Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 10:21
Verse 21. I shall not return ] I shall not return again from the dust to have a dwelling among men. To the land of darkness ] See the notes on chap. iii. 5. There are here a crowd of obscure and dislocated terms, admirably expressive of the obscurity and uncertainty of the subject. What do we know of the state of separate spirits? What do we know of the spiritual world? How do souls exist separate from their respective bodies? Of what are they capable and what is their employment? Who can answer these questions? Perhaps nothing can be said much better of the state than is here said, a land of obscurity, like darkness. The shadow of death - A place where death rules, over which he projects his shadow, intercepting every light of every kind of life. Without any order, µyrds alw velo sedarim, having no arrangements, no distinctions of inhabitants; the poor and the rich are there, the master and his slave, the king and the beggar, their bodies in equal corruption and disgrace, their souls distinguished only by their moral character. Stripped of their flesh, they stand in their naked simplicity before God in that place.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14-22 - Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. Hi gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribe to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sens of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remainin depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will no destroy the work of his hands in any humble believer; but will rene him unto holiness, that he may enjoy eternal life. If anguish on eart renders the grave a desirable refuge, what will be their condition wh are condemned to the blackness of darkness for ever? Let every sinne seek deliverance from that dreadful state, and every believer be thankful to Jesus, who delivereth from the wrath to come __________________________________________________________________
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