Those that remain of him shall be buried in death. — That is, as the context shows, it shall be obscure, and excite no sympathy; their very death shall be as it were a burial, and shall consign them to oblivion.
His widows. — That is, those commonly hired for the purpose of making lamentation for the dead, or the widows of those that remain of him.
Verse Job 27:15. _THOSE THAT REMAIN OF HIM_] שרידיו _seridaiv, his_ _remains_, whether meaning himself personally, or his family. _SHALL BE BURIED IN DEATH_] Shall come to _utter_ and _remediless_ _...
THOSE THAT REMAIN OF HIM - Those that survive him. SHALL BE BURIED IN DEATH - Hebrew “shall be buried BY death” (במות _bamâveth_), that is. “Death shall be the grave-digger” - or, they shall have no...
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...
BURIED IN DEATH. buried through pestilence. HIS WIDOWS. The widow of each one of them....
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...
The utter destruction of the wicked man is exhibited in three turns: his children and descendants are destined for the sword, and become the prey of famine and pestilence (Job 27:13); his wealth and p...
_buried in death_ "Death" is here, as often (Jeremiah 15:2; Jeremiah 18:21; Jeremiah 43:11) _pestilence_. Those that sword and famine spare (Job
THOSE THAT REMAIN OF HIM, &C.— The learned Schultens has, I think, given the true meaning of this passage, rendering it, _they shall have death itself for their sepulture; i.e._ they shall be reduced...
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...
BURIED IN DEATH] rather, 'buried by death.' 'Death' should here be rendered, 'pestilence': cp. Jeremiah 15:2; Jeremiah 18:21. In such a case there would be only maimed funeral rites....
Perhaps Job thought that these children would be as evil as their father. Or perhaps Job thought that the children would suffer because of their father’s evil deeds. The Bible teaches that God will pu...
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...
_שְׂ֭רִידָיו_† בַּ † מָּ֣וֶת יִקָּבֵ֑רוּ וְ֝ אַלְמְנֹתָ֗יו...
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...
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows (l) shall not weep. (l) No one will lament him....
_In death; without honour. (Sanctius) --- Weep for him. Septuagint, "his widows no one shall lament, or pity." (Haydock) (Psalm lxxvii. 63.) (Menochius)_...
(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...
THOSE THAT REMAIN OF HIM,.... Of the wicked man after his death; or such that remain, and have escaped the sword and famine: SHALL BE BURIED IN DEATH: the pestilence, emphatically called death by the...
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep. Ver. 15. _Those that remain of him shall be buried in death_] That is, shall be presently and privately buried (as so...
_It is for the sword_ That they may be cut off by the sword, either of war or of justice: _and his offspring_, &c. Shall be starved, or shall want necessaries. _Those that remain of him_ Who survive t...
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, those who escaped the first punishments would become victims of the pestilence; AND HIS WIDOWS SHALL NOT WEEP, being hindered even from observing the...
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...
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...
THOSE THAT REMAIN OF HIM; who survive and escape that sword and famine. SHALL BE BURIED IN DEATH; either, 1. Shall die, and so be buried. Or, 2. Shall be buried as soon as ever they are dead, either...
Job 27:15 survive H8300 buried H6912 (H8735) death H4194 widows H490 weep H1058 (H8799) Those -...
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;...
1 Kings 14:10; 1 Kings 14:11; 1 Kings 16:3; 1 Kings 16:4; 1 King
Remain — Who survive that sword and famine. Widows — For they had many wives. Weep — Because they also, as well as other persons, groaned under their tyranny, and rejoice in their deliverance from it....