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Verse Job 27:17. _THE JUST SHALL PUT_ IT _ON_] Money is God's
property. "The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord;"
and though it may be abused for a time by unrighteous hands, God, in...
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THE JUST SHALL PUT IT ON - The righteous shall wear it. It shall pass
out of the hands of him who prepared it, into the hands of others. The
meaning is, that the wicked, though they become rich, would...
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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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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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When the ungodly are swept away the righteous remain and enter into
their possessions, and the meek inherit the earth, Psalms 37:29;
Psalms 37:34....
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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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When the wicked man dies, other people will receive his possessions.
It is as if God is storing these possessions to give to other people....
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יָ֭כִין וְ צַדִּ֣יק יִלְבָּ֑שׁ וְ֝
כֶ֗סֶף נָק
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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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(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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HE MAY PREPARE [IT],.... Raiment; beginning with that first which was
mentioned last, which is frequent in the Hebrew and eastern languages;
such things may be done, and often are, by wicked men:
BUT...
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He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent
shall divide the silver.
Ver. 17. _He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on._] Well may
he prepare it, so Broughton. Let t...
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_Prepare raiment as the clay_ In great abundance. _But the just shall
put it on_ Either because it shall be given to him by the magistrate,
to recompense him for those injuries which he had received f...
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he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, for he will enter
into the heritage of the godless, AND THE INNOCENT SHALL DIVIDE THE
SILVER, Cf Psalms 37:29; Ecclesiastes 2:16....
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Belief in the Final Destruction of the Ungodly....
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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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What ungodly men have accumulated does often end up in the hands of
godly people (Psalms 39:6; Proverbs 13:22). Note, this does not mean
that one godly person gets everything that one wicked man had....
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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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Job 27:17 pile H3559 (H8686) just H6662 wear H3847 (H8799) innocent
H5355 divide H2505 (H8799) silver...
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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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_Though he heap up silver as the dust._
HOARDING
I. The wicked hoarding their wealth. They “heap up silver as the
dust.” As a rule, this is the grand work of wicked men on the earth.
On it they conc...
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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’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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Ecclesiastes 2:26; Proverbs 13:22; Proverbs 28:8...