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Job 20:7-9
This wicked man may be powerful while he is alive. But when he dies, nobody will even remember this man.
This wicked man may be powerful while he is alive. But when he dies, nobody will even remember this man.
Verse Job 20:7. _HE SHALL PERISH FOR EVER_] He is _dust_, and shall return to the dust from which he was taken. Zophar here hints his disbelief in that doctrine, the resurrection of the body, which J...
CHAPTER 20 THE SECOND ADDRESS OF ZOPHAR _ 1. Zophar's swift reply (Job 20:1)_ 2. Another description of the life and fate of the wicked (Job 20:4) Job 20:1. Zophar, the twitterer, begins his reply t...
JOB 20. SECOND SPEECH OF ZOPHAR. Zophar helps the return to the wider problem by appearing once more with a strong doctrine as to the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked. His theme is, Sin bring...
The prosperity of the wicked is brief 4. _Knowest thou not this old_ i. e. knowest thou not this to be or to have been of old, lit. _from for ever_. "This" which is from of old and from the time man h...
_like his own dung_ Zophar is not the most refined of the three, cf. 2 Kings 9:37. On the last words of the verse cf. ch. Job 14:10....
DISCOURSE: 470 AGAINST HYPOCRISY Job 20:4. _Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? T...
KNOWEST THOU NOT, &C.— The latter clause of Job 20:4 might as well have been rendered, _Since Adam was placed on the earth._ There is no reason to doubt but that this passage refers to the fall, and t...
E. POWERLESSNESS OF PROSPERITYNO ULTIMATE SECURITYZOPHAR'S WARNING (Job 20:1-29) TEXT 20:1-29 THEN ANSWERED ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE, AND SAID, _2_ Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even b...
_YET HE SHALL PERISH FOR EVER LIKE HIS OWN DUNG: THEY WHICH HAVE SEEN HIM SHALL SAY, WHERE IS HE?_ Dung - in contrast to the haughtiness of the sinner (Job 20:6); this strong term expresses disgust a...
ZOPHAR'S SECOND SPEECH Zophar ignores Job's conviction that God will one day establish his innocence, and proceeds to describe the short triumph of the wicked and his certain downfall and punishment...
כְּֽ֭ גֶלֲלֹו לָ נֶ֣צַח יֹאבֵ֑ד רֹ֝אָ֗יו יֹאמ
XVII. IGNORANT CRITICISM OF LIFE Job 20:1 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE great saying that quickens our faith and carries thought into a higher world conveyed no Divine meaning to the man from Naamah. The autho...
“THE TRIUMPHING OF THE WICKED” Job 20:1 Zophar is the man who least of all understood Job. The rebuke which Job had just administered, Job 19:28, has vexed him, so that he speaks with impatience. Th...
With evident haste, Zophar replied. His speech is introduced with an apology for his haste and a confession of his anger. He had heard the reproof, but he was not convinced; and the spirit of his unde...
_Hill. Hebrew, "his own dung." (Haydock) (Proverbs x. 7.)_...
(4) Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, (5) That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? (6) Though his excellency mount up to...
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...
[YET] HE SHALL PERISH FOR EVER LIKE HIS OWN DUNG,.... Not only in this world, but in the world to come, both in his outward substance here, and in his body in the grave, and in his soul to all eternit...
Job 20:7 [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he? Ver. 7. _Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung_] Than the which nothing is more...
_Though his excellency mount up to the heavens_ Though he be advanced to great dignity and authority in the world. _He shall perish like his own dung_ Which men cast away with contempt and abhorrence....
ZOPHAR PICTURES THE END OF THE UNGODLY...
yet he shall perish forever like his own dung, spurned, falling into decay, and forgotten; THEY WHICH HAVE SEEN HIM SHALL SAY, WHERE IS HE? He will have disappeared so utterly and quickly that his van...
THE WICKED MAN'S BRIEF TRIUMPH (vv.1-5) Zophar does not even consider the possibility that Job is not wicked, but again strongly condemns the wicked, making it evident that he is really speaking of...
1-9 Zophar's discourse is upon the certain misery of the wicked. The triumph of the wicked and the joy of the hypocrite are fleeting. The pleasures and gains of sin bring disease and pain; they end in...
LIKE HIS OWN DUNG; which men cast away with contempt and abhorrency. Compare 1 KINGS 14:10 2 KINGS 9:37. THEY WHICH HAVE SEEN HIM, with admiration at his felicity. WHERE IS HE? i.e. he is no where to...
Job 20:7 perish H6 (H8799) forever H5331 refuse H1561 seen H7200 (H8802) say H559 (H8799) perish -...
CONTENTS: Zophar's second discourse on Job's case. CHARACTERS: God, Zophar, Job. CONCLUSION: Though wicked men may sometimes prosper, their joy is but for a moment and will quickly end in endless so...
Job 20:2. _I make haste_ to answer, for thou reproachest both God and us. Zophar had felt the point of Job's sword, in the preseding discourse; but the present chapter may well be considered as a most...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 20:1 In his second response, Zophar expresses frustration at Job’s continued belief that God has brought about his suffering but will ultimately vindicate him (vv. Job 20:2). Zophar th...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 20:6 Zophar warns Job that whatever HEIGHT a wicked man may have achieved will not change the fact that, when his end comes, it will be quick and complete....
_ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH_ Produces nothing new; much more outspoken than before. Enlarges on the miseries overtaking the wicked, insinuating that Job was such. His argument,—like in condition, like in...
EXPOSITION JOB 20:1 Zophar's second speech is even more harsh than his first (Job 11:1.). He adds coarseness and rudeness to his former vehement hostility (Job 20:7,...
So Zophar, the third of the speakers, gives his second discourse. And again, he was the guy that was dealing with traditions earlier, and with wisdom and all, so he said to Job, Therefore do my thoug...
1 Kings 14:10; 2 Kings 9:37; Jeremiah 8:2; Job 14:10; Psalms 83:10...