Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 21:13
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment (f) go down to the grave.
(f) Not being tormented with long sickness.
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment (f) go down to the grave.
(f) Not being tormented with long sickness.
Verse Job 21:13. _THEY SPEND THEIR DAYS IN WEALTH_] There is a various reading here of some importance. In the text we have יבלו _yeballu,_ _they grow old_, or wear out as with old age, _terent vetus...
THEY SPEND THEIR DAYS IN WEALTH - Margin, or, “mirth.” Literally, “they wear out their days in good” - בטוב _baṭôb_. Vulgate _“in bonis.”_ Septuagint, ἐν ἀγαθοῖς _en_ _agathois_ - “in good things...
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...
GO DOWN. get dashed. THE GRAVE. Hebrew. _Sheol._ App-35....
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...
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...
_in wealth_ i. e. _weal_, prosperity. The word has not here its modern meaning of riches, but its older, more general sense: "in all time of our tribulation, in all time of our wealth … good Lord deli...
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...
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,...
_THEY SPEND THEIR DAYS IN WEALTH, AND IN A MOMENT GO DOWN TO THE GRAVE._ Wealth - old English for prosperity. IN A MOMENT - not by a lingering disease. Great blessings! Lengthened life, with prosper...
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 A MOMENT] without prolonged illness or pain, such as that from which he himself suffers....
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...
Evil people do not want to serve anyone. Especially, they do not want to serve God. They only care about their own pleasure. They do not pray because they say, ‘We will not benefit if we pray. Prayer...
IN A MOMENT. — They go down to death without being made to feel the lingering tortures that Job had to undergo....
_יְכַלּ֣וּ_† בַ † טֹּ֣וב יְמֵיהֶ֑ם וּ֝ בְ...
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...
Moment. Septuagint, "in the rest of the lower region, Greek: adou, they shall be laid," (Haydock) in the grave. (Menochius) --- A sudden death, without agony or sickness, (Haydock) was the choice of J...
(8) Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. (9) Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. (10) Their bull gendereth, and...
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...
THEY SPEND THEIR DAYS IN WEALTH,.... Or "in good" p; not in the performance of good works, or in the exercise of that which is spiritually good; or in seeking after spiritual good things, or eternal h...
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Ver. 13. _They spend their days in wealth_] Or, in mirth. Heb. In good. They wallow in wealth, and have the world at their will,...
_They spend their days in wealth_ Hebrews בשׂוב, _batob, in good:_ εν αγαθοις, LXX., _in good things: in deliciis, in delights_, Arab. ver: that is, in the enjoyment of all the good things of this lif...
They spend their days in wealth, in the full enjoyment of prosperity, AND IN A MOMENT GO DOWN TO THE GRAVE; having had a care-free life, they enjoy also a quick death, without prolonged suffering....
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...
IN WEALTH: Or, in mirth...
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...
IN WEALTH; in good, i.e. in the enjoyment of all the good things of this life, without any mixture of evil. They do not die of a lingering and tormenting disease, as I now and many other good men die,...
Job 21:13 spend H3615 (H8762) (H8675) H1086 (H8762) days H3117 wealth H2896 moment H7281 down...
GRAVE Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
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...
_And in a moment go down to the grave._ THINGS CONTINGENT UPON A MOMENT Whatever begins, begins in a moment, and whatever ends, ends in a moment. Thoughts and purposes are formed in a moment--plans c...
_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—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
_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 36:11; Luke 12:19; Luke 12:20; Luke 17:28; Luke 17:29;...
Moment — They do not die of a lingering and tormenting disease....