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See also Job 27:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WILL HE DELIGHT HIMSELF IN THE ALMIGHTY? - A truly pious man will delight himself in the Almighty. His supreme happiness will be found in God. He has pleasure in the contemplation of his existence, hi...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ALWAYS. continually....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The dreary and desolate condition of the mind of the wicked man in affliction....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _will he delight himself_?] Or, DOTH he delight himself? The wicked man has no consolation, no resource, in the manifold conditions of life when men need higher help than their own; he has no pleasure...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _WILL HE DELIGHT HIMSELF IN THE ALMIGHTY? WILL HE ALWAYS CALL UPON GOD?_ Alluding to Job 22:26. ALWAYS CALL - he may do so in times of prosperity, in order to be thought religious. But he will not,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WILL HE DELIGHT HIMSELF? — It is only the godly who can say, “Whom have I in heaven but Thee, and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison with Thee;” and again, “I will praise Thy name, b...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אִם ־עַל ־שַׁדַּ֥י יִתְעַנָּ֑ג יִקְרָ֖א אֱלֹ֣והַּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (8) For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? (9) Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? (10) Will he delight himself in the Almighty? w...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WILL HE DELIGHT HIMSELF IN THE ALMIGHTY?.... That is, the hypocrite; no, he will not; he may seem to delight in, him, but he does not truly and sincerely; not in him as the Almighty, or in his omnipot...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God? Ver. 10. _Will he delight himself in the Almighty?_] viz. When trouble cometh upon him, as in the former verse. No, this is _Chr...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Will he delight himself in the Almighty?_ When he has nothing else to delight in? No: his delight is in the things of the world, which now sink under him. _Will he always call upon God?_ Will he have...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God? There is no possibility of a trusting, joyful, loving fellowship between the ungodly person and God. Even when the heart of the b...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB'S AGAIN PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    In addition, the wicked will not delight in God nor will they continually call upon Him, thus demonstrating that they are ungodly. But Job is still calling upon God even in his distress....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-10 Job looked upon the condition of a hypocrite and a wicked man, to be most miserable. If they gained through life by their profession, and kept up their presumptuous hope till death, what would th...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Will he be able to delight and satisfy himself with God alone, and with his love and favour, when he hath no other matter of delight? This I now do, and this a hypocrite cannot do, because his heart i...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 27:10 delight H6026 (H8691) Almighty H7706 always H6256 call H7121 (H8799) God H433 delight -...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?_ THE PRIVATIONS OF GODNESSNESS I. He has no refuge in trouble. When “trouble cometh upon him” he cannot cry unto God with any hope of being heard...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Moreover Job continued his parable._ POINTS IN JOB’S PARABLE I. A solemn asseveration. “As God liveth.” The words imply a belief-- 1. In the reality of the Divine existence. Whilst some deny this...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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;...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 5:17; Acts 10:2; Ephesians 6:18; Habakkuk 3:18; J

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Delight — When he has nothing else to delight in? No: his delight is in the things of the world, which now sink under him. And those who do not delight in God, will not always, will not long, call upo...

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