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Verse Job 21:16. _THEIR GOOD_ IS _NOT IN THEIR HAND_] With all their
boasting and self-dependence, God only _lends_ them his bounty; and
though it appears to be their own, yet it is at his disposal....
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LO, THEIR GOOD IS NOT IN THEIR HAND - Schultens, Rosenmuller, and
Noyes, suppose, I think, correctly, that this is to be understood
ironically, or as referring to what “they” had maintained. “Lo!
you...
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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...
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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...
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Finally Job adverts to the mystery: this prosperity of theirs does not
depend upon themselves, it is not of their own making; it comes from
another, from God. God prospers the wicked, and Job had else...
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This great mystery of the prosperity of the wicked in God's providence
Job now unfolds on both its sides: first, they and all belonging to
them prosper, and they die in peace, although in conscious go...
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The mystery is, Why do the wicked prosper? They live long, they see
their children grow up, and their homes are peaceful (Job 21:7). Their
cattle thrives (Job 21:10). Their children and they pass a mi...
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LO, THEIR GOOD IS NOT IN THEIR HAND— After the foregoing elegant
description of the prosperity of some wicked men, Job proceeds, on the
other hand, to confess what was likewise apparent in the ways of...
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2. The wicked enjoy great peace and plenty. (Job 21:7-16)
TEXT 21:7-16
7 WHEREFORE DO THE WICKED LIVE,
Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
8 Then- seed is established with them in their sight,...
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_LO, THEIR GOOD IS NOT IN THEIR HAND: THE COUNSEL OF THE WICKED IS FAR
FROM ME._
Not in their hand - but in the hand of God. This is Job's difficulty,
that God, who has sinners' prosperity (good) in...
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21:16 prosperity (a-3) Or 'happiness,' lit. 'good,' as ver. 25....
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LO, THEIR GOOD, etc.] It may mean, They cannot control their fortunes:
it must be God who has prospered them. IS FAR] rather, 'be far.' Job
repudiates the devices of sinners. Possibly the whole v. is...
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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...
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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 21
JOB REPLIES TO ZOPHAR’S...
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LO, THEIR GOOD (_i.e.,_ their prosperity) IS NOT IN THEIR OWN HAND.
— And that constitutes the mystery of it, for it is God who gives it
to them; or the words may be a hypothetical answer to his state...
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הֵ֤ן לֹ֣א בְ יָדָ֣ם טוּבָ֑ם עֲצַ֥ת
רְ֝שָׁעִ֗י
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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Lo, their good [is] not in their (h) hand: the counsel of the wicked
(i) is far from me.
(h) It is not their own, but God only lends it to them.
(i) God keep me from their prosperity....
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Because, is not in Hebrew. "Lo, their good is not." They are not
possessed of true riches, or of good sense. Alexandrian Septuagint,
"For good things were in their hands: but the works of the impious...
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(14) Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not
the knowledge of thy ways. (15) What is the Almighty, that we should
serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?...
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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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LO, THEIR GOOD [IS] NOT IN THEIR HAND,.... Though it is in their
possession for the present, it is not in the power of their hands to
keep, nor to carry it with them when they die; God, that gave it,...
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_Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is
far from me._
Ver. 16. _Lo, their good is not in their hand_] That is, they are not
enriched by their own industry, prudence, piet...
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_Lo, their good is not in their hand_ These words, says Chappelow,
will be more consistent with what goes before, if read with an
interrogation; namely, Lo, is not their good in their hand? that is,
I...
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Lo, their god is not in their hand! Their prosperity, as Job contends,
surely cannot be a matter of their own power; God must in some way be
connected with it, a fact which makes the solution of the p...
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JOB POINTS OUT THE DIFFERENCE IN CALAMITIES BEFALLING MEN...
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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...
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"BEHOLD, THEIR PROSPERITY IS NOT IN THEIR HAND": Job does not go off
the deep end, he does not envy the wicked, he realizes that God has
allowed them to prosper and they are well off in spite of their...
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7-16 Job says, Remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon
notorious sinners, but not always. Wherefore is it so? This is the day
of God's patience; and, in some way or other, he makes use of the...
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THEIR GOOD IS NOT IN THEIR HAND: this seems to be an answer to the
foregoing question, and a confutation of that ungodly opinion and
practice, JOB 21:14,15. Wicked men (saith he) have no reason to
neg...
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Job 21:16 prosperity H2898 hand H3027 counsel H6098 wicked H7563 far
H7368 (H8804)
Lo - Job 1:21,...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 21:1 Job’s response closes the second cycle of the
dialogue with his friends.
⇐ ⇔...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 21:7 Job argues that, contrary to what his friends
have been saying (e.g., Job 18:5), the WICKED often prosper and their
OFFSPRING
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Lo — But wicked men have no reason to reject God, because of their
prosperity, for their wealth, is not in their hand; neither obtained,
nor kept by their own might, but only by God's power and favour...