Verse Job 12:6. _THE TABERNACLES OF ROBBERS PROSPER._] Those who live by the plunder of their neighbours are often found in great secular prosperity; and they that provoke God by impiety and blasphem...
THE TABERNACLES OF ROBBERS PROSPER - The tents or dwellings of robbers are safe and secure. This is Job’s original proposition, to which he all along adheres. It is, that God does not deal with people...
CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...
Eliphaz had appealed to revelation, Bildad to the wisdom of the ancients, Zophar assumes that he himself is the oracle of God's wisdom. Job answers this assumption. Firstly Zophar is not the only wise...
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The other side of the picture, the peace of the wicked. _into whose hand God bringeth abundantly_ The words might also mean: _they who carry_(_their) god in their hand_, the idea being that their god...
INTO WHOSE HAND GOD BRINGETH ABUNDANTLY— _Those who provoke God, enjoy in security whatever God pleases to bestow upon them._...
G. COURAGEOUS CONFRONTATIONJOB'S RESPONSE (Job 12:1, Job 14:22) 1. He ridicules the wisdom and judgment of his friends. (Job 12:1-6) TEXT 12:1-6 12 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 No doubt but ye ar...
_THE TABERNACLES OF ROBBERS PROSPER, AND THEY THAT PROVOKE GOD ARE SECURE; INTO WHOSE HAND GOD BRINGETH ABUNDANTLY._ The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure. Job show...
12:6 bringeth. (h-19) Others read 'who carry +God in their hand.'...
JOB'S THIRD SPEECH (JOB 12-14) The friends have said God is wise and mighty. Job replies, 'I know that as well as you. You infer that He is also righteous, but experience shows that His power and wisd...
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 12 JOB REPLIES TO ZOPHAR’S...
Many evil people do not seem to suffer. Job thought that this was God’s plan. Job saw that birds and animals also suffer troubles without any reason. But this was not in fact God’s plan for the world....
INTO WHOSE HAND GOD BRINGETH ABUNDANTLY. — Some understand these words, _to him that bringeth his god in his hand_ (comp. Habakkuk 1:11; Habakkuk 1:16); but the other seems more in accordance with the...
יִשְׁלָ֤יוּ אֹֽהָלִ֨ים ׀ לְ שֹׁ֥דְדִ֗ים וּֽ֭ בַטֻּחֹות...
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
“GOD'S PATHS IN DEEP WATERS” Job 12:1 Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness invariably causes insecurity in men's dwellings; and in doing so he bitterly complains that his...
Job's last reply in this first cycle is to the whole argument, as well as to Zophar's application of it. From beginning to end, it thrills with sarcasm, while it maintains its denial of personal guilt...
_Abound. Hebrew, "are at peace." (Calmet) --- The prosperity of the wicked is therefore no proof that they are pleasing to him. (Haydock) --- All nature testifies that God exercises a sovereign domini...
(1) В¶ And Job answered and said, (2) No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. (3) But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such th...
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...
THE TABERNACLES OF ROBBERS PROSPER,.... Such as the Chaldeans and Sabeans, who had robbed Job of his substance, and filled their houses with the spoils of others, and lived in the greatest fulness and...
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly]. Ver. 6. _The tabernacles of robbers prosper_] By robbers here understand all such...
_The tabernacles of robbers prosper_ Job's friends had all supposed that wicked men cannot prosper long in the world. This Job opposes, and maintains that God herein acts as sovereign, and reserves th...
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, powerful tyrants, men who make it a practise to spoil others, live in safety, AND THEY THAT PROVOKE GOD ARE SECURE, Psalms 73:12; INTO WHOSE HAND GOD BRINGETH ABUND...
THE STRANGE GOOD FORTUNE OF THE GODLESS. If Zophar's arguments had been valid and Job's suffering was to be regarded as the direct punishment for a specific sin, then his faith in the justice of God...
JOB EMPHASISES GOD'S GREATNESS AND WISDOM (vv.1-25) Job's reply to Zophar was understandably sarcastic, "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!" (v.2). Zophar had implied that h...
Despite what his friends have said in the real world sinners do prosper. This is his second line of evidence, robbers and God-haters who prosper and are secure....
6-11 Job appeals to facts. The most audacious robbers, oppressors, and impious wretches, often prosper. Yet this is not by fortune or chance; the Lord orders these things. Worldly prosperity is of sma...
THE TABERNACLES OF ROBBERS PROSPER: thy opinion, delivered JOB 11:14, &c, is confuted by daily experience; which shows that the most wicked, and injurious, and impudent oppressors, tyrants, and robber...
Job 12:6 tents H168 robbers H7703 (H8802) prosper H7951 (H8799) provoke H7264 (H8688) God H410 God...
CONTENTS: Job answers his three friends, extolling God's wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: There is a wise providence which guides and governs all things by rules with which t...
Job 12:6. _The tabernacles of robbers prosper._ Or as it might be rendered, a placid tranquility gladdens the tabernacles of robbers; referring to the Arabs, who plunder the merchants. This and the fo...
_JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR_ I. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in Zophar’s speech (Job 12:2). His defence is:— 1. _Ironical_ (Job 12:2). “No doubt but ye are the people; and wisd...
EXPOSITION The discourse of Job, here begun, continues through three chapters (Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1.). It is thought to form the conclusion of the first day's colloquy. In it Job for the first...
So Job answered him and said, No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom is going to die with you (Job 12:1-2). He's about had it with these guys who think they know all the answers, and they're not...
Jeremiah 5:27; Job 21:7; Job 9:24; Psalms 17:14; Psalms 37:1;...
Are secure — Job's friends had all supposed, that wicked men cannot prosper long in the world. This Job opposes, and maintains, that God herein acts as sovereign, and reserves that exact distribution...