CHAPTER XXI _Job expresses himself as puzzled by the dispensations of Divine_ _Providence, because of the unequal distribution of temporal_ _goods; he shows that wicked men often live long, prosper...
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...
ANSWERED. replied. See note on Job 4:1....
_JOB OBSERVES, THAT THE WICKED SOMETIMES LIVE HAPPILY, AND SOMETIMES THEIR DESTRUCTION IS MANIFEST, YET, THOUGH SOME LEAD A PROSPEROUS, AND OTHERS AN AFFLICTED LIFE, ALL ARE CUT OFF ALIKE BY DEATH: WH...
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...
_BUT JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
XXI. (1) BUT JOB ANSWERED. — Having, in Job 19, declared his belief in a retribution to come, Job now proceeds to traverse more directly Zophar’s last contention, and to show that even in this life t...
וַ יַּ֥עַן אִיֹּ֗וב וַ יֹּאמַֽר׃...
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...
CONTENTS Job again takes up the discourse in this Chapter, and makes another appeal against the false reasoning of his friends. He contendeth, that the wicked sometimes prosper in this life, and ther...
(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...
BUT JOB ANSWERED AND SAID. In reply to what Zophar had asserted, concerning the prosperity of the wicked being only for a short time, Job 20:5; the contrary to which he most clearly proves, and that i...
But Job answered and said, Ver. 1. _But Job answered and said_] Disproving and refuting that proposition of theirs concerning the infelicity of the ungodly by reason, by experience, and by divine aut...
_But Job answered and said_ It has been thought strange that Job should never resume the argument of a resurrection, which was so full of piety and conviction; but, when resuming the dispute with his...
But Job answered and said, in setting aside the insinuations of Zophar,...
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...
"LISTEN CAREFULLY TO MY SPEECH": Here Job pleads for his friends to simply listen to what he has to say. Their careful listening and silence would be far more comforting than their words of advice....
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 CHAPTER 21 Job's reply: he complaineth not to man, in whose judgment he hath most reason to grieve; but exciteth their attention to convincing and amazing truths, JOB 21:1. The wicked prosper till...
Job 21:1 Job H347 answered H6030 (H8799) said H559 (H8799)...
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’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 21:1...