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Verse Job 21:20. _HIS EYES SHALL SEE HIS DESTRUCTION_] He shall
perceive its approach, and have the double punishment of _fearing_ and
_feeling; feeling_ a THOUSAND deaths in _fearing_ ONE.
_HE SHAL...
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HIS EYES SHALL SEE HIS DESTRUCTION - That is, his own eyes shall see
his destruction, or the calamities that shall come upon him. That is,
“You maintain that, or this is the position which you defend....
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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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The negative side of his theme is now illustrated by Job. In Job 21:7
he shewed that the wicked enjoy great, life-long prosperity; now he
shews that they are free from calamity; such sudden and disast...
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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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A conceivable objection, and its answer by Job. The verses read,
19. God (say ye) layeth up his iniquity for his children.
Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it;
20. Let his own e...
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LO, THEIR GOOD IS NOT IN THEIR HAND— After the foregoing elegant
description of the prosperity of some wicked men, Job proceeds, on the
other hand, to confess what was likewise apparent in the ways of...
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3. Sometimes they suffer, but not regularly. (Job 21:17-22)
TEXT 21:17-22
17 HOW OFT IS IT THAT THE LAMP OF THE WICKED IS PUT OUT?
That their calamity cometh upon them?
That _God_distributeth sorro...
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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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God mattered more to Job than anything else. But Job would still
complain about his situation. He agreed that God should punish evil
people. But Job did not realise when God will punish them. Job alre...
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HIS EYES SHALL SEE HIS DESTRUCTION. — This may be understood as the
continuation of Job’s suggested amendment of the Divine government.
“His own eyes should see his destruction, and he should drink of...
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יִרְא֣וּ _עֵינָ֣יו_† כִּידֹ֑ו וּ מֵ
חֲמַ֖ת שַׁדַּ֣י
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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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(k) His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the
wrath of the Almighty.
(k) When God recompenses his wickedness, he will know that his
prosperity was vanity....
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(14) Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not
the knowledge of thy ways. (15) What is the Almighty, that we should
serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?...
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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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HIS EYES SHALL SEE HIS DESTRUCTION,.... Or "should see his
destruction" b; calamities coming upon himself and upon his children;
or otherwise it will not affect him: but when a man has a personal
expe...
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His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of
the Almighty.
Ver. 20. _His eyes shall see his destruction_] His slaughter, saith
the Greek; his breaking to pieces, saith the C...
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_God layeth up_ Namely, in his treasures; _his iniquity _
Or rather, _the punishment of his iniquity;_ that is, He will punish
him both in his person and in his posterity. _His eyes shall see his
dest...
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His eyes, those of the wicked person, SHALL SEE HIS DESTRUCTION,
feeling the blow of the divine punishment, AND HE SHALL DRINK OF THE
WRATH OF THE ALMIGHTY, quaffing it like a bitter draught....
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JOB POINTS OUT THE DIFFERENCE IN CALAMITIES BEFALLING MEN...
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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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17-26 Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these
verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their
certain ruin in this life. He reconciles this to the holiness a...
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HIS EYES SHALL SEE HIS DESTRUCTION, i.e. he shall be destroyed; AS TO
SEE DEATH, is to die, PSALMS 89:48 HEBREWS 11:5; and _to see
affliction_, or _any kind of evil_, is to feel it Psalms 90:15...
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Job 21:20 eyes H5869 see H7200 (H8799) destruction H3589 drink H8354
(H8799) wrath H2534 Almighty H7706
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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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_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’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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Isaiah 51:17; Jeremiah 25:15; Jeremiah 25:16; Jeremiah 51:7; Job 27:
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See — He shall be destroyed; as to see death, is to die....