One, to wit, either,
1. One of these wicked men, of whose condition he is here speaking. Or,
2. Any one man, whether good or bad. In his full strength; in a state of perfect health, and strength, and prosperity; all which this phrase implies.
Verse Job 21:23. _ONE DIETH IN HIS FULL STRENGTH_] In this and the three following verses Job shows that the inequality of fortune, goods, health, strength, c., decides nothing either for or against...
ONE DIETH IN HIS FULL STRENGTH - Margin, “very perfection,” or, “in the strength of his perfection.” The meaning is, that he dies in the very prime and vigor of life, surrounded with everything that c...
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...
_in his full strength_ lit. _in his very perfection_, or completeness, meaning, in the full enjoyment of all that made his lot _complete_, wanting nothing as the second clause explains....
By insisting on a doctrine of providence which did not correspond to God's providence as actually seen in facts, Job's friends were making themselves wiser than God and becoming His teachers Will any...
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...
4. The only equality is to be found in death. (Job 21:23-26) TEXT 21:23-26 23 ONE DIETH IN HIS FULL STRENGTH, Being wholly at ease and quiet: 24 His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his...
_ONE DIETH IN HIS FULL STRENGTH, BEING WHOLLY AT EASE AND QUIET._ Literally, in the bone х_ `ETSEM_ (H6106)] of his perfection - i:e., the full strength of unimpaired prosperity (Umbreit)....
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...
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...
This is like Job’s earlier words in Job 3:13-19. Job described well the death of the body. But he did not describe what happened to the men’s spirits. See Luke 16:19-26. THE REPORTS OF TRAVELLERS...
ONE DIETH. — Job enlarges on the inequality of human fate, showing that death is the only equaliser....
זֶ֗ה יָ֭מוּת בְּ עֶ֣צֶם תֻּמֹּ֑ו כֻּ֝לֹּ֗ו שׁ
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...
One (m) dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. (m) Meaning, the wicked....
_Hale, or healthy. Hebrew, "in perfect strength." (Haydock) --- Septuagint, "simplicity, or folly." St. Augustine reads with the old Vulgate, "in the strength of his simplicity, (Calmet) or innocence....
(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...
ONE DIETH IN HIS FULL STRENGTH,.... Man is born a weak feeble creature, and it is by degrees, and through various stages of infancy, childhood, and youth, that he arrives to his full strength in manho...
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. Ver. 23. _One dieth in his full strength_] _Iste moritur,_ There is one dieth in his very perfections; or, in the strength of his perfe...
_One dieth in his full strength_ In a state of perfect health, and strength, and prosperity; all which this phrase implies. _His breasts are full of milk_ The Hebrew word, עשׂין, _gnatin_, here render...
One dieth in his full strength, in the full possession of the highest prosperity, BEING WHOLLY AT EASE AND QUIET, lacking nothing in human happiness....
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...
IN HIS FULL STRENGTH: _ Heb._ in his very perfection, or in the strength of his perfection...
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...
Job 21:23 dies H4191 (H8799) full H8537 strength H6106 ease H7946 secure H7961 in his full strength - Heb. in his very perfection, or, the strength of his perfection,...
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...
_One dieth in his full strength. .. Another dieth in the bitterness of his soul._ PROVIDENCE VINDICATED AGAINST THE SUPERFICIAL OBSERVER That which hampers men most in understanding providence is its...
_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...
Job 20:22; Job 20:23; Luke 12:19; Psalms 49:17; Psalms 73:4;...