Matthew Poole Commentary - Job 35:10 - 35:10

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Job 35:10 - 35:10


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None, i.e. few or none (for few are oft called and accounted as none, both in Scripture and other authors) of the great numbers of oppressed persons.



None saith, to wit, seriously or sincerely, and it may be not so much as in word and profession.



Where is God? they howl and cry out of men, and to men, but they seek not after God; they do not acknowledge him in all their ways; they praise him not for that ease, and liberty, and estate, and other mercies which God gave them; and by this unthankfulness they forfeit their mercies; and therefore if God suffer oppressors to take them away, they have no cause to complain of God, but only of themselves: they will not vouchsafe to pray to God seriously and fervently, either to continue or to restore their lost mercies; and therefore if God do not hear nor regard their brutish cries, arising only from a natural sense of their misery, it is not strange nor unjust.



My Maker; who alone made me, and whose power and providence preserveth me every day, and who only can protect and deliver me; all which were obligations upon them to praise God, and pray to him, and depend upon him, and aggravations of their gross neglect of God. Heb. my Makers, in the plural number; which being used not only here, but also Ecc_12:1 Isa_44:5, and that without any necessity, when it might as well have been put in the singular number, yea, though Elohim be plural, as it is Gen_1:1, plainly implies a plurality of persons in the Divine essence, of which see on Gen_1:26. Songs, i.e. matter of songs; great occasion to rejoice and praise God.



In the night; either,



1. Metaphorically taken, i.e. in the night of affliction; implying that they want not cause to bless God even in their afflictions. Or rather,



2. Properly, as this word is always used in Job, one place excepted, which is doubtful, to wit, Job_36:20; which he may mention rather than the day, either because oppressed persons, who in the day time are cruelly used by their oppressors, are permitted to rest in the night; or because the hand and mercy of God is more manifest in the preservation, and rest, and sleep of the night, than in the blessings of the day, which are procured by man’s industry; or because the day is the time of action, the night of contemplation, when we do and ought to remember God’s mercies with thanksgiving: compare Psa_42:8 119:62.