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Verse Job 21:8. _THEIR SEED IS ESTABLISHED_] They see their own
_children_ grow up, and become settled in the land; and behold their
_children's children_ also; so that their generations are not cut o...
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THEIR SEED - Their children - their posterity.
IS ESTABLISHED IN THEIR SIGHT - Around them, where they may often see
them - where they may enjoy their society. The friends of Job had
maintained, with...
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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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They have the additional felicity of seeing their children grow up
beside them a pathetic touch from the hand of the man whose sons had
been taken from him....
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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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MARK ME, AND BE ADMONISHED, &C.— The coldest reader cannot be
insensible of the beauties of the poetry in this speech of Job. We
will not, therefore, attempt to point them out, but attend to the
threa...
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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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_THEIR SEED IS ESTABLISHED IN THEIR SIGHT WITH THEM, AND THEIR
OFFSPRING BEFORE THEIR EYES._
In opposition to Job 18:19; Job 5:4; Jeremiah 12:1; Psalms
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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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Unlike Job, who had lost all his children at a stroke....
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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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Job described the good lives of some evil people.
Previously, Job had lived a good life like this. He had many animals.
And he had many children. And Job’s own children enjoyed their
parties. Job was...
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THEIR SEED IS ESTABLISHED IN THEIR SIGHT. — Not only are they mighty
in power themselves, but they leave their power to their children
after them (comp. Psalms 17:14). This contradicts what Eliphaz ha...
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זַרְעָ֤ם נָכֹ֣ון לִ פְנֵיהֶ֣ם עִמָּ֑ם
וְ֝ צֶא
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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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_Sight. The Jews esteemed this as the greatest blessing and mark of
God's favour. Yet it was also equivocal, as it was often possessed by
the wicked. (Calmet)_...
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(8) Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their
offspring before their eyes. (9) Their houses are safe from fear,
neither is the rod of God upon them. (10) Their bull gendereth, and...
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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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THEIR SEED IS ESTABLISHED IN THEIR SIGHT WITH THEM,.... Which is to be
understood not of seed sown in the earth, and of the permanence and
increase of that, but of their children; to have a numerous p...
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Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their
offspring before their eyes.
Ver. 8. _Their seed is established in their sight with them_] Some
understand it of their seed sown in the f...
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Their seed is established in their sight with them; their posterity,
their children, endure, they remain, they surround the wicked, so that
the latter have the benefit and the enjoyment of their compa...
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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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Their children are not cut off (Job 20:26), rather they watch their
children grow up and mature....
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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 SEED; either,
1. The fruits of their ground; or rather,
2. Their children; as it is explained in the next branch of the verse,
the words both here and there used being commonly so understood....
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Job 21:8 descendants H2233 established H3559 (H8737) sight H6440
offspring H6631 eyes H5869
Job 5:3-4
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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...