Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Job 21:28
the dwelling places:
Heb. the tent of the tabernacles of the wicked
the dwelling places:
Heb. the tent of the tabernacles of the wicked
Verse Job 21:28. _FOR YE SAY_, WHERE IS _THE HOUSE OF THE PRINCE?_] In order to prove your point, ye ask, _Where is the house of the_ _tyrant and oppressor_? Are they not overthrown and destroyed? And...
FOR YE SAY, WHERE IS THE HOUSE OF THE PRINCE? - That is, you maintain that the house of the wicked man, in a high station, will be certainly over thrown. The parallelism, as well as the whole connecti...
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...
WHERE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. PRINCE. noble....
Finally, still pursuing his argument, Job turns to the insinuations of his friends against himself, which lie under their descriptions of the fate of the wicked. He knows what they mean when they say,...
_house of the prince_ "Prince" here perhaps in a bad sense like the classical "tyrant," cf. Isaiah 13:2. _the dwelling places of the wicked_ Or, THE TENTS IN WHICH THE WICKED DWELT, lit. _the tent of...
BEHOLD, I KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS— By the _day of destruction,_ and _the day of wrath,_ mentioned in the 30th verse, I believe it will appear, from the context, can be meant no other than the future day of...
5. So, your argument that I am wicked because I suffer is false. (Job 21:27-34) TEXT 21:27-34 27 BEHOLD, I KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me. 28 For ye say, Where is...
_FOR YE SAY, WHERE IS THE HOUSE OF THE PRINCE? AND WHERE ARE THE DWELLING PLACES OF THE WICKED?_ Ye say - referring to Zophar (Job 20:7). THE HOUSE - referring to the fall of the house of Job's old...
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...
PRINCE] here probably means 'tyrant.' 29, 30. The meaning is: Have you not asked the traveller who has seen the world what are his conclusions on the subject? Are you not familiar with the examples h...
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...
Perhaps Job’s friends did not know any evil people who were successful. Today we often read about such people in the newspapers. Then, people would hear the news from travellers....
OF THE PRINCE — _i.e., of the generous, virtuous, princely man?_ — the antithesis to the wicked man. “Behold I know your thoughts, for ye say, How can we tell who is virtuous and who is wicked? and co...
כִּ֤י תֹֽאמְר֗וּ אַיֵּ֥ה בֵית ־נָדִ֑יב וְ֝ אַ
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...
For ye say, Where [is] the (p) house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked? (p) Thus they called Job's house in derision concluding that it was destroyed because he was wic...
_Prince. Job, (Menochius) or rather the tyrant, whose lot we know is miserable, as he falls a victim of God's justice, chap. xx. 7._...
(27) В¶ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. (28) For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? (29) H...
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...
FOR YE SAY,.... Or "have said", or "[I know] that ye say"; or "[that] ye are about to say" a; it is in your hearts and minds, and just ready to come out of your lips, and what you will say next: WHER...
For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked? Ver. 28. _For ye say, Where is the house of the prince?_] Ye say though not in so many words, yet up...
_Behold, I know your thoughts_ I perceive what you think and will object for your own defence; _and the devices_ Hebrew, ומזמות, _umezimmoth, machinationes pravas, the evil thoughts_, or, _wicked desi...
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince, of the mighty and influential nobleman? AND WHERE ARE THE DWELLING-PLACES OF THE WICKED, literally, "the tent of the dwellings of the wicked"? The text em...
Job Rebukes his Friends for their One-Sidedness....
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...
27-34 Job opposes the opinion of his friends, That the wicked are sure to fall into visible and remarkable ruin, and none but the wicked; upon which principle they condemned Job as wicked. Turn to wh...
YE SAY, to wit, in your minds. _Where is the house of the prince_ ? i.e. it is no where, it is lost and gone. This is spoken either, 1. Of Job, or his eldest son, whose house God had lately overthrow...
Job 21:28 say H559 (H8799) house H1004 prince H5081 tent H4908 place H168 wicked H7563 Where -...
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...
Habakkuk 2:9; Job 20:7; Numbers 16:26; Psalms 37:36; Psalms 52:5;...