Teks -- Job 2:3 (NET)

2:3 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.”

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Wesley: Job 2:3 - Still

Notwithstanding all his afflictions, and thy suggestion to the contrary.

Wesley: Job 2:3 - Movedst

This, as the rest of this representation, is not to be understood literally: But the design is to signify both the devil's restless malice in promoting man's misery and God's permission of it for wise and holy ends.

JFB: Job 2:3 - integrity

Literally, "completeness"; so "perfect," another form of the same Hebrew word, Job 11:7.

JFB: Job 2:3 - movedst . . . against

So 1Sa 26:19; compare 1Ch 21:1 with 2Sa 24:1.

Clarke: Job 2:3 - To destroy him without cause

To destroy him without cause - Thou wishedst me to permit thee to destroy a man whose sins have not called for so heavy a judgment. This seems to be the meaning of this saying. The original word, לבלעו leballeo , signifies to swallow down or devour; and this word St. Peter had no doubt in view in the place quoted on Job 2:7 of the preceding chapter: "Your adversary the devil goeth about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may Devour; ζητων, τινα καταπιῃ, seeking whom he may Swallow or Gulp Down. See the note on 1Pe 5:8.

TSK: Job 2:3 - Hast thou // an upright // holdeth // thou movedst // destroy him // without

Hast thou : Job 1:1, Job 1:8, Job 9:20; Gen 6:9; Psa 37:37; Phi 3:12; 1Pe 5:10

an upright : Pro 11:8, Pro 13:6, Pro 14:2, Pro 15:8, Pro 16:17

holdeth : Job 1:21, Job 1:22, Job 13:15, Job 27:5, Job 27:6; Psa 26:1, Psa 41:12; Jam 1:12; 1Pe 1:7

thou movedst : Job 1:11

destroy him : Heb. swallow him up, 2Sa 20:20

without : Job 9:17; Joh 9:3

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Poole: Job 2:3 - Still // Thou movedst me // Without cause

Still notwithstanding all his trials and tribulations, and thy malicious suggestion to the contrary, he holdeth fast his integrity, i.e. he continues to be the same perfect and upright man which he was before. All thy endeavours to pull away his integrity have made him only to hold it the faster.

Thou movedst me i.e. didst persuade me, and prevailed with me to do it. But this, as the rest of this representation, is not to be understood properly, as if God could be moved by any of his creatures to alter his purposes, which are all eternal and unchangeable, and especially by Satan, as if God would gratify him by granting his desires; but the design of these words is to signify, both the devil’ s restless malice in promoting man’ s misery, and God’ s permission of it for his own wise and holy ends.

Without cause i.e. without any special provocation, whereby he, more than others, deserved such heavy punishments; which also Job himself oft allegeth for his justification, although he doth not deny himself to be a sinner, as is apparent from Job 7:20,21 9:2 13:23,26 ; nor that sin deserves judgments. Or, without any such cause as thou didst allege, which was his hypocrisy. Or, in vain , as this word is used, Pro 1:17 Eze 6:10 , and elsewhere. So it is not referred to God’ s destroying him, but to Satan’ s moving God so to do. And so this place may be thus rendered exactly according to the Hebrew, and thou hast moved me to destroy him in vain, or without effect, or to no purpose, i.e. thou hast lost thy design and expectation therein, which was to take away his integrity, which in spite of all thy art and malice he still holdeth fast.

PBC: Job 2:3

See WebbSr: COMMENT ON JOB 2:3

Haydock: Job 2:3 - Simple // Without cause

Simple. Plain-dealing, mild, and without guile. (St. Gregory) (Worthington) ---

Without cause. This may form a new sentence. (Haydock) ---

Thy proposal and attempts are vain. (Calmet) ---

Job has not deserved this treatment. (St. Chrysostom, &c.)

Gill: Job 2:3 - And the Lord said unto Satan, hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil // and still he holdeth fast his integrity // although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause

And the Lord said unto Satan, hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?.... The same with this is also before put unto Satan, and the same character given of Job, which is here continued and confirmed, with an addition to it; for Job was no loser, but a gainer in his character by his afflictions and trials:

and still he holdeth fast his integrity. The first man Adam was made upright, but by sinning he lost his integrity, and since the fall there is none in man naturally; it is only to be found in regenerate and renewed persons, who have right spirits renewed in them; by which principle of grace wrought in them they become upright in heart, and walk uprightly. The word used signifies "perfection" ^o, which Job had not in himself, but in Christ; though it may denote the truth and sincerity of his grace, and the uprightness of his walk, and the simplicity of his conversation, the bias of his mind, and the tenor of his conduct and behaviour towards God and men; this principle he retained, this frame and disposition of soul continued with him, and he acted up to it in all things; he held fast his faith and confidence in the Lord his God, and he professed his cordial love and sincere affection for God, and his filial fear and reverence of him; and this he did still, notwithstanding all the assaults and temptations of Satan, and all the sore afflictions and trials he met with; an instance this of persevering grace, and of the truth of what Job after expresses, Job 17:9; and this he did, even says the Lord to Satan:

although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause; not that Satan could work upon God as he does upon men, both good and bad, especially the latter; nor could he so work upon him as to cause him to change his mind and will, who is unchangeable in his nature and purposes; but the sense is, he made a motion to him, he proposed it, requested and entreated, and did not barely propose it, but urged it with importunity, was very solicitous to have it done; and he prevailed and succeeded according to God's own determinate counsel and will, though only in part; for he moved him to "destroy him", himself, his body, if not his soul; for this roaring lion seeks to devour men, even the sheep and lambs of Christ's flock: or "to swallow him up" ^p, as the word signifies; that he might be delivered to him, who would make but one morsel of him, swallow him up alive, as a lion any creature, or any other beast of prey. Mr. Broughton renders it, "to undo him"; and we say of a man, when he has lost his substance, that he is undone; and in this sense Job was destroyed or undone, for he had lost his all: and this motion was made "without cause", there was no just reason for it; what Satan suggested, and the calumny he cast upon Job, was not supported by him, he could give no proof nor evidence of it; and it was in the issue and event "in vain", as the word ^q may be rendered; for he did not appear, notwithstanding all that was done to him, to be the man Satan said he was, nor to do the things, or say the words, Satan said he would.