And let this be your consolations— And let this be the consolation you administer. Heath. Schultens renders it, And this shall be for your consolations. "What I have to say, is in return for these wonderful consolations that you bring me;" understanding the passage ironically, which very well agrees with the next verse, the last clause whereof he renders, And after I have pleaded my cause, let it be your mockery.
Verse Job 21:2. _LET THIS BE YOUR CONSOLATIONS._] ותהי זאת תנחומתיכם _uthehi zoth tanchumotheychem_ may be translated, "And let this be your retractations." Let what I am about to say induce you to _r...
HEAR DILIGENTLY - Hebrew “Hearing hear” - that is, hear attentively. What he was about to say was worthy of their solemn consideration. AND LET THIS BE YOUR CONSOLATIONS - That is, “You came to me for...
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...
HEAR DILIGENTLY. See note on Job 13:17....
_your consolations_ They believed they were offering him the consolations of God (ch. Job 15:11); the consolation he seeks from them is that they listen to him....
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...
_HEAR DILIGENTLY MY SPEECH, AND LET THIS BE YOUR CONSOLATIONS._ Consolations. If you will listen calmly to me, this will be regarded by me as "consolations;" alluding to Eliphaz' boasted "consolation...
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...
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...
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...
HEAR DILIGENTLY MY SPEECH. — “Listen to my words, and let _that_ be the consolation you give me.”...
שִׁמְע֣וּ שָׁ֭מֹועַ מִלָּתִ֑י וּ תְהִי ־זֹ֝֗את...
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...
Hear diligently my speech, and let this (a) be your consolations. (a) Your diligent marking of my words will be to me a great consolation....
_Do. "After your opinion." (Menochius) --- Symmachus, "hear." Septuagint, "may this be for your consolation," (Hebrew) which I shall receive from you, or which you may make use of, if you should be af...
(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...
_‘AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM’_ ‘Hear diligently my speech,’ etc. Job 21:2 I. JOB ASKS HIS FRIENDS TO SUFFER HIM AGAIN TO SPEAK, BECAUSE HIS COMPLAINT IS NOT FOR THEM ONLY, BUT FOR ALL.—And he goes on to s...
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...
HEAR DILIGENTLY MY SPEECH,.... The following oration or discourse he was about to deliver concerning the prosperity of wicked men; to which he desires their closest attention, that they might the bett...
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. Ver. 2. _Hear diligently my speech_] Heb. In hearing hear. The Greek hath it, Hear, hear; that is, hear me out, have so much patience wit...
_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...
Hear diligently my speech and let this be your consolations. What Job was about to state was to take the place of the bungling attempts of his friends to set matters right. At the same time attentive...
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...
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...
Or, _this shall be your consolations_, i.e. I shall accept of your patient and diligent attention to me, instead of all those consolations which you owed to me in this condition, and which I expected...
Job 21:2 Listen H8085 (H8798) carefully H8085 (H8800) speech H4405 consolation H8575 Hear - Job
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...
Hebrews 2:1; Isaiah 55:2; Job 13:3; Job 13:4; Job 15:11;...
Hear, &c. — If you have no other comfort to administer, at least afford me this. And it will be a comfort to yourselves in the reflection, to have dealt tenderly with your afflicted friend....