Job 20:25

_IT IS DRAWN, AND COMETH OUT OF THE BODY; YEA, THE GLITTERING SWORD COMETH OUT OF HIS GALL: TERRORS ARE UPON HIM._ It is drawn - literally, 'He (God) draweth (the sword, Joshua 5:13), and (no sooner has He done so, than) it cometh out of (i:e., passes right through) the (sinner's) body' (Deuteronomy 32:41; Ezekiel 21:9). 'The glittering sword' is in the Hebrew "lightning" х_ BAARAAQ_ (H1300)]. GALL - i:e., his life (Job 16:13) 'inflicts a deadly wound.' TERRORS - the terrors of death, which with horror he perceives approaching through the deadly

23-29 Zophar, having described the vexations which attend wicked practices, shows their ruin from God's wrath. There is no fence against this, but in Christ, who is the only Covert from the storm and tempest, Isaiah 32:2. Zophar concludes, "This is the portion of a wicked man from God;" it is allotted him. Never was any doctrine better explained, or worse applied, than this by Zophar, who intended to prove Job a hypocrite. Let us receive the good explanation, and make a better application, for warning to ourselves, to stand in awe and sin not. One view of Jesus, directed by the Holy Spirit, and by him suitably impressed upon our souls, will quell a thousand carnal reasonings about the suffering of the faithful....

Verse Job 20:25. _IT IS DRAWN, AND COMETH OUT_] This refers to _archery_: The arrow is _drawn out_ of the sheaf or quiver, and discharged from the bow against its mark, and pierces the vitals, and passes through the body. So _Coverdale_. - _The arowe shal be taken forth, and_ _go out at his backe_....

IT IS DRAWN - Or rather, “he draws” - that is, he draws out the arrow that has been shot at him; or it may mean, as Prof. Lee supposes, that he draws, that is, “someone” draws the arrow from its quiver, or the sword from its sheath, in order to smite him. The object is to describe his death, and to show that he should be certainly overtaken with calamity. Zophar, therefore, goes through the process by which he would be shot down, or shows that he could not escape. AND COMETH OUT OF THE BODY - That is, the arrow, or the glittering blade. It has penetrated the body, and passed through it. He shall be pierced through and through. THE GLITTERING SWORD - Hebrew ברק _bârâq_ - “the glittering;” scil. thing, or weapon, and is given to the sword, because it is kept bright. Cometh out of his gal

EXPOSITION JOB 20:1 Zophar's second speech is even more harsh than his first (Job 11:1.). He adds coarseness and rudeness to his former vehement hostility (Job 20:7, Job 20:15). His whole discourse is a covert denunciation of Job as a wicked man and a hypocrite (verses 5, 12, 19, 29), deservedly punished by God for a life of crime. He ends by prophesying Job's violent death, the destruction of his house, and the rising up of heaven and earth in witness against him (verses 24-28). JOB 20:1,...

IT IS DRAWN, AND COMETH OUT OF THE BODY,.... That is, the arrow with which a wicked man is stricken through; either it is drawn, and comes out of the quiver, as Broughton; or rather is drawn out of the body of a wicked man, being shot into it, and that in order that he may be cured of his wound if possible, but to no purpose, since it follows: YEA, THE GLITTERING SWORD COMETH OUT OF HIS GALL; being thrust into it, which being pierced and poured out, is certain and immediate death, see Job 16:13. Some render it, yea, "the glittering [sword] out of his gall, he shall go away", or "is gone" f; that is, he shall die, or is a dead man, there is no hope of him, when the arrow has transfixed his body, and the sword has penetrated into his gall, and divided that: TERRORS [ARE] UPON HIM; the terrors of death, the plain symptoms of it being upon him; the

CHAPTER 20 THE SECOND ADDRESS OF ZOPHAR _ 1. Zophar's swift reply (Job 20:1)_ 2. Another description of the life and fate of the wicked (Job 20:4) Job 20:1. Zophar, the twitterer, begins his reply to Job with impatient haste. Job's words, probably those found in chapter 19:2-3, and the last two verses, have made him angry. He boils over with indignation. He is ready now to confirm the testimony already given and wound the suffering servant of God still more. Job 20:4. He follows the same path and there is again nothing new in his argument. The description of the wicked is great; no fault can be found with what he says about those who

JOB 20. SECOND SPEECH OF ZOPHAR. Zophar helps the return to the wider problem by appearing once more with a strong doctrine as to the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked. His theme is, Sin brings its own reward. JOB 20:1. Zophar replies to Job's exasperating words (Job 19:1). In Job 20:2 b _mg._ is probably to be followed. In Job 20:3 b Duhm, on the basis of LXX, reads, and with wind void of understanding thou answerest me. JOB 20:4. The portion of the wicked. How short is his joy, how utter his destruction! In...

His insatiable greed shall be satisfied at last. God shall fill him full of his judgments....

E. POWERLESSNESS OF PROSPERITYNO ULTIMATE SECURITYZOPHAR'S WARNING (Job 20:1-29) TEXT 20:1-29 THEN ANSWERED ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE, AND SAID, _2_ Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me. 3 I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me. 4 Knowest thou _not_ this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth, 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment? 6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds; 7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he? 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night....