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Verse Job 21:23. _ONE DIETH IN HIS FULL STRENGTH_] In this and the
three following verses Job shows that the inequality of fortune,
goods, health, strength, c., decides nothing either for or against...
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ONE DIETH IN HIS FULL STRENGTH - Margin, “very perfection,” or,
“in the strength of his perfection.” The meaning is, that he dies
in the very prime and vigor of life, surrounded with everything that
c...
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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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_in his full strength_ lit. _in his very perfection_, or completeness,
meaning, in the full enjoyment of all that made his lot _complete_,
wanting nothing as the second clause explains....
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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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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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4. The only equality is to be found in death. (Job 21:23-26)
TEXT 21:23-26
23 ONE DIETH IN HIS FULL STRENGTH,
Being wholly at ease and quiet:
24 His pails are full of milk,
And the marrow of his...
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_ONE DIETH IN HIS FULL STRENGTH, BEING WHOLLY AT EASE AND QUIET._
Literally, in the bone х_ `ETSEM_ (H6106)] of his perfection - i:e.,
the full strength of unimpaired prosperity (Umbreit)....
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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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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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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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ONE DIETH. — Job enlarges on the inequality of human fate, showing
that death is the only equaliser....
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זֶ֗ה יָ֭מוּת בְּ עֶ֣צֶם תֻּמֹּ֑ו
כֻּ֝לֹּ֗ו שׁ
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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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One (m) dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
(m) Meaning, the wicked....
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_Hale, or healthy. Hebrew, "in perfect strength." (Haydock) ---
Septuagint, "simplicity, or folly." St. Augustine reads with the old
Vulgate, "in the strength of his simplicity, (Calmet) or innocence....
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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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ONE DIETH IN HIS FULL STRENGTH,.... Man is born a weak feeble
creature, and it is by degrees, and through various stages of infancy,
childhood, and youth, that he arrives to his full strength in manho...
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One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Ver. 23. _One dieth in his full strength_] _Iste moritur,_ There is
one dieth in his very perfections; or, in the strength of his
perfe...
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_One dieth in his full strength_ In a state of perfect health, and
strength, and prosperity; all which this phrase implies. _His breasts
are full of milk_ The Hebrew word, עשׂין, _gnatin_, here render...
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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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IN HIS FULL STRENGTH:
_ Heb._ in his very perfection, or in the strength of his perfection...
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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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ONE, to wit, either,
1. One of these wicked men, of whose condition he is here speaking.
Or,
2. Any one man, whether good or bad. In his full strength; in a state
of perfect health, and strength, an...
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Job 21:23 dies H4191 (H8799) full H8537 strength H6106 ease H7946
secure H7961
in his full strength - Heb. in his very perfection, or, the strength
of his perfection,...
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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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_One dieth in his full strength. .. Another dieth in the bitterness of
his soul._
PROVIDENCE VINDICATED AGAINST THE SUPERFICIAL OBSERVER
That which hampers men most in understanding providence is its...
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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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Job 20:22; Job 20:23; Luke 12:19; Psalms 49:17; Psalms 73:4;...