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WHEREFORE DO THE WICKED LIVE? - Job comes now to the main design of
his argument in this chapter, to show that it is a fact, that the
wicked often have great prosperity; that they are not treated in t...
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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...
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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...
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This great mystery of the prosperity of the wicked in God's providence
Job now unfolds on both its sides: first, they and all belonging to
them prosper, and they die in peace, although in conscious go...
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The mystery is, Why do the wicked prosper? They live long, they see
their children grow up, and their homes are peaceful (Job 21:7). Their
cattle thrives (Job 21:10). Their children and they pass a mi...
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_Wherefore do the wicked live_ The question scarcely means, How is it,
if your principles be true, that the wicked live? Job's mind is
engrossed with the great problem itself, and he asks, Why in the...
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MARK ME, AND BE ADMONISHED, &C.— The coldest reader cannot be
insensible of the beauties of the poetry in this speech of Job. We
will not, therefore, attempt to point them out, but attend to the
threa...
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2. The wicked enjoy great peace and plenty. (Job 21:7-16)
TEXT 21:7-16
7 WHEREFORE DO THE WICKED LIVE,
Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
8 Then- seed is established with them in their sight,...
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_WHEREFORE DO THE WICKED LIVE, BECOME OLD, YEA, ARE MIGHTY IN POWER?_
Wherefore do the wicked live. The answer is (Romans 2:4; 1 Timothy
1:16; Psalms 73:18;...
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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...
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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...
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Job described the good lives of some evil people.
Previously, Job had lived a good life like this. He had many animals.
And he had many children. And Job’s own children enjoyed their
parties. Job was...
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מַדּ֣וּעַ רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִחְי֑וּ
עָ֝תְק֗וּ גַּם ־גָּ֥בְרוּ...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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Wherefore do the wicked (d) live, become old, yea, are mighty in
power?
(d) Job proves against his adversaries that God does not punish the
wicked immediately, but often gives them long life and pros...
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_Riches. This is what fills me with great anxiety. Yet it quite
destroys the force of your argument, (Calmet) since you pretend that
the prosperity of the wicked is never of long duration. We see them...
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(7) В¶ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in
power?
Job in this verse reminds his friends of the very different state of
the wicked. It is as if he had said, If according to you...
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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...
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WHEREFORE DO THE WICKED LIVE,.... Which question is put either to God
himself, as not knowing ow to account for it, or to reconcile it to
his divine perfections; that he, a holy, just, and righteous B...
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Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Ver. 7. _Wherefore do the wicked live, become old_] _Vivunt,
veteraseunt,_ they are lively and longlived, so that they outlast many...
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_Wherefore do the wicked live?_ That is, long and happily: _become
old?_ Namely, in their prosperous state: _yea, are mighty in power?_
Are preferred to places of authority and trust, and not only mak...
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JOB POINTS OUT THE DIFFERENCE IN CALAMITIES BEFALLING MEN...
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Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Whereas Zophar had maintained that they die early, 20:5, Job here
states that they live on, that they reach a ripe old age, that the...
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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...
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"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 continu...
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7-16 Job says, Remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon
notorious sinners, but not always. Wherefore is it so? This is the day
of God's patience; and, in some way or other, he makes use of the...
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He expostulates this matter partly with his friends, If things be as
you say, how comes this to pass, &c? partly with God himself,
Wherefore doth the righteous God distribute things so unequally? THE...
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Job 21:7 wicked H7563 live H2421 (H8799) old H6275 (H8804) mighty
H1396 (H8804) power H2428
Wherefore -...
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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...
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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...
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_Wherefore do the wicked live?_
REASON FOR THE EXISTENCE OF THE WICKED ON EARTH
I. As witnesses to attest.
1. The amount of freedom with which man is endowed. How free is man
compared to everything...
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_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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 21:1 Job’s response closes the second cycle of the
dialogue with his friends.
⇐ ⇔...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 21:7 Job argues that, contrary to what his friends
have been saying (e.g., Job 18:5), the WICKED often prosper and their
OFFSPRING
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Daniel 4:17; Habakkuk 1:15; Habakkuk 1:16; Jeremiah 12:1; Job 12:6;...