Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Job 27:12
(12) Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. — That is, “You have seen me so proclaim the great power of God.”
(12) Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. — That is, “You have seen me so proclaim the great power of God.”
Verse Job 27:12. _YE YOURSELVES HAVE SEEN_ IT] Your own experience and observation have shown you that the righteous are frequently in affliction, and the wicked in affluence. _WHY THEN ARE YE THUS...
BEHOLD, ALL YE YOURSELVES HAVE SEEN IT - You have had an opportunity of tracing the proofs of the wisdom of God in his works. WHY THEN ARE YE THUS ALTOGETHER VAIN - Why is it that you maintain such op...
CHAPTER 27 JOB'S CLOSING WORDS IN SELF-VINDICATION _ 1. My righteousness I hold fast (Job 27:1)_ 2. The contrast between himself and the wicked (Job 27:7) Job 27:1. Zophar, the third friend, no long...
THIRD SPEECH OF ZOPHAR. He once more reiterates, in spite of all Job has said, that the wicked shall perish. He bursts out Let mine enemy be as God's enemy. I can wish him no worse doom. In Job 27:8 t...
The disastrous fate of the wicked man at the hand of God. Job 27:7-10 drew a contrast between the internal state of the mind of the speaker and that of the sinner; in these verses the contrast is pur...
_are ye thus altogether vain?_ i. e. wherefore do ye cherish and express opinions regarding me so foolish? "Two things are surprising here," says Dillmann, "first, that Job should undertake to teach t...
B. NO BELIEVERS ANONYMOUS, I.E., NO UNIVERSAL SALVATION (Job 27:7-23) TEXT 27:7-23 7 LET MINE ENEMY BE AS THE WICKED, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous. 8 For what is th...
_I WILL TEACH YOU BY THE HAND OF GOD: THAT WHICH IS WITH THE ALMIGHTY WILL I NOT CONCEAL._ These words are contrary to Job's previous sentiments (notes, Job 21:22; Job 24:22). They therefore seem to b...
JOB'S EIGHTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-6. Job protests that he is innocent. Job 27:1 are an enlargement of what Job had previously said (Job 13:16) of his determination not to admit that he was being puni...
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 27 JOB CONTINUES HIS LAST S...
In verse 12, Job recognised that his friends had already said such things. But their speeches were foolish because they were trying to accuse Job. For example, when Zophar spoke about wicked people (c...
הֵן ־אַתֶּ֣ם כֻּלְּכֶ֣ם חֲזִיתֶ֑ם וְ לָמָּה ־
XXII. THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS Job 26:1; Job 27:1 Job SPEAKS BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm. "How hast thou helped one without power! How hast thou saved the strengthless...
THE JUSTICE OF GOD Job 27:1 Zophar ought now to have taken up the discourse, but, as he is silent, Job proceeds. First he renews _his protestations of integrity,_ Job 27:1. He denies the charge of be...
There would seem to have been a pause after Job's answer to Bildad. The suggestion is that he waited for Zophar, and seeing that Zophar was silent, he took the initiative, and made general reply. This...
Behold, all ye yourselves (h) have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether (i) vain? (h) That is, these secret judgments of God and yet do not understand them. (i) Why do you then maintain this e...
(11) В¶ I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. (12) Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? (13) This is the por...
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...
BEHOLD, ALL YE YOURSELVES HAVE SEEN [IT],.... As they were men of observation, at least made great pretensions to it, as well as of age and experience, they must have seen and observed somewhat at lea...
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether vain? Ver. 12. _Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it_] And can say as much to it as I can in these _sc._ that God afflictet...
_Ye yourselves have seen it_ I speak no false or strange things: but what is known and confirmed by your own experience, and that of others. _Why then are ye thus altogether vain?_ In maintaining such...
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it, he concedes that the final lot of the wicked is often one of extreme affliction, he agrees to accept this observation; WHY, THEN, ARE YE THUS ALTOGETHER VAIN, g...
Belief in the Final Destruction of the Ungodly....
HOLDING FAST HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS (vv.1-7) In Chapter 26 Job answered Bildad fully. Bildad's last argument was very brief, and after this Zophar had nothing at all to say. Job has already won the debat...
Yet such teaching would only be. reminder of what they had already seen, so why were they acting so foolishly in ignoring such obvious truths?...
11-23 Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death...
I speak no false or strange things, but what is known and confirmed by your own as well as others experiences. WHY THEN ARE YE THUS ALTOGETHER VAIN, in maintaining such a foolish and false opinion aga...
Job 27:12 seen H2372 (H8804) behave H1891 complete H1892 nonsense H1891 (H8799) ye yourselves -...
Remember that Job's friends had accused him of having committed some great sin; which would account for his great sorrows. The good man is naturally very indignant, and he uses the strongest possible...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: The consideration of the miserable condition of the hypocrite should engage us to be upright. KEY WORD: Hypocr...
Job 27:1. _Parable,_ equivalent to a wise, learned and conclusive speech. Job 27:2. _God hath taken away my judgment._ The old readings here are preferable. The LXX, God judgeth me thus, or so heavily...
_I will teach you by the hand of God._ GOD’S TREATMENT OF WICKED MEN Looking at Job’s lecture or address, we have to notice two things. I. Its introduction. The eleventh and twelfth verses may be r...
_JOB’S REPLY TO THE FRIENDS IN GENERAL_ Job now alone in the field. Zophar, who should have followed Bildad, and to whom Job had given opportunity to speak, has apparently nothing to say. Job, therefo...
EXPOSITION JOB 27:1 This chapter divides itself into three distinct portions. In the first, which extends to the end of Job 27:6, Job is engaged in maintaining, with the utmost possible solemnity (ve...
Job continued his answer and he said, As God lives, who has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul; All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;...
Ecclesiastes 8:14; Ecclesiastes 9:1; Job 13:4; Job 16:3; Job 17:2;...
Have seen — I speak what is confirmed by your own, as well as others experiences. Vain — To condemn me for a wicked man, because I am afflicted....