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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Job 21:27

I know your thoughts; I perceive what you think, and will object, and say for your own defence. The devices, or, evil thoughts; for so this word is oft used, as Proverbs 12:2 Proverbs 14:17 Job 24:8 Isaiah 32:7. Wrongfully imagine, or wrest, or violently force. For they strained both Job's words, and their own thoughts, which were biassed by their prejudice and passion against Job. Against me; for I know very well that your discourses, though they be of wicked men in the general, yet are particularly levelled at me.

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See also Job 21:27 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • 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,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job knows the covert meaning that lies under his friends" talk of the fate of the wicked man....

  • 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

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  • 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

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֵ֣ן יָ֭דַעְתִּי מַחְשְׁבֹֽותֵיכֶ֑ם וּ֝ מְזִמֹּ֗ות עָלַ֥י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Me. I perceive you are not convinced; and what you say respecting the wicked, is pointed at me. (Menochius)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Job Rebukes his Friends for their One-Sidedness....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, I know your thoughts, Job knows the plans of their hearts, AND THE DEVICES, the careful reasonings, the schemes, WHICH YE WRONGFULLY IMAGINE AGAINST ME, doing violence to him by trying to forc...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 21:27 know H3045 (H8804) thoughts H4284 schemes H4209 wrong H2554 (H8799) I know - Job 4:8-11

  • 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

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  • 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

    1 Peter 2:19; Job 15:20; Job 20:29; Job 20:5; Job 32:3;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Me — I know that your discourses, though they be of wicked, men in general, yet are particularly levelled at me....

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