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Verse Job 27:14. _IF HIS CHILDREN BE MULTIPLIED_] As numerous families
were supposed to be a proof of the benediction of the Almighty, Job
shows that this is not always the case; for the offspring of...
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IF HIS CHILDREN BE MULTIPLIED, IT IS FOR THE SWORD - That is, they
shall be slain in war. The first calamities which it is here said
would come upon a man, relate to his family Job 27:14; the next are...
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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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CHILDREN. sons....
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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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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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With the sentiment of this verse compare Job's former words in regard
to the wicked, "Their seed is established in their sight with them,
and their offspring before their eyes. They send forth their l...
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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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Perhaps Job thought that these children would be as evil as their
father. Or perhaps Job thought that the children would suffer because
of their father’s evil deeds. The Bible teaches that God will pu...
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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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אִם ־יִרְבּ֣וּ בָנָ֣יו לְמֹו ־חָ֑רֶב
וְ֝ צֶאֱ
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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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CHAPTER XXVII.
_ Bread. Septuagint, "if they grow up to manhood, they shall beg,"
Psalm xxxvi 25. (Haydock)_...
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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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IF HIS CHILDREN BE MULTIPLIED,.... As it is possible they may; this is
one external blessing common to good men and bad men. Haman, that
proud oppressor, left ten sons behind him, and wicked Ahab had...
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If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his
offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Ver. 14. _If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword_] As
were Ahab's seventy sons,...
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_It is for the sword_ That they may be cut off by the sword, either of
war or of justice: _and his offspring_, &c. Shall be starved, or shall
want necessaries. _Those that remain of him_ Who survive t...
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If his children be multiplied, their great number being considered a
proof of the divine blessing, IT IS FOR THE SWORD, that being the
first great scourge in the hand of God; AND HIS OFFSPRING SHALL N...
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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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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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IT IS FOR THE SWORD; that they may be cut off by the sword, either of
war or of justice. SHALL NOT BE SATISFIED WITH BREAD; shall be
starved, or want necessaries. A figure called _meiosis_....
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Job 27:14 children H1121 multiplied H7235 (H8799) for H3926 sword
H2719 offspring H6631 satisfied H7646 (H8799) bread...
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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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_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;...