans; and Sophar, king of the Minaeans.” The substance of this is confirmed by Aristaeus, Philo, and Polyhistor f1612, ancient historians. FOOTNOTES Ft1 -- T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 14. 2. Ft2 -- Ibid. fol. 15. 1. Ft3 -- Moreh Nevochim, par. 3. c. 22. Ft4 -- Prooem. in Job, Quaest. Heb. in Lib. Paralipom. fol. 82. Ft5 -- T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 11. 1. & Sanhedrin, fol. 106. 1. Ft6 -- Hist. Job, p. 61. Ft7 -- In voce iwb. Ft8 -- Onomastic. Sacr. p. 293, 852. Ft9 -- Comment. in Job, i. 1. p. 6. Ft10 -- Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 25. p. 430. Ft11 -- Ut supra. (Moreh Nevochim, par. 3. c. 22.) Ft12 -- T. Hieros. Sotah, fol. 20. 3, 4. T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 15. 2. Ft13 -- T. Hieros. Sotah, fol. 20. 3, 4. T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 15. 2. Bereshit Rabba, sect. 57. fol. 50. 4. Seder Olam Rabba, c. 3. p. 8. Juchasin, fol. 9. 2. Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 7. 1. Ft14 -- Mensal. Colloqu. c. 32. p. 361. Ft15 -- Origen contr. Cels. l. 6. p. 305. Ft…
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