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WILL HE DELIGHT HIMSELF IN THE ALMIGHTY? - A truly pious man will
delight himself in the Almighty. His supreme happiness will be found
in God. He has pleasure in the contemplation of his existence, hi...
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CHAPTER 27 JOB'S CLOSING WORDS IN SELF-VINDICATION
_ 1. My righteousness I hold fast (Job 27:1)_
2. The contrast between himself and the wicked (Job 27:7)
Job 27:1. Zophar, the third friend, no long...
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THIRD SPEECH OF ZOPHAR. He once more reiterates, in spite of all Job
has said, that the wicked shall perish. He bursts out Let mine enemy
be as God's enemy. I can wish him no worse doom. In Job 27:8 t...
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ALWAYS. continually....
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The dreary and desolate condition of the mind of the wicked man in
affliction....
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_will he delight himself_?] Or, DOTH he delight himself? The wicked
man has no consolation, no resource, in the manifold conditions of
life when men need higher help than their own; he has no pleasure...
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B. NO BELIEVERS ANONYMOUS,
I.E., NO UNIVERSAL SALVATION (Job 27:7-23)
TEXT 27:7-23
7 LET MINE ENEMY BE AS THE WICKED,
And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.
8 For what is th...
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JOB'S EIGHTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED)
1-6. Job protests that he is innocent.
Job 27:1 are an enlargement of what Job had previously said (Job
13:16) of his determination not to admit that he was being puni...
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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 27
JOB CONTINUES HIS LAST S...
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Job really loved God. Unlike wicked people, Job received pleasure from
God (Job 23:12). Unlike wicked people, Job prayed often (Job 1:5)....
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WILL HE DELIGHT HIMSELF? — It is only the godly who can say, “Whom
have I in heaven but Thee, and there is none upon earth that I desire
in comparison with Thee;” and again, “I will praise Thy name,
b...
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אִם ־עַל ־שַׁדַּ֥י יִתְעַנָּ֑ג
יִקְרָ֖א אֱלֹ֣והַּ...
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XXII.
THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS
Job 26:1; Job 27:1
Job SPEAKS
BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm.
"How hast thou helped one without power!
How hast thou saved the strengthless...
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THE JUSTICE OF GOD
Job 27:1
Zophar ought now to have taken up the discourse, but, as he is silent,
Job proceeds. First he renews _his protestations of integrity,_ Job
27:1. He denies the charge of be...
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There would seem to have been a pause after Job's answer to Bildad.
The suggestion is that he waited for Zophar, and seeing that Zophar
was silent, he took the initiative, and made general reply.
This...
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(8) For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when
God taketh away his soul? (9) Will God hear his cry when trouble
cometh upon him? (10) Will he delight himself in the Almighty? w...
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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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WILL HE DELIGHT HIMSELF IN THE ALMIGHTY?.... That is, the hypocrite;
no, he will not; he may seem to delight in, him, but he does not truly
and sincerely; not in him as the Almighty, or in his omnipot...
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Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
Ver. 10. _Will he delight himself in the Almighty?_] viz. When
trouble cometh upon him, as in the former verse. No, this is
_Chr...
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_Will he delight himself in the Almighty?_ When he has nothing else to
delight in? No: his delight is in the things of the world, which now
sink under him. _Will he always call upon God?_ Will he have...
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Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?
There is no possibility of a trusting, joyful, loving fellowship
between the ungodly person and God. Even when the heart of the
b...
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JOB'S AGAIN PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE...
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HOLDING FAST HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS
(vv.1-7)
In Chapter 26 Job answered Bildad fully. Bildad's last argument was
very brief, and after this Zophar had nothing at all to say. Job has
already won the debat...
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In addition, the wicked will not delight in God nor will they
continually call upon Him, thus demonstrating that they are ungodly.
But Job is still calling upon God even in his distress....
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7-10 Job looked upon the condition of a hypocrite and a wicked man, to
be most miserable. If they gained through life by their profession,
and kept up their presumptuous hope till death, what would th...
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Will he be able to delight and satisfy himself with God alone, and
with his love and favour, when he hath no other matter of delight?
This I now do, and this a hypocrite cannot do, because his heart i...
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Job 27:10 delight H6026 (H8691) Almighty H7706 always H6256 call H7121
(H8799) God H433
delight -...
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Remember that Job's friends had accused him of having committed some
great sin; which would account for his great sorrows. The good man is
naturally very indignant, and he uses the strongest possible...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad continued.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends.
CONCLUSION: The consideration of the miserable condition of the
hypocrite should engage us to be upright.
KEY WORD: Hypocr...
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Job 27:1. _Parable,_ equivalent to a wise, learned and conclusive
speech.
Job 27:2. _God hath taken away my judgment._ The old readings here are
preferable. The LXX, God judgeth me thus, or so heavily...
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_Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?_
THE PRIVATIONS OF GODNESSNESS
I. He has no refuge in trouble. When “trouble cometh upon him” he
cannot cry unto God with any hope of being heard...
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_Moreover Job continued his parable._
POINTS IN JOB’S PARABLE
I. A solemn asseveration. “As God liveth.” The words imply a
belief--
1. In the reality of the Divine existence. Whilst some deny this...
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_JOB’S REPLY TO THE FRIENDS IN GENERAL_
Job now alone in the field. Zophar, who should have followed Bildad,
and to whom Job had given opportunity to speak, has apparently nothing
to say. Job, therefo...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 27:1
This chapter divides itself into three distinct portions. In the
first, which extends to the end of Job 27:6, Job is engaged in
maintaining, with the utmost possible solemnity (ve...
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Job continued his answer and he said, As God lives, who has taken away
my judgment; and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul; All the while my
breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;...
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1 Thessalonians 5:17; Acts 10:2; Ephesians 6:18; Habakkuk 3:18; J
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Delight — When he has nothing else to delight in? No: his delight is
in the things of the world, which now sink under him. And those who do
not delight in God, will not always, will not long, call upo...