Job 21:1
"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.... [ Continue Reading ]
"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.... [ Continue Reading ]
"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)._... [ Continue Reading ]
Job argues that he is not impatient with them, he was actually complaining to God because He was silent and he had good reason to be impatient.... [ Continue Reading ]
"LOOK AT ME, AND BE ASTONISHED": "Just. look at him ought to have astounded them into silence-yet they gazed at him and kept gabbing. Job himself was certainly horrified when he looked at himself (Job 21:6)" _(Zuck p. 97)._ "They ought to be amazed at his terrible appearance (he wanted them to look... [ Continue Reading ]
"WHY DO THE WICKED STILL LIVE": Right here Job begins his attack upon the erroneous views of his friends. Zophar had argued that the wicked perish like dung (Job 20:7), Job counters, "No, they continue to live long lives, their prosperity continues".... [ Continue Reading ]
Their children are not cut off (Job 20:26), rather they watch their children grow up and mature.... [ Continue Reading ]
They do not lose their possessions (Job 20:21), rather they are secure with seemingly no judgment from God.... [ Continue Reading ]
The livestock of many sinners prospers and their children are healthy and happy, and are not begging from the poor as Zophar claimed (Job 20:10). "Here we note. beautiful picture of peace, progress, and prosperity, as children are playing and singing like happy little lambs" _(Strauss pp. 210-211)._... [ Continue Reading ]
Zophar claimed that the wicked never live long enough to enjoy their prosperity (Job 20:15-18), and Job disagrees. They have parties, seem to enjoy life, and "suddenly" die. The idea of "suddenly" here does not mean that they are suddenly cut off, but that they die without any sort of long protracte... [ Continue Reading ]
"WE DO NOT EVEN DESIRE THE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR WAYS": All of this prosperity comes upon people who have completely dismissed God from their lives (Romans 1:28).... [ Continue Reading ]
"WHO IS THE ALMIGHTY, THAT WE SHOULD SERVE HIM?" This is what Pharaoh asked Moses (Exodus 5:3). "AND WHAT WOULD WE GAIN IF WE ENTREAT HIM?" Prayer and serving God is profitless the wicked claim, for they already have everything that they need. They "cynically flaunt God, even wondering what they wou... [ Continue Reading ]
"BEHOLD, THEIR PROSPERITY IS NOT IN THEIR HAND": Job does not go off the deep end, he does not envy the wicked, he realizes that God has allowed them to prosper and they are well off in spite of their wickedness and not because of it. "THE COUNSEL OF THE WICKED IS FAR FROM ME": "Even though they are... [ Continue Reading ]
To Bildad's claim that the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out (Job 18:5), and that death and disaster are ready to over take them (Job 18:12), Job asked, "How often does this really happen?" "Sinners are seldom blown away suddenly and easily like straw or chaff" _(Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 744)._... [ Continue Reading ]
"YOU SAY": Job anticipates an objection here, that his friends would claim that even in the case when. wicked man lives. long life, the judgment still comes upon his sons. Job argues back that the wicked person himself out to be judged for his own sins, because once he is dead, he could not care ab... [ Continue Reading ]
"CAN ANYONE TEACH GOD KNOWLEDGE?" In the verses that follow Job notes that there are wicked people who die in the prime of life (Job 21:23), others die completely happy and content, while another dies disappointed and frustrated. Job's point is that there "is no generalization that can be made rega... [ Continue Reading ]
Here Job informs his friends that he realizes that their speeches about the downfall of the wicked have been specifically directed at him. "He well knows the insinuations hidden in their query, 'Where is the house of the prince?' (that is, 'Where is your house, Job?'" _(Jackson p. 55). _... [ Continue Reading ]
"HAVE YOU NOT ASKED THE WAYFARING MEN": But their claims do not agree with the evidence, as anyone with traveling experience would confirm. "All they needed to do to see who was right was to ask travelers, those who had seen other parts of the world" _(Zuck p. 100)._... [ Continue Reading ]
Yes the wicked man will be judged, but he is not judged "immediately", he is reserved for the day of calamity.... [ Continue Reading ]
The wicked are basically allowed to continue in their evil ways without anyone daring to confront them. This is especially true of people who are wicked and powerful.... [ Continue Reading ]
Even in death, many wicked people are honored, and even after they are gone people guard their tomb and people will crowd around the funeral procession-all these things evidence even the popularity of the wicked. Yes, Job saw what we still see to this day. There are many powerful wicked people that... [ Continue Reading ]
Job could not be convicted nor comforted by their arguments, because their arguments were so untrue and flimsy.... [ Continue Reading ]