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John Gill's Exposition on Job 5:15
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But he saveth the poor, etc.] Who are so in a literal sense, and whom the Lord saves with a temporal salvation; these being the butt of the crafty, wise, and cunning, on whom their eyes are, for whom they lay snares, and lie in wait to draw them in; and these being helpless and without friends, God takes notice of them, appears for them, and arises for their help, and saves them: from the sword; of their enemies, drawn against them and ready to be sheathed in them: from their mouth; from their reproaches, calumnies, detraction, and evil speaking; or “from the sword, their mouth” f210, as some; or “from the sword of their mouth” f211, as others; or which comes out of it; whose mouths and tongues are as sharp swords, which destroy their credit and reputation, and threaten them with ruin; the Targum is, “from the slaughter of their mouth:” and from the hand of the mighty; their mighty enemies, that, are mightier than they; the Targum is, “from the hand of a mighty king;” such an one as Pharaoh, which the same paraphrase makes mention of in (<180514>Job 5:14), and from whom the poor Israelites were delivered: this may be applied to the poor in a spiritual sense, who are poor in spirit, and are sensible of their spiritual poverty, whom the Lord looks unto, has a regard for, and saves them from “the sword” of avenging justice; that being awaked against the man, his fellow, and so warded off from them, and from the mouth of a cursing and condemning law, and from Satan the accuser of the brethren; and of wicked men, whose tongue rising up in judgment against them, he condemns; and from the “hand” of Satan the strong man armed, and who is stronger than they; and of all their spiritual enemies.
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