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Verse Job 27:20. _TERRORS TAKE HOLD ON HIM AS WATERS_] They come upon
him as an irresistible flood; and he is overwhelmed as by a tempest in
the night, when darkness partly hides his danger, and depri...
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TERRORS-TAKE HOLD ON HIM AS WATERS - That is, as suddenly and
violently as angry floods; compare the notes at Job 18:14.
A TEMPEST STEALETH HIM AWAY - He is suddenly cut off by the wrath of
God. A tem...
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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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The utter destruction of the wicked man is exhibited in three turns:
his children and descendants are destined for the sword, and become
the prey of famine and pestilence (Job 27:13); his wealth and
p...
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The figure of overwhelming waters is a natural one in the East and
common in Scripture, Psalms 18:16; Nahum 1:8. Comp. the language of
Eliphaz to Job, ch. Job 22:11....
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The disastrous fate of the wicked man at the hand of God.
Job 27:7-10 drew a contrast between the internal state of the mind of
the speaker and that of the sinner; in these verses the contrast is
pur...
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TERRORS TAKE HOLD ON HIM, &C.— See Proverbs 10:25. The meaning of
the high metaphors in these verses is, that he dieth, as most wicked
men do, in the utmost terror, tumult, and confusion....
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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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_I WILL TEACH YOU BY THE HAND OF GOD: THAT WHICH IS WITH THE ALMIGHTY
WILL I NOT CONCEAL._
These words are contrary to Job's previous sentiments (notes, Job
21:22; Job 24:22). They therefore seem to b...
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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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In Job 3:16-19, Job thought that death is like sleep. But in Job 26:5,
Job had a different idea. He described how people tremble painfully in
hell. So perhaps in verses 19-23, Job was also describing...
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תַּשִּׂיגֵ֣הוּ כַ֭ † מַּיִם
בַּלָּהֹ֑ות לַ֝֗יְלָה גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ
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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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(11) В¶ I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the
Almighty will I not conceal. (12) Behold, all ye yourselves have seen
it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? (13) This is the por...
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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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TERRORS TAKE HOLD ON HIM AS WATERS,.... The terrors of death, and of
an awful judgment that is to come after it; finding himself dying,
death is the king of terrors to him, dreading not only the awful...
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Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the
night.
Ver. 20. _Terrors take hold on him as waters_] Abundantly, suddenly,
irresistibly; he is even swallowed up by them and ov...
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_Terrors take hold on him_ From the sense of approaching death or
judgment. _As waters_ As violently and irresistibly as a river
breaking its banks, or a deluge of waters bears down all before it. _A...
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Belief in the Final Destruction of the Ungodly....
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Terrors take hold on him as waters, the fear of death comes upon him
like the torrents of an overflowing stream; A TEMPEST STEALETH HIM
AWAY IN THE NIGHT, a sudden gust of the violent east wind carrie...
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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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"As in verse 19, calamity calls him from his night chambers. The
wicked man is haunted by terrors night and day (Isaiah 28:17; Hosea
5:10; Amos 5:24)" _(Strauss p. 267)._...
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11-23 Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of
wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job
considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their
death...
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TERRORS TAKE HOLD ON HIM, from the sense of his approaching death or
judgment. AS WATERS; either,
1. In abundance, one terror after another. Or,
2. Violently and irresistibly, as a river breaking it...
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Job 27:20 Terrors H1091 overtake H5381 (H8686) flood H4325 tempest
H5492 away H1589 (H8804) night H3915
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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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_I will teach you by the hand of God._
GOD’S TREATMENT OF WICKED MEN
Looking at Job’s lecture or address, we have to notice two things.
I. Its introduction. The eleventh and twelfth verses may be r...
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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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2 Kings 19:35; Daniel 5:30; Exodus 12:29; Job 15:21; Job 18:11;...
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Terrors — From the sense of approaching death or judgment. Waters
— As violently and irresistibly, as a river breaking its banks, or
deluge of waters bears down all before it. A tempest — God's wrath...