SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:11
He aquí, tenemos por bienaventurados a los que sufren. Habis oído la paciencia de Job, y habis visto el fin del Seor, que el Seor es muy misericordioso y piadoso.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - James 5:11
Verse 11. We count them happy which endure.] According to that saying of our blessed Lord, Blessed are ye when men shall persecute and revile you-for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Matt. v. 11, 12, &c. Ye have heard of the patience of Job] Stripped of all his worldly possessions, deprived at a stroke of all his children, tortured in body with sore disease, tempted by the devil, harassed by his wife, and calumniated by his friends, he nevertheless held fast his integrity, resigned himself to the Divine dispensations, and charged not God foolishly.
And have seen the end of the Lord] The issue to which God brought all his afflictions and trials, giving him children, increasing his property, lengthening out his life, and multiplying to him every kind of spiritual and secular good. This was God's end with respect to him; but the devil's end was to drive him to despair, and to cause him to blaspheme his Maker.
This mention of Job shows him to have been a real person; for a fictitious person would not have been produced as an example of any virtue so highly important as that of patience and perseverance. The end of the Lord is a Hebraism for the issue to which God brings any thing or business.
The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.] Instead of polusplagcnov, which we translate very pitiful, and which might be rendered of much sympathy, from poluv, much, and splagcnon, a bowel, (because any thing that affects us with commiseration causes us to feel an indescribable emotion of the bowels,) several MSS. have poluensplagcnov, from paluv, much, eu, easily, and splagcnon, a bowel, a word not easy to be translated; but it signifies one whose commiseration is easily excited, and whose commiseration is great or abundant.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. Behold, we count them happy which endure , etc.] Affliction, with courage, constancy, and patience, and hold out to the end; for such shall be saved; theirs is the kingdom of heaven; they are happy now, and will be so hereafter: the Spirit of God, and of glory, now rests upon them; and it is an honour done them that they are counted worthy to suffer for Christ; and they will be glorified with him to all eternity; the consideration of which may serve to encourage and increase patience. Ye have heard of the patience of Job ; from the account which is given of him, and his patience, in the book that bears his name; how he behaved under every trial, which came one upon the back of another; as the plundering of his substance, the loss of his children, and of the health of his body; and yet in all this Job sinned not, nor murmured against God, nor charged him foolishly, and was a mirror of patience; and though he afterwards let fall some expressions of impatience, yet he was humbled for them, and brought to repentance: this shows, that as the Apostle James, so the Jews, to whom he writes, believed that there had been really such a man as Job; and that the book which bears his name is an authentic piece of holy Scripture, and contains a narrative of matters of fact; or otherwise this reference to him would have been impertinent. How long Job endured the chastenings of the Lord cannot be said. The Jews say they continued on him twelve months, which they gather from ( Job 7:3). And have seen the end of the Lord ; that is, the happy end, or exodus, out of all his troubles; which the Lord gave to him, as the Oriental versions add; for he gave him twice as much as he had before, and blessed his latter end more than his beginning, ( Job 42:10,12). Some understand this of the Lord Jesus Christ, both of his great patience in sufferings, in which he is an example to his people, and they would do well to look to, and consider him; and of the end of his sufferings, his glorious resurrection from the dead, and session at the right hand of God, where he is crowned with glory and honour; but the former sense is best: that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy ; as to Job, so to all his people; his paternal relation to them engages his pity towards them; nor does he willingly afflict them; and when he does, he sympathizes with them; he is afflicted with them, and in his pity redeems them; his heart moves towards them, and he earnestly remembers them, and works deliverance for them in his own time and way; and therefore it becomes them to be patient.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-11 - Consider him that waits for a crop of corn; and will not you wait for crown of glory? If you should be called to wait longer than the husbandman, is not there something more worth waiting for? In ever sense the coming of the Lord drew nigh, and all his people's losses hardships, and sufferings, would be repaid. Men count time long because they measure it by their own lives; but all time is as nothin to God; it is as a moment. To short-lived creatures a few years seem a age; but Scripture, measuring all things by the existence of God reckons thousands of years but so many days. God brought about thing in Job's case, so as plainly to prove that he is very pitiful and of tender mercy. This did not appear during his troubles, but was seen in the event, and believers now will find a happy end to their trials. Le us serve our God, and bear our trials, as those who believe that the end will crown all. Our eternal happiness is safe if we trust to him all else is mere vanity, which soon will be done with for ever.
Greek Textus Receptus
ιδου 2400 5628 μακαριζομεν 3106 5719 τους 3588 υπομενοντας 5278 5723 την 3588 υπομονην 5281 ιωβ 2492 ηκουσατε 191 5656 και 2532 το 3588 τελος 5056 κυριου 2962 ειδετε 1492 5627 οτι 3754 πολυσπλαγχνος 4184 εστιν 2076 5748 ο 3588 κυριος 2962 και 2532 οικτιρμων 3629
Vincent's NT Word Studies
11. Endure (upomenontav). Present participle. But the later texts read uJpomeinantav, the aorist participle, which endured; referring to the prophets in the past ages. So Rev. On endured and patience, see on ver. 7. The end of the Lord (to telov kuriou). A peculiar expression. The happy conclusion to which God brought Job's trials.
Very pitiful and of tender mercy (polusplagcnov kai oiktirmwn). The former adjective only here in New Testament; the latter here and Luke vi. 36. Rev., full of pity and merciful. Polusplagcnov, is from poluv much, and splagcna the nobler entrails, used like our heart, as the seat of the emotions. Hence the term bowels in the A.V. (Philip. i. 8; Col. iii. 12, etc.). Compare eusplagcnoi, tender-hearted, Ephesians iv. 32. The distinction between this and oijktirmwn, merciful, seems to be that the former denotes the general quality of compassion, while the latter emphasizes the sympathy called out by special cases, being the feeling which is moved to pain at another's suffering.
