SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:22
En todo esto no pecó Job, ni atribuyó locura a Dios.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 1:22
Verse 22. In all this Job sinned not ] He did not give way to any action, passion, or expression, offensive to his Maker. He did not charge God with acting unkindly towards him, but felt as perfectly satisfied with the privation which the hand of God had occasioned, as he was with the affluence and health which that hand had bestowed. This is the transaction that gave the strong and vivid colouring to the character of Job; in this, and in this alone, he was a pattern of patience and resignation. In this Satan was utterly disappointed; he found a man who loved his God more than his earthly portion. This was a rare case, even in the experience of the devil. He had seen multitudes who bartered their God for money, and their hopes of blessedness in the world to come for secular possessions in the present. He had been so often successful in this kind of temptation, that he made no doubt he should succeed again. He saw many who, when riches increased, set their hearts on them, and forgot God. He saw many also who, when deprived of earthly comforts, blasphemed their Maker. He therefore inferred that Job, in similar circumstances, would act like the others; he was disappointed. Reader, has he, by riches or poverty, succeeded with thee? Art thou pious when affluent, and patient and contented when in poverty? THAT Job lived after the giving of the law, seems to me clear from many references to the rites and ceremonies instituted by Moses. In ver. 5, we are informed that he sanctified his children, and offered burnt-offerings daily to the morning for each of them. This was a general ordinance of the law, as we may see, Lev. ix. 7: "Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin-offering and thy burnt-offering, and make an atonement for thyself and for the people." Lev. ix. 22: "And Aaron lifted up his hands towards the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering the burnt- offering." This sort of offering, we are told above, Job offered continually; and this also was according to the law, Exod. xxix. xl2: "This shall be a continual burnt-offering throughout your generations." See also Num. xxviii. 3, 6, 10, 15, 24, 31. This custom was observed after the captivity, Ezra iii. 5: "They offered the continual burnt-offering: and of every one that offered a freewill-offering." See also Neh. x. 33. Ezekiel, who prophesied during the captivity, enjoins this positively, Ezekiel xlvi. 13-15: "Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt-offering unto the Lord; thou shalt prepare it every morning." Job appears to have thought that his children might have sinned through ignorance, or sinned privately; and it was consequently necessary to make the due sacrifices to God in order to prevent his wrath and their punishment; he therefore offered the burnt-offering, which was prescribed by the law in cases of sins committed through ignorance. See the ordinances Lev. iv. 1-35; v. 15-19, and particularly Num. xv. 24-29.
I think it may be fairly presumed that the offerings which Job made for his children were in reference to these laws.
The worship of the sun, moon, and stars, as being the most prevalent and most seductive idolatry, was very expressly forbidden by the law, Deut. iv. 19: "Take heed, lest thou lift up thine eyes to heaven; and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them." Job purges himself from this species of idolatry, chap. xxxi. 26- x18: "If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness, and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: this also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge; for I should have denied the God that is above." He clears himself also from adultery in reference to the law enacted against that sin, chap. xxxi. 9-12: "If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; then let my wife grind to another: for this is a heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges." See the law against this sin, Exod. xx. 14, 17: "Thou shalt not commit adultery: thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife." Lev. xx. 10: "The man that committeth adultery with another man's wife shall surely be put to death;" see Deut. xxii. 22. And for the judge's office in such cases, see Deut. xvii. 9-12: "Thou shalt come unto the priests and Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment." 1 Sam. ii. 25: "If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him." The following will, I think, be considered an evident allusion to the passage of the Red Sea, and the destruction of the proud Egyptian king: chap. xxvi. 11, 12: "The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at his reproof. He divideth the sea with his power; and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud." These, with several others that might be adduced, are presumptive proofs that the writer of this book lived after the giving and establishment of the law, if not much later, let Job himself live when he might. See other proofs in the notes.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20-22 - Job humbled himself under the hand of God. He reasons from the commo state of human life, which he describes. We brought nothing of thi world's goods into the world, but have them from others; and it is certain we can carry nothing out, but must leave them to others. Job under all his losses, is but reduced to his first state. He is but where he must have been at last, and is only unclothed, or unloade rather, a little sooner than he expected. If we put off our clothe before we go to bed, it is some inconvenience, but it may be the bette borne when it is near bed-time. The same who gave hath taken away. Se how Job looks above instruments, and keeps his eye upon the Firs Cause. Afflictions must not divert us from, but quicken us to religion If in all our troubles we look to the Lord, he will support us. The Lord is righteous. All we have is from his gift; we have forfeited i by sin, and ought not to complain if he takes any part from us Discontent and impatience charge God with folly. Against these Jo carefully watched; and so must we, acknowledging that as God has don right, but we have done wickedly, so God has done wisely, but we have done very foolishly. And may the malice and power of Satan render tha Saviour more precious to our souls, who came to destroy the works of the devil; who, for our salvation, suffered from that enemy far mor than Job suffered, or we can think __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
בכל 3605 זאת 2063 לא 3808 חטא 2398 איוב 347 ולא 3808 נתן 5414 תפלה 8604 לאלהים׃ 430
