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When men are cast down, Heb. When they (i.e. they who do this work. It is an indefinite and impersonal speech, which is very common in the Hebrew language) shall cast down or overthrow; either,
1. Proud and wicked men, as may be guessed by the opposition of the humble and innocent, who should be saved, whilst these were destroyed. So the sense is, When there shall come a general calamity, which shall sweep away all the wicked round about them. Or,
2. Thee, or thine; which pronoun is oft understood. So the sense is, When through God’s permission thou shalt be brought into some trouble, which God sees fit for thee.
Thou shalt say within thyself, with good assurance and confidence.
There is lifting up; or, There shall be lifting up, either,
1. For them; if they repent and humble themselves, they shall be preserved or restored. And this thou wilt assure them of from thy own experience. Or,
2. For thee and thine; God will deliver thee, when others are crushed and destroyed. And; or, for; this particle being oft put causally, as hath been formerly noted. So the following words contain a reason why he might confidently say, that there would be such a lifting up for a person so humbled.
He, i.e. God, unto whom only salvation belongeth, Psa_3:8.
Shall save; either,
1. Eternally; or,
2. Temporally, to wit, from the evils here mentioned.
The humble person, Heb. him that hath low or cast-down eyes; which phrase may here note, either,
1. Humility and lowliness of mind and disposition, as pride is oft expressed by high or lofty looks, as Psa_18:27 101:5 131:1 Pro_6:17. And so this is a tacit admonition and reproof for Job, whom for his confident justification of himself, and his contemptuous expressions and censures concerning them, they judged to Job guilty of intolerable pride of heart. Or,
2. Lowness of estate or condition, as Jam_1:10. So it notes him whose eyes and countenance are dejected by reason of his great troubles and miseries; as, on the contrary, prosperity makes persons lift up their eyes and faces.