Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Job 21:3
Suffer me that I may speak without such interruption as you have given me, Job 20:2; and if I do not defend my cause with solid and convincing arguments, go on in your scoffs if you please.
Suffer me that I may speak without such interruption as you have given me, Job 20:2; and if I do not defend my cause with solid and convincing arguments, go on in your scoffs if you please.
SUFFER ME THAT I MAY SPEAK - Allow me to speak without interruption, or bear with me while I freely express my sentiments - it is all that I now ask. AND AFTER THAT I HAVE SPOKEN, MOCK ON - Resume you...
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...
MOCK ON. mock [thou] on, as if pointing to him....
_mock on_ This last word is sing. and seems addressed to Zophar the last speaker, whose pictures of the fate of the wicked deeply wounded Job. Having heard his account of the prosperity of the wicked,...
F. INTEGRITY, PROSPERITY, AND THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY RIGHTEOUS GOD (Job 21:1-34) 1. Job pleads for a sympathetic hearing. (Job 21:1-6) TEXT 21:1-6 21 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, _2_ Hear dilig...
_SUFFER ME THAT I MAY SPEAK; AND AFTER THAT I HAVE SPOKEN, MOCK ON._ 'Then you may go on with your mockings' (Job 17:2)....
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...
In chapter 20, Zophar insisted that the happiness of wicked people could not last. He thought that everybody would agree with him. But Job could not agree. Job knew that many wicked people are succes...
שָׂ֭אוּנִי וְ אָנֹכִ֣י אֲדַבֵּ֑ר וְ אַחַ֖ר דּ
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...
(1) В¶ But Job answered and said, (2) Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. (3) Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. The man of Uz makes another a...
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...
SUFFER ME THAT I MAY SPEAK,.... To go on with his discourse, without any interruption, until he had finished it; as he before craves their attention, here he entreats their patience to hear him out, a...
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. Ver. 3. _Suffer me that I may speak_] Say that it be suffering to you to hear me (for now I see you have, as they write of some crea...
_Hear diligently my speech_ If you have no other comfort to administer, at least afford me this: be so kind, so just, as to give me a patient hearing: _and let this be your consolations_ I shall accep...
Suffer me that I may speak, they should consent to his speaking, enduring it once more; AND AFTER THAT I HAVE SPOKEN, MOCK ON, this last being addressed to Zophar on account of his cutting statements....
JOB APPEALS FOR CONSIDERATION...
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...
"THEN AFTER. HAVE SPOKEN, YOU MAY MOCK": "Sarcastically he added that if they would do him that favor, then after he finished, they could continue their mocking" _(Zuck p. 97)._...
1-6 Job comes closer to the question in dispute. This was, Whether outward prosperity is a mark of the true church, and the true members of it, so that ruin of a man's prosperity proves him a hypocrit...
Job 21:3 Bear H5375 (H8798) speak H1696 (H8762) after H310 spoken H1696 (H8763) mocking H3932 ...
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...
Job 12:4; Job 12:5; Job 13:13; Job 13:9; Job 16:10;...
Speak — without interruption. Mock — If I do not defend my cause with solid arguments, go on in your scoffs....