Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Job 21:24
His breasts. — This is an uncertain word, occurring only here. Some understand it literally of milk-pails, others of the lacteals of the human body, which certainly suits the parallelism better.
His breasts. — This is an uncertain word, occurring only here. Some understand it literally of milk-pails, others of the lacteals of the human body, which certainly suits the parallelism better.
Verse Job 21:24. _HIS BREASTS ARE FULL OF MILK_] The word עטיניו _atinaiv_, which occurs nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible, is most likely an _Arabic_ term, but probably so _provincial_ as to be now l...
HIS BREASTS - Margin, “milk pails.” The marginal translation is much the most correct, and it is difficult to understand why so improbable a statement has been introduced into our common version. But...
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...
BREASTS. skin bottles....
_His breasts are full of milk_ Perhaps, HIS VESSELS are full of milk; but the meaning is uncertain, the word rendered "breasts" not occurring again. The word however has analogies in the cognate langu...
By insisting on a doctrine of providence which did not correspond to God's providence as actually seen in facts, Job's friends were making themselves wiser than God and becoming His teachers Will any...
LO, THEIR GOOD IS NOT IN THEIR HAND— After the foregoing elegant description of the prosperity of some wicked men, Job proceeds, on the other hand, to confess what was likewise apparent in the ways of...
4. The only equality is to be found in death. (Job 21:23-26) TEXT 21:23-26 23 ONE DIETH IN HIS FULL STRENGTH, Being wholly at ease and quiet: 24 His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his...
_HIS BREASTS ARE FULL OF MILK, AND HIS BONES ARE MOISTENED WITH MARROW._ Breasts - rather, skins or vessels for fluids (Lee). But Umbreit has 'stations or resting-places of his herds near water:' in...
21:24 fat, (e-6) Or 'his vessels are full of milk.'...
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...
BREASTS] mg. 'milk-pails.' AND HIS BONES, etc.] RV 'And the marrow of his bones is moistened': he is strengthened and refreshed. 27-34. Job says he knows that the friends' remarks are aimed at him....
This is like Job’s earlier words in Job 3:13-19. Job described well the death of the body. But he did not describe what happened to the men’s spirits. See Luke 16:19-26. THE REPORTS OF TRAVELLERS...
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...
עֲ֭טִינָיו מָלְא֣וּ חָלָ֑ב וּ מֹ֖חַ עַצְמֹותָ֣יו...
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...
_Bowels. Protestants, "breasts" (Marginal note, "milk-pails") are full of milk. But the Septuagint, Bochart, &c., agree with the Vulgate. Job describes a corpulent man (Calmet) living in luxury, like...
(14) Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. (15) What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?...
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...
HIS BREASTS ARE FULL OF MILK,.... As this is not literally true of men, some versions read the words otherwise; his bowels or intestines are full of fat, as the Vulgate Latin and Septuagint; and other...
His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. Ver. 24. _His breasts are full of milk, and his bones, &c._] He is well lined within, as we say, having abundance of good blood...
_One dieth in his full strength_ In a state of perfect health, and strength, and prosperity; all which this phrase implies. _His breasts are full of milk_ The Hebrew word, עשׂין, _gnatin_, here render...
His breasts, rather, his troughs, milk-pails, skins for carrying liquids, ARE FULL OF MILK, AND HIS BONES ARE MOISTENED WITH MARROW, literally, "the marrow of his bones is well watered," like rich, ir...
JOB POINTS OUT THE DIFFERENCE IN CALAMITIES BEFALLING MEN...
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...
BREASTS: Or, milk pails...
17-26 Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in this life. He reconciles this to the holiness a...
HIS BREASTS: the Hebrew word is not elsewhere used, and therefore it is diversely translated; either, 1. _Breasts_. But that seems very improper here, because men's breasts do not use to be filled wit...
Job 21:24 pails H5845 full H4390 (H8804) milk H2461 marrow H4221 bones H6106 moist H8248 (H8792) His bre
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...
Job 15:27; Proverbs 3:8; Psalms 17:10...