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Verse Job 21:22. _SHALL_ ANY _TEACH GOD KNOWLEDGE?_] Who among the
sons of men can pretend to teach GOD how to govern the world, who
himself teaches _those that are high_-the heavenly inhabitants, tha...
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SHALL ANY TEACH GOD KNOWLEDGE? - This commences the reply of Job to
the sentiments of his friends to which he had just adverted. The
substance of the reply is, that no one could prescribe to God how h...
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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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By insisting on a doctrine of providence which did not correspond to
God's providence as actually seen in facts, Job's friends were making
themselves wiser than God and becoming His teachers Will any...
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The emphasis falls on _God_Shall any teach knowledge unto God? The
principles of providence insisted on by the friends were not those
according to which God's actual providence was administered. They...
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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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This is like Job’s earlier words in Job 3:13-19. Job described well
the death of the body. But he did not describe what happened to the
men’s spirits. See Luke 16:19-26.
THE REPORTS OF TRAVELLERS...
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SHALL ANY TEACH GOD KNOWLEDGE? may be regarded as the hypothetical
reply of the antagonist. If the reader prefers to understand these
latter verses in any other way, it is open to him to do so, but in...
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הַ לְ אֵ֥ל יְלַמֶּד ־דָּ֑עַת וְ֝ ה֗וּא
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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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Shall [any] teach (l) God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are
high.
(l) Who sends to the wicked prosperity and punishes the godly....
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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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SHALL [ANY] TEACH GOD KNOWLEDGE?.... Who is a God of knowledge, and
knows all things, that teaches men knowledge; will any one take upon
him to teach him the path of judgment, and the way of understan...
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Shall [any] teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are
high.
Ver. 22. _Shall any teach God knowledge?_] None but a presumptuous
fool will take upon him to do that. Such as was Alphonso the...
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_Shall any teach God knowledge_ How to govern the world? For so you do
while you tell him that he must not afflict the godly, nor give the
wicked prosperity; that he must invariably punish the wicked,...
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Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing He judgeth those that are high,
the heavenly dignitaries, the angels themselves. How, then, can a mere
mortal presume to be the teacher of God?...
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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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"CAN ANYONE TEACH GOD KNOWLEDGE?" In the verses that follow Job notes
that there are wicked people who die in the prime of life (Job 21:23),
others die completely happy and content, while another die...
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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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KNOWLEDGE, i.e. discretion, or how to govern the world. For so you do,
whilst you tell him that he must not sorely afflict the godly, nor
give the wicked much and long prosperity here. HE JUDGETH THOS...
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Job 21:22 teach H3925 (H8762) God H410 knowledge H1847 judges H8199
(H8799) high H7311 (H8802)
teach -...
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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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_Shall any teach God knowledge?_
MENTAL INDEPENDENCE OF GOD
The mental independency of God involves two things--uninstructibleness
and irresponsibleness. The former in man is either a calamity or a
c...
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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 21:22 Since God is the judge of THOSE WHO ARE ON
HIGH, who are therefore unseen, the friends should be all the more
careful about claiming to understand what God’s purposes are, based...
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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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1 Corinthians 2:16; 1 Corinthians 6:3; 2 Peter 2:4; Ecclesiastes 5:8;...
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Teach — How to govern the world? For so you do, while you tell him
that he must not afflict the godly, nor give the wicked prosperity.
That he must invariably punish the wicked, and reward the righteo...