If it be not so now, to wit, as I have discoursed; if God doth not suffer wicked men to live long and prosperously in the world before he punisheth them; and if good men be not sometimes sorely afflicted there, if all things do not fall alike to all men in these matters.
Verse Job 24:25. _AND IF_ IT BE _NOT_ SO _NOW_] Job has proved by examples that the righteous are often oppressed; that the wicked often triumph over the just, that the impious are always wretched ev...
AND IF IT BE NOT SO NOW, WHO WILL MAKE ME A LIAR? - A challenge to anyone to prove the contrary to what he had said. Job had now attacked their main position, and had appealed to facts in defense of w...
CHAPTER S 23-24 JOB'S REPLY _ 1. O that I knew where I may find Him (Job 23:1)_ 2. Trusting yet doubting (Job 23:10) 3. Hath God failed? (Job 24:1) 4. Job's further testimony as to the wicked ...
JOB 24. This chapter has since Merx in 1871 been subjected to much criticism, the general trend of which has been to deny the whole or a considerable part of the chapter to Job. Peake, however, consid...
Job alas! is only too sure of his facts, and conscious that he has history and experience at his back he victoriously exclaims, Who will make me a liar? Job has gained his victory over his friends, b...
AND IF IT BE NOT SO NOW— _But since this is by no means the case at present, who,_ &c. See Houb. and Heath. REFLECTIONS.—1st. The argument in dispute is, whether the wicked were not always pursued wi...
c. The unhappy fate of the wicked (Job 24:18-25) TEXT 24:18-25 18 SWIFTLY THEY _PASS AWAY_ UPON THE FACE OF THE WATERS; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the viney...
_HE DRAWETH ALSO THE MIGHTY WITH HIS POWER: HE RISETH UP, AND NO MAN IS SURE OF LIFE._ Reply of Job to the opinions of the friends. Experience proves the contrary. Translate, 'But He (God) prolongeth...
JOB'S SEVENTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-25. Job continues to express his perplexity at the ways of Providence in the ordering of the world. The poor and the weak suffer; violence and wrong go unpunished....
'Who can dispute my contention?'...
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 24 JOB CONTINUES HIS SPEECH...
God decides how long a person will live. And God decides when these wicked people will die. A wicked man may be powerful. And nobody may dare to oppose that man. But when God acts, that man will die....
AND IF IT BE NOT SO NOW. — Job also has his facts, as ready and as incontrovertible as those of his friends, and yet irreconcilable with theirs....
וְ אִם ־לֹ֣א אֵ֭פֹו מִ֣י יַכְזִיבֵ֑נִי וְ
XX. WHERE IS ELOAH? Job 23:1; Job 24:1 Job SPEAKS THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind. "Again today, my plain...
NOT HERE, BUT HEREAFTER Job 24:1 Job laments that the times of punishment are not so explained by God, that those who know Him may see and understand His reasons. He then turns to describe the life o...
Passing from the personal aspect of his problem, Job considered it in its wider application. He asked the reason of God's noninterference, and then proceeded to describe the evidences of it. Men still...
And if [it be] not (z) [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? (z) That is, contrary to your reasoning no man can give perfect reasons for God's judgments, let me be repr...
_And set. Septuagint and Protestants, "and make my speech nothing worth." (Haydock) --- This conclusion come frequently, chap. ix. 15., and xvii. 15. Job defies his friends to shew the fallacy of his...
(25) And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? Job having finished his sermon, demands of his friends to confront it if they could. The man of Uz, it is evide...
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...
AND IF [IT BE] NOT [SO] NOW,.... If this is not the case of men of such wicked lives as above described, do not prosper in the world, and increase in riches, and do not pass through the world with imp...
And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? Ver. 25. _And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar?_] _Quis ementietur me?_ Who shall disprove or confu...
_And if it be not so now_ Namely, as I have discoursed; if God does not often suffer wicked men to live long and prosperously in the world, before he punishes them; and if good men be not sometimes so...
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, convicting him of falsehood, AND MAKE MY SPEECH NOTHING WORTH? Job very emphatically expresses his conviction that he now had the advantage of his opp...
Other Cases seem to Support Job's Idea...
DOES GOD FAIL TO GOVERN PROPERLY? (vv.1-12) "Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? Why do not they who know Him see His days?" (v.1 - JND trans.) Job wonders why God (who is Almighty) do...
Here is the challenge to prove him wrong. Job's problem seems to be that God even allow the wicked to prosper for. short time. Job had forgotten about God's desire for all men to repent (2 Peter 3:9)....
18-25 Sometimes how gradual is the decay, how quiet the departure of a wicked person, how is he honoured, and how soon are all his cruelties and oppressions forgotten! They are taken off with other m...
Job 24:25 Now H645 prove H7760 (H8799) liar H3576 (H8686) make H7760 (H8799) speech H4405 nothing...
Job 24:1. _Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?_ «Why do they live so long? Why do they appear to have such prosperity?» Job 24:2. Some remove...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. The prosperity of the wicked. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: Though wicked men seem sometimes to be under the special protection of divine providence, e...
Job 24:3. _They drive away the ass of the fatherless._ In Job's time there was no regular government or empire, to bring neighbouring tyrants to justice; proof sufficient that this book is of the high...
_Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty._ GREAT CRIMES NOT ALWAYS FOLLOWED BY GREAT PUNISHMENT IN THIS LIFE I. Great crimes have prevailed on the earth from the earliest times. Amongst t...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:1 Job wishes that God’s plans for the world and for Job would be more apparent. ⇐ ⇔...
_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ Prosecutes his own view of the Divine government. Enlarges on the crimes of one part of men and the sufferings of another as the consequences of them, to shew...
EXPOSITION The general subject of this chapter is the prosperity of the wicked, whose proceedings and their results are traced out in detail (Job 24:2). A single note of perplexity (Job 24:1) forms a...
Now, why, seeing the times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? Some [now you've accused me of these things, but there are some] that remove the landmarks; and vio...
Job 11:2; Job 11:3; Job 15:2; Job 9:24...