Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/3_500_e.lzh/3_522.TXT

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\*Ver. 14. \\And he called the name of the first Jemima\\,
&c.] That is, the name of the first and eldest daughter
was called by Job Jemima; which either signifies
%day%, so the Targum interprets it, and most do, and so
is the same with Diana; or, as Spanheim {u} observes, it
may be the same with the Arabic word %jemama%, which
signifies a turtle or dove {w}; and who also observes that
a country in Arabia is so called, and perhaps from her;
and which seems to be confirmed by the Arabic geographer {x},
who speaks of a queen called Jamama, who
dwelt in a city of the country he describes as being on
the north of Arabia Felix, and also speaks of a way
from thence to Bozrah in Edom;
\*\\and the name of the
second, Kezia\\; or Cassia; an aromatic herb of a very
fragrant smell, as we render the word, \\#Ps 45:8\\;
and from this person the above learned writer conjectures
Mount Casius in Arabia might have its name;
\*\\and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch\\; which signifies
an horn or vessel of paint, such as the eastern
women used to paint their faces, particularly their
eyes with, \\#Jer 4:30\\; and as Jezebel did, \\#2Ki 9:30\\;
or %the ray of a precious stone%; some say the carbuncle {y}
or ruby; according to the Targum, the
emerald; in \\#1Ch 29:2\\, the word is rendered
%glittering stones%. Now these names may have respect
to Job's daughters themselves, to their external beauty,
afterwards observed, so the Targum,
\*"he called the
"one Jemima, because her beauty was as the day;
"the other he called Kezia, because she was precious
"like cassia; and another he called Kerenhappuch,
"because great was the brightness of the glory of her
"countenance, as the emerald."\*
\*The complexion of
the first might be clear as a bright day, though like that
but of a short continuancy; see \\#So 6:10\\; the next
might have her name from the fragrancy and sweetness
of her temper; and the third, as being so beautiful
that she needed no paint to set her off, but was
beauty and paint herself; or her beauty was as bright
and dazzling as a precious stone; see \\#La 4:7\\. Or
these may respect their internal qualities, virtues, and
graces; being children of the day, and not of the night;
having a good name, which is better than all spices; and
possessed of such graces as were comparable to jewels
and precious stones. Though it might be, that Job,
in giving them these names, may have respect to the
change of his state and condition; his first daughter
he called Jemima, or %day%, because it was now day, with
him: he had been in the night and darkness of adversity,
temporal and spiritual, but now he enjoyed a day
of prosperity, and of spiritual light and joy; the justness
of his cause appeared, his righteousness was
brought forth as the light, and his judgment as noonday;
and the dispensations of divine Providence appeared
to him in a different light than he had seen
them in: his second daughter he called Kezia, or
Cassia, an herb of a sweet smell, in opposition to the
stench of his ulcers and of his breath, which had been
so very offensive, and from which he was now free;
and may denote also the recovery of his good name,
better than precious ointment, in which cassia was an
ingredient: his youngest daughter he called Kerenhappuch,
the horn of paint, in opposition to his horn
being defiled in the dust, and his face foul with
weeping, \\#Job 16:15,16\\; or if Kerenhappuch signifies
the horn turned, as Peritsol interprets it, it
may have respect to the strange and sudden turn
of Job's affairs: and it is easy to observe, that men
have given names to their children on account of
their present state and condition, or on account of
the change of a former one; see \\#Ge 41:51,52 Ex 18:3,4\\.

\*Ver. 15. \\And in all the land were no women found [so] fair as the\\
\\daughters of Job\\, &c.] Either in the
whole world, which is not improbable: or it may be
rather in the land or country in which they dwelt; and
which may be gathered from their names, as before
observed. The people of God, and children of Christ,
the antitype of Job, are all fair, and there is no spot
in them; a perfection of beauty, perfectly comely,
through the comeliness of Christ put upon them, and
are without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing;
\*\\and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren\\;
which was done not on account of their beauty or
virtue; nor is this observed so much to show the great
riches of Job, that he could give his daughters as much
as his sons, as his impartiality to his children,
and his strict justice and equity in distributing his
substance to them all alike, making no difference between
male and female. And so in Christ, the antitype of Job,
there is neither male nor female, no
difference between them, \\#Ga 3:28\\: but being all children,
they are heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,
and equally partake of the same inheritance with the
saints in light, \\#Ro 8:17 Col 1:12\\.

\*Ver. 16. \\After this lived Job an hundred and forty\\,
years\\, &c.] Not after he had arrived to the height
of his prosperity; not after the birth of his children,
and they were grown up, and had their portions given
them, which must take in a considerable number of
years; but after his afflictions were over, and his prosperity
began: and if his years were doubled, as some
think, though that is not certain, then he must be
seventy years of age when he was so sorely afflicted
and must live to the age of two hundred and ten;
which is the common notion of the Jewish writers {z}:
however, he must be fifty or sixty years of age at that
time, since his former children were grown up and
were for themselves; and it is said {a}, his afflictions
continued seven years. So that it is not at all improbable
that he lived to be about two hundred years
of age; and which was a singular blessing of God to
him, if you compare his age with that of Jacob,
Joseph, Moses, and Joshua, between the two former
and the two latter he may be supposed to live;
\*\\and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations\\;
Joseph saw but the third, Job the fourth, he was a
great-great-grandfather. This was no doubt a pleasant
sight to him, to see such a numerous offspring descending
from him; and especially if they were walking
in the ways of God, as probably they were, since no
doubt he would take all the care of their education
that in him lay. This is the great blessing promised
to the Messiah, the antitype of Job, \\#Isa 53:10\\; see
also \\#Isa 59:21\\.

{u} Hist. Jobi, c. 12. s. 7.
{w} Golii Lexic. Arab. col. 2767, 2768.
{x} Geograph. Nub. Climat. 2. par. 6.
{y} Hiller. Onomastic. Sacr. p. 356.
{z} T. Bava Bathra, fol. 15. 1. Seder Olam Rabba, c. 3.
{a} Suidas in voce \~iwb\~.