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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Job 21:30

that the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction, held back, spared in the day of ruin? They shall be brought forth to the day of wrath, led away from the overflowing wrath, taken beyond its reach. Job's argument is that the wicked must indeed die like every other person, but that he is spared all the misfortune of life, that he is happy to the day of his death.

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See also Job 21:30 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 21:30. _THAT THE WICKED IS RESERVED TO THE DAY OF_ _DESTRUCTION?_] Though every one can tell that he has seen the wicked in prosperity, and even spend a long life in it; yet this is no proo...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THAT THE WICKED IS RESERVED TO THE DAY OF DESTRUCTION? - He is not punished, as you maintain, at once. He is “kept” with a view to future punishment; and though calamity will certainly overtake him at...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THAT. Supply _Ellipsis_ (App-6) before "That". "[They say] that". See translation below....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _they shall be brought forth to_ Rather, THEY ARE LED FORTH IN, i. e. led away in safety from the destroying wrath, parallel to "spared" or withholden, in the first clause; cf. Isaiah 55:12 (_led fort...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Travellers give a different account of the fate of the wicked; they tell that he is spared in the day of destruction: 29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way, And do ye not regard their tokens,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Finally, still pursuing his argument, Job turns to the insinuations of his friends against himself, which lie under their descriptions of the fate of the wicked. He knows what they mean when they say,...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEHOLD, I KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS— By the _day of destruction,_ and _the day of wrath,_ mentioned in the 30th verse, I believe it will appear, from the context, can be meant no other than the future day of...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    5. So, your argument that I am wicked because I suffer is false. (Job 21:27-34) TEXT 21:27-34 27 BEHOLD, I KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me. 28 For ye say, Where is...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THAT THE WICKED IS RESERVED TO THE DAY OF DESTRUCTION? THEY SHALL BE BROUGHT FORTH TO THE DAY OF WRATH._ Their testimony (referring perhaps to those who had visited the region where Abraham, who enjo...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Perhaps Job’s friends did not know any evil people who were successful. Today we often read about such people in the newspapers. Then, people would hear the news from travellers....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (30-33) THAT THE WICKED.... — These verses contain the result of their experience....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י לְ יֹ֣ום אֵ֭יד יֵחָ֣שֶׂךְ רָ֑ע לְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    That the wicked is reserved to the day of (r) destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. (r) Though the wicked flourish here, yet God will punish him in the last day....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _To the. He will be requited indeed, at last; or rather, when others are in the utmost danger, he will be protected as it were by God. Septuagint, (Calmet) or Theodotion, "the wicked is kept on high,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (27) В¶ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. (28) For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? (29) H...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THAT THE WICKED IS RESERVED TO THE DAY OF DESTRUCTION?.... That is, that they are spared, withheld, restrained, as the word d signifies, or kept and preserved from many calamities and distresses, whic...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. Ver. 30. _That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction?_] Here is the passenger's verd...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Have ye not asked them that go by the way?_ In these verses we have an answer to the preceding question; as if he had said, Even the travellers that pass along the road can inform you: it is so vulga...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THE DAY OF WRATH: _ Heb._ the day of wraths...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Yes the wicked man will be judged, but he is not judged "immediately", he is reserved for the day of calamity....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    27-34 Job opposes the opinion of his friends, That the wicked are sure to fall into visible and remarkable ruin, and none but the wicked; upon which principle they condemned Job as wicked. Turn to wh...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THAT THE WICKED, & c. this is the thing which they might learn of passengers. RESERVED; or, _withheld_, or _kept back_, to wit, from falling into common calamities, though in truth he be not so much k...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 21:30 wicked H7451 reserved H2820 (H8735) day H3117 doom H343 out H2986 (H8714) day H3117 wrath...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 21:1 Job’s response closes the second cycle of the dialogue with his friends. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 2:9; 2 Peter 3:7; Job 20:28; Jude 1:13; Nahum 1:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    They — He speaks of the same person; only the singular number is changed into the plural, possibly to intimate, that altho' for the present only some wicked men were punished, yet then all of them sho...

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