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Verse Job 21:24. _HIS BREASTS ARE FULL OF MILK_] The word
עטיניו _atinaiv_, which occurs nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible,
is most likely an _Arabic_ term, but probably so _provincial_ as to be
now l...
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HIS BREASTS - Margin, “milk pails.” The marginal translation is
much the most correct, and it is difficult to understand why so
improbable a statement has been introduced into our common version.
But...
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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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BREASTS. skin bottles....
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_His breasts are full of milk_ Perhaps, HIS VESSELS are full of milk;
but the meaning is uncertain, the word rendered "breasts" not
occurring again. The word however has analogies in the cognate
langu...
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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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_HIS BREASTS ARE FULL OF MILK, AND HIS BONES ARE MOISTENED WITH
MARROW._
Breasts - rather, skins or vessels for fluids (Lee). But Umbreit has
'stations or resting-places of his herds near water:' in...
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21:24 fat, (e-6) Or 'his vessels are full of milk.'...
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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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BREASTS] mg. 'milk-pails.'
AND HIS BONES, etc.] RV 'And the marrow of his bones is moistened': he
is strengthened and refreshed.
27-34. Job says he knows that the friends' remarks are aimed at him....
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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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HIS BREASTS. — This is an uncertain word, occurring only here. Some
understand it literally of _milk-pails,_ others of the lacteals of the
human body, which certainly suits the parallelism better....
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עֲ֭טִינָיו מָלְא֣וּ חָלָ֑ב וּ מֹ֖חַ
עַצְמֹותָ֣יו...
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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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_Bowels. Protestants, "breasts" (Marginal note, "milk-pails") are full
of milk. But the Septuagint, Bochart, &c., agree with the Vulgate. Job
describes a corpulent man (Calmet) living in luxury, like...
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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 BREASTS ARE FULL OF MILK,.... As this is not literally true of
men, some versions read the words otherwise; his bowels or intestines
are full of fat, as the Vulgate Latin and Septuagint; and other...
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His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Ver. 24. _His breasts are full of milk, and his bones, &c._] He is
well lined within, as we say, having abundance of good blood...
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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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BREASTS:
Or, milk pails...
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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 BREASTS: the Hebrew word is not elsewhere used, and therefore it
is diversely translated; either, 1. _Breasts_. But that seems very
improper here, because men's breasts do not use to be filled wit...
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Job 21:24 pails H5845 full H4390 (H8804) milk H2461 marrow H4221 bones
H6106 moist H8248 (H8792)
His bre
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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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Job 15:27; Proverbs 3:8; Psalms 17:10...