Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
(Psalms 66:18, "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.")
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
(Psalms 66:18, "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.")
WILL GOD HEAR HIS CRY WHEN TROUBLE COMETH UPON HIM? - Coverdale has rendered this Job 27:8 so as to make excellent sense, though not strictly in accordance with the original. “What hope hath the hypoc...
CHAPTER 27 JOB'S CLOSING WORDS IN SELF-VINDICATION _ 1. My righteousness I hold fast (Job 27:1)_ 2. The contrast between himself and the wicked (Job 27:7) Job 27:1. Zophar, the third friend, no long...
THIRD SPEECH OF ZOPHAR. He once more reiterates, in spite of all Job has said, that the wicked shall perish. He bursts out Let mine enemy be as God's enemy. I can wish him no worse doom. In Job 27:8 t...
WILL... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_....
The dreary and desolate condition of the mind of the wicked man in affliction....
B. NO BELIEVERS ANONYMOUS, I.E., NO UNIVERSAL SALVATION (Job 27:7-23) TEXT 27:7-23 7 LET MINE ENEMY BE AS THE WICKED, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous. 8 For what is th...
JOB'S EIGHTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-6. Job protests that he is innocent. Job 27:1 are an enlargement of what Job had previously said (Job 13:16) of his determination not to admit that he was being puni...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 27 JOB CONTINUES HIS LAST S...
In chapter 21, Job argued that God does not seem to punish wicked people. In Job 24:1, Job thought that he was waiting in vain for God to act as judge. But in chapter 27, Job was speaking as if he was...
הַֽ֭ צַעֲקָתֹו יִשְׁמַ֥ע ׀ אֵ֑ל כִּֽי ־תָבֹ֖וא...
XXII. THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS Job 26:1; Job 27:1 Job SPEAKS BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm. "How hast thou helped one without power! How hast thou saved the strengthless...
THE JUSTICE OF GOD Job 27:1 Zophar ought now to have taken up the discourse, but, as he is silent, Job proceeds. First he renews _his protestations of integrity,_ Job 27:1. He denies the charge of be...
There would seem to have been a pause after Job's answer to Bildad. The suggestion is that he waited for Zophar, and seeing that Zophar was silent, he took the initiative, and made general reply. This...
_Him. Like Antiochus, the wicked pray only through fear of punishment, and their request is therefore rejected, 2 Machabees ix. 13. (Menochius)_...
(8) For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? (9) Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? (10) Will he delight himself in the Almighty? w...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
WILL GOD HEAR HIS CRY WHEN TROUBLE COMETH, UPON HIM?] No, he will not, he heareth not sinners, and such as regard iniquity in their hearts, Psalms 66:18; every man has trouble more or less in this lif...
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? Ver. 9. _Will God hear his cry_] Here is another distinctive note between a hypocrite and an honest man. As many are said in Daniel to cleave to th...
_Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh?_ When any calamity comes upon him; or, when his conscience accuses him, and his guilt flies in his face? Will God pay any regard to the cries of one who reg...
JOB'S AGAIN PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE...
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? Cf Psalms 66:18. The answer evidently is that the Lord would pay no attention to him, but would let him be submerged in his misery....
HOLDING FAST HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS (vv.1-7) In Chapter 26 Job answered Bildad fully. Bildad's last argument was very brief, and after this Zophar had nothing at all to say. Job has already won the debat...
7-10 Job looked upon the condition of a hypocrite and a wicked man, to be most miserable. If they gained through life by their profession, and kept up their presumptuous hope till death, what would th...
A hypocrite doth not pray to God with comfort, or any solid hope that God will hear him, as I know he will hear me, though not in the way which you think. WHEN TROUBLE COMETH UPON HIM; when his guilty...
Job 27:9 God H410 hear H8085 (H8799) cry H6818 trouble H6869 comes H935 (H8799) Will God -...
Remember that Job's friends had accused him of having committed some great sin; which would account for his great sorrows. The good man is naturally very indignant, and he uses the strongest possible...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: The consideration of the miserable condition of the hypocrite should engage us to be upright. KEY WORD: Hypocr...
Job 27:1. _Parable,_ equivalent to a wise, learned and conclusive speech. Job 27:2. _God hath taken away my judgment._ The old readings here are preferable. The LXX, God judgeth me thus, or so heavily...
_Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?_ THE PRIVATIONS OF GODNESSNESS I. He has no refuge in trouble. When “trouble cometh upon him” he cannot cry unto God with any hope of being heard...
_Moreover Job continued his parable._ POINTS IN JOB’S PARABLE I. A solemn asseveration. “As God liveth.” The words imply a belief-- 1. In the reality of the Divine existence. Whilst some deny this...
_JOB’S REPLY TO THE FRIENDS IN GENERAL_ Job now alone in the field. Zophar, who should have followed Bildad, and to whom Job had given opportunity to speak, has apparently nothing to say. Job, therefo...
EXPOSITION JOB 27:1 This chapter divides itself into three distinct portions. In the first, which extends to the end of Job 27:6, Job is engaged in maintaining, with the utmost possible solemnity (ve...
Job continued his answer and he said, As God lives, who has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul; All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;...
Ezekiel 8:18; Hosea 7:14; Isaiah 1:15; James 4:3; Jeremiah 11:11;...