Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 1:20

20. Then Job arose , and rent his Mantle , and shaved his head , and fell down upon the ground , and worshipped e.

From his seat whereon he was sitting in a disconsolate posture.

To testifie his deep sense of, and just sorrow for the heavy hand of God upon him, and his humiliation of himself under his hand. See Gen. 37. 34.

i. e. Caused the Hair of his Head to be shaved or cut off, which was then an usual Ceremony in mourning, of which see Ezra. 9. 3. Isa. 15. 2. and 22. 12. Ier. 7. 29. and 41. 5. Mich. 1. 16.

In way of self-abhorrency, and Humiliation and Supplication unto God. To wit, God, who is expressed in the following verse, and who is the only Object of Religious Worship: Instead of cursing God, which Satan said he would do, he adored him, and gave him the Glory of his Soveraignty, and of his Justice▪ and of his Goodness also, in this most severe Dispensation.

Marginal references: Or, [illegible: 1 word].