The sorrow. Protestants, "his iniquity." Marginal note, "that is the punishment. " (Haydock) --- The children shall share in his punishment, (Calmet) when they have been partakers, or imitators of his injustice. (Haydock) --- Know his offence, and whether there be a God (Calmet) and Providence. (Menochius)
Verse Job 21:19. _GOD LAYETH UP HIS INIQUITY FOR HIS CHILDREN_] This is according to the declaration of God, Exodus 20:5: "Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and f...
GOD LAYETH UP HIS INIQUITY FOR HIS CHILDREN - Margin, that is, “the punishment of iniquity.” This is a reference evidently to the opinion which “they” had maintained. It may be rendered, “You say that...
CHAPTER 21 JOB'S REPLY _ 1. Hear my solemn words--then mock on (Job 21:1)_ 2. His testimony concerning the experiences of the wicked (Job 21:7) 3. Your answers are nothing but falsehoods (Job 21:27...
JOB 21. JOB'S REPLY. Zophar was graphic and vigorous, but had nothing to say. Nevertheless his speech suggests to Job his next argument. The facts are quite the opposite of what Zophar has said: the w...
GOD. [How oft] Eloah. HIS: i.e. the lawless man's children. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avert,_ App-44. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for punishment brought on by it. CHILDREN. sons....
A conceivable objection, and its answer by Job. The verses read, 19. God (say ye) layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it; 20. Let his own e...
The negative side of his theme is now illustrated by Job. In Job 21:7 he shewed that the wicked enjoy great, life-long prosperity; now he shews that they are free from calamity; such sudden and disast...
This great mystery of the prosperity of the wicked in God's providence Job now unfolds on both its sides: first, they and all belonging to them prosper, and they die in peace, although in conscious go...
LO, THEIR GOOD IS NOT IN THEIR HAND— After the foregoing elegant description of the prosperity of some wicked men, Job proceeds, on the other hand, to confess what was likewise apparent in the ways of...
3. Sometimes they suffer, but not regularly. (Job 21:17-22) TEXT 21:17-22 17 HOW OFT IS IT THAT THE LAMP OF THE WICKED IS PUT OUT? That their calamity cometh upon them? That _God_distributeth sorro...
_GOD LAYETH UP HIS INIQUITY FOR HIS CHILDREN: HE REWARDETH HIM, AND HE SHALL KNOW IT._ Equally questionable is the friends' assertion, that if the godless himself is not punished, the children are (Jo...
21:19 his (d-10) i.e. the wicked man's....
JOB'S SIXTH SPEECH Zophar, like the other friends, had insisted on the certain retribution for sin which befalls the wicked in this life. Now at length these views draw from Job a direct contradictio...
RV '_Ye say,_ God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself that he may know it.' The friends may argue that retribution may, at all events, fall upon the wicked man'...
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 21 JOB REPLIES TO ZOPHAR’S...
God mattered more to Job than anything else. But Job would still complain about his situation. He agreed that God should punish evil people. But Job did not realise when God will punish them. Job alre...
GOD LAYETH UP HIS INIQUITY (i.e., the punishment of it) FOR HIS CHILDREN, may be the hypothetical reply of the antagonists in the mouth of Job, and the second clause his own retort: “Let him repay it...
אֱלֹ֗והַּ יִצְפֹּן ־לְ בָנָ֥יו אֹונֹ֑ו יְשַׁלֵּ֖ם...
XVIII. ARE THE WAYS OF THE LORD EQUAL? Job 21:1 Job SPEAKS WITH less of personal distress and a more collected mind than before Job begins a reply to Zophar. His brave hope of vindication has forti...
“SHALL ANY TEACH GOD?” Job 21:1 After a brief introduction, in which he claims the right to reply, Job 21:1, Job brings forward a new argument. He affirms that his friends are wrong in assuming that...
Here, as in the first cycle, Job answered not merely Zophar, but the whole argument. First of all, he set over against their statement and illustrations the fact patent to all that often the wicked ar...
(14) Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. (15) What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?...
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...
GOD LAYETH UP HIS INIQUITY FOR HIS CHILDREN,.... This is a prevention of an objection which Job foresaw his friends would make, and therefore takes it up and answers to it; you will say, that, be it s...
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]. Ver. 19. _God layeth up his iniquity for his children_] That is, the punishment of his iniquity, while he visite...
_God layeth up_ Namely, in his treasures; _his iniquity _ Or rather, _the punishment of his iniquity;_ that is, He will punish him both in his person and in his posterity. _His eyes shall see his dest...
God layeth up his iniquity for his children, that is, for the children of the wicked, this exclamation showing what hopes Job still held. HE REWARDETH HIM, AND HE SHALL KNOW IT, or, Let God recompense...
JOB POINTS OUT THE DIFFERENCE IN CALAMITIES BEFALLING MEN...
JOB SILENCES ZOPHAR (vv.1-34). The callous cruelty of Zophar's speech would surely cause some men to be bitterly angry, but while Job was incensed by such treatment, he did not lose his temper. He...
HIS INIQUITY: That is, the punishment of his iniquity...
"YOU SAY": Job anticipates an objection here, that his friends would claim that even in the case when. wicked man lives. long life, the judgment still comes upon his sons. Job argues back that the wi...
17-26 Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in this life. He reconciles this to the holiness a...
GOD LAYETH UP, to wit, in his treasures, ROMANS 2:5. HIS INIQUITY, or rather, _the punishment of his iniquity_, i.e. he will punish him both in his person and in his posterity. HE SHALL KNOW IT, i.e....
Job 21:19 God H433 up H6845 (H8799) iniquity H205 children H1121 recompense H7999 (H8762) know H3045 ...
INIQUITY That is, the punishment of his iniquity....
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Zophar in which he denies any secret sin. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: The providences of God in the government of this world are sometimes hard to be u...
Job 21:2. _Consolations._ נחם _nicham,_ though mostly translated consolation, comfort &c., as in Isaiah 40:1; is in several places understood of a change of mind, or of repentance. So in Judges 21., w...
_But Job answered and said._ JOB’S THIRD ANSWER There is more logic and less passion in this address than in any of Job’s preceding speeches. He felt the dogma of the friends to be opposed-- I. To...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 21:1 Job’s response closes the second cycle of the dialogue with his friends. ⇐ ⇔...
_JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH_ The ungodly, instead of experiencing the miseries indicated by Zophar, often, perhaps generally, enjoy continued ease and prosperity in this life. I. INTRODUC...
EXPOSITION JOB 21:1 Job answers Zophar, as he had answered Bildad, in a single not very lengthy chapter. After a few caustic introductory remarks (verses 2-4), he takes up the challenge which Zophar...
By Chuck Smith This time shall we turn to the book of Job, chapter 21. Zophar has just concluded in chapter 20 his second speech in which, again, he sort of just gives some of the traditions and quote...
2 Corinthians 5:21; 2 Samuel 3:39; 2 Timothy 4:14; Deuteronomy 32:34;...
Layeth up — In his treasures, Romans 2:5. Iniquity — The punishment of his iniquity; he will punish him both in his person and in his posterity....