Job 21:7
What meaning of the job 21:7 in the Bible?
What does Job 21:7 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?"
What does Job 21:7 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?"
Verse Job 21:7. _WHEREFORE DO THE WICKED LIVE_] You have frequently asserted that the wicked are invariably punished in this life; and that the righteous are ever distinguished by the strongest marks...
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...
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...
_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...
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,...
_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; Ecclesiastes 8:11; Luke 2:35, end; Proverb...
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...
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...
מַדּ֣וּעַ רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִחְי֑וּ עָ֝תְק֗וּ גַּם ־גָּ֥בְרוּ חָֽיִל׃...
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...
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...
_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...
(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 yo...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
Job 21:7 wicked H7563 live H2421 (H8799) old H6275 (H8804) mighty H1396 (H8804) power H2428 Wherefore - Job 12:6; Psalms 17:10, Psalms 73:3-12; Jeremiah 12:1-3; Habakku
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...
_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’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 quot...
Daniel 4:17; Habakkuk 1:15; Habakkuk 1:16; Jeremiah 12:1; Job 12:6; Psalms 17:10; Psalms 37:35; Psalms 73:3; Revelation 13:2; Revelati