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Verse Job 27:13. _THIS_ IS _THE PORTION OF A WICKED MAN_] Job now
commences his promised teaching; and what follows is a description of
the _lot_ or _portion_ of the _wicked man_ and of _tyrants_. An...
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THIS IS THE PORTION OF A WICKED MAN WITH GOD - There has been much
diversity of view in regard to the remainder of this chapter. The
difficulty is, that Job seems here to state the same things which h...
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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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THIS IS THE PORTION, &C. Zophar thus takes up the words with which he
had concluded his second address (Job 20:29)....
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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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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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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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These words are like Zophar’s words in Job 20:29. And Job’s ideas
in verses 14-22 are also similar to Zophar’s ideas in chapter 20.
Job argued with his friends. But the friends were right about many...
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THIS IS THE PORTION OF A WICKED MAN. — Some have thought that the
remainder of this chapter, if not Job 28 also, constitutes the missing
third speech of Zophar, and that the usual words, “Then answere...
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זֶ֤ה ׀ חֵֽלֶק ־אָדָ֖ם רָשָׁ֥ע ׀ עִם
־אֵ֑ל וְֽ
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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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This [is] the (k) portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage
of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.
(k) Thus will God order the wicked, and punish him even to his
posterit...
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_Portion. This you have repeatedly asserted; and (Haydock) I
acknowledge it is generally, but not always, the case. (Calmet)_...
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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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THIS [IS] THE PORTION OF A WICKED MAN WITH GOD,.... Not to be punished
in this life, but after death. This is what Job undertook to teach his
friends, and is the purport of what follows in this chapte...
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This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of
oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.
Ver. 13. _This is the portion of a wicked man with God_] _q.d._ So ye
say,...
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_This is the portion of a wicked man_ Namely, that which is mentioned
in the following verses; _with God_ Either laid up with God, namely,
in his counsel and appointment; or, which he shall have from...
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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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Notice that God does deal with "tyrants". The wicked tyrant may have
many children, indicating that God does not always immediately cut off
the wicked in this life. Remember, Job has never denied that...
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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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THIS IS THE PORTION OF A WICKED MAN; that which is mentioned in the
following verses; in which Job delivers either,
1. The opinion of his friends, in whose person he utters them, and
afterwards decla...
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Job 27:13 portion H2506 wicked H7563 man H120 God H410 heritage H5159
oppressors H6184 received H3947 (H
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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—NOTE ON JOB 27:13 If Job’s integrity is actually what is true
WITH GOD, then Job’s friends ought to consider whether they are the
ones who stand in danger of the judgment that they have described....
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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 Peter 2:9; Ecclesiastes 8:13; Isaiah 3:11; James 5:4; Job 15:20;...