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The Blessing of the Clothed
Commentators explain that the phrase 'if his loins have not blessed me' is a powerful personification. The very body of the person Job helped is poetically described as offering thanks. This imagery suggests that the gratitude of the poor was so profound it was as if their physical being cried out in blessing for their benefactor.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 31:20
18th Century
Theologian
If his loins have not blessed me - This is a personification by which the part of the body that had been clothed by the benevolenc…
John Gill
On Job 31:20
17th Century
Pastor
If his loins have not blessed me
Which were girded and covered with garments he gave him; which, as often as he put …
Matthew Henry
On Job 31:16–23
17th Century
Minister
Job's conscience gave testimony concerning his just and charitable behaviour toward the poor. He is most expansive on this topic, because in this m…