Job 29:1-25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Bible Study & Commentary

Verses 1-25

Job 29. Job’ s Former Happy Days.

Job 29:1-Joshua :. Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God’ s favour. In Job 29:4 “ secret” means intimacy ( cf. Psalms 25:14).

Job 29:7-2 Samuel : . Job describes the reverence done to him by not only the young, but even the aged and the honourable. The gate of the city is the place of assembly, the “ counsel-house.” Job lives on his country estate, but goes into the city to give counsel.

Job 29:21-Lamentations : should probably now follow (Budde, Peake). These verses continue the subject of Job 29:7-2 Samuel :. In Job 29:22 “ dropped” means dropped as rain ( Job 29:23). In Job 29:24 a mg. yields a better sense than text. Budde reads “ I laughed on them and they were confident.” In Job 29:25, “ their way” probably means “ their course of action.” Job means that he chose out their fine of action in the counsel.

Job 29:11-Esther : . This follows well upon Job 29:25. In this beautiful passage Job classifies himself as a helper of the helpless. In Job 29:11 “ blessed me” means called me happy, i.e. because of his good life which must bring prosperity; the eye’ s witness means that it saw what Job was doing and testified his praise. In Job 29:14 a “ diadem” is as in mg. “ turban.”

Job 29:18-Proverbs : . Consequently Job looked forward to a long and untroubled life. In Job 29:18 b read as mg. “ as the phœ nix.” The poet refers to the Egyptian story of this bird, which renewed its life every 500 years, and was naturally, therefore, an illustration of great longevity. The “ bow” in Job 29:20 is the symbol of strength.

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929) was an English biblical scholar, born at Leek, Staffordshire, and educated at St John's College, Oxford. He was the first holder of the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester, from its establishment as an independent institution in 1904. He was thus the first non-Anglican to become a professor of divinity in an English university.In 1890-92 he was a lecturer at Mansfield College, Oxford, and from 1890 to 1897 held a fellowship at Merton College.In 1892, however, he was invited to become tutor at the Primitive Methodist Theological Institute in Manchester, which was renamed Hartley College in 1906. He was largely responsible for broadening the curriculum which intending Primitive Methodist ministers were required to follow, and for raising the standards of the training.In 1895-1912 he served as lecturer in the Lancashire Independent College, from 1904 to 1912 also in the United Methodist College at Manchester. In 1904 he was appointed Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the (Victoria) University of Manchester. (This chair was in the Faculty of Theology established in that year; it was renamed "Rylands Professor, etc." in 1909.)Peake was also active as a layman in wider Methodist circles, and did a great deal to further the reunion of Methodism which took effect in 1932, three years after his death. In the wider ecumenical sphere Peake worked for the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, serving as president in 1928, and was a member of the World Conference on Faith and Order held in Lausanne in 1927. He published and lectured extensively, but is best remembered for his one-volume commentary on the Bible (1919), which, in its revised form, is still in use.The University of Aberdeen made him an honorary D. D. in 1907. He was a governor of the John Rylands Library.... Show more

First published in 1919, Peake's commentary of the bible was a one-volume commentary that gave special attention to Biblical archaeology and the then-recent discoveries of biblical manuscripts. Biblical quotations in this edition were from the Revised Version of the Bible.... Show more

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