Job 6:13, 31:7, 16, Phili 3:19 | JFB | e4.org | 13. Is not my help in me? —The interrogation is better omitted. "There is no help in me!" For "wisdom," "deliverance" is a better rendering. "And deliverance is driven quite from me."

‏ Job 6:13

13. Is not my help in me?—The interrogation is better omitted. "There is no help in me!" For "wisdom," "deliverance" is a better rendering. "And deliverance is driven quite from me."

‏ Job 31:7

7. Connected with Job 31:6.

the way—of God (Job 23:11; Jer 5:5). A godly life.

heart . . . after . . . eyes—if my heart coveted, what my eyes beheld (Ec 11:9; Jos 7:21).

hands— (Ps 24:4).

‏ Job 31:16

16. fail—in the vain expectation of relief (Job 11:20).

‏ Philippians 3:19

19. destruction—everlasting at Christ's coming. Php 1:28, "perdition"; the opposite word is "Saviour" (Php 3:20).

end—fixed doom.

whose god is their belly— (Ro 16:18); hereafter to be destroyed by God (1Co 6:13). In contrast to our "body" (Php 3:21), which our God, the Lord Jesus, shall "fashion like unto His glorious body." Their belly is now pampered, our body now wasted; then the respective states of both shall be reversed.

glory is in their shame—As "glory" is often used in the Old Testament for God (Ps 106:20), so here it answers to "whose God," in the parallel clause; and "shame" is the Old Testament term contemptuously given to an idol (Jud 6:32, Margin). Ho 4:7 seems to be referred to by Paul (compare Ro 1:32). There seems no allusion to circumcision, as no longer glorious, but a shame to them (Php 3:2). The reference of the immediate context is to sensuality, and carnality in general.

mind earthly things— (Ro 8:5). In contrast to Php 3:20; Col 3:2.