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Verse Job 21:30. _THAT THE WICKED IS RESERVED TO THE DAY OF_
_DESTRUCTION?_] Though every one can tell that he has seen the wicked
in prosperity, and even spend a long life in it; yet this is no proo...
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THAT THE WICKED IS RESERVED TO THE DAY OF DESTRUCTION? - He is not
punished, as you maintain, at once. He is “kept” with a view to
future punishment; and though calamity will certainly overtake him at...
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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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THAT. Supply _Ellipsis_ (App-6) before "That". "[They say] that". See
translation below....
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_they shall be brought forth to_ Rather, THEY ARE LED FORTH IN, i. e.
led away in safety from the destroying wrath, parallel to "spared" or
withholden, in the first clause; cf. Isaiah 55:12 (_led fort...
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Travellers give a different account of the fate of the wicked; they
tell that he is spared in the day of destruction:
29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way,
And do ye not regard their tokens,...
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Finally, still pursuing his argument, Job turns to the insinuations of
his friends against himself, which lie under their descriptions of the
fate of the wicked. He knows what they mean when they say,...
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BEHOLD, I KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS— By the _day of destruction,_ and _the
day of wrath,_ mentioned in the 30th verse, I believe it will appear,
from the context, can be meant no other than the future day of...
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5. So, your argument that I am wicked because I suffer is false. (Job
21:27-34)
TEXT 21:27-34
27 BEHOLD, I KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS,
And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.
28 For ye say, Where is...
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_THAT THE WICKED IS RESERVED TO THE DAY OF DESTRUCTION? THEY SHALL BE
BROUGHT FORTH TO THE DAY OF WRATH._
Their testimony (referring perhaps to those who had visited the region
where Abraham, who enjo...
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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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Perhaps Job’s friends did not know any evil people who were
successful. Today we often read about such people in the newspapers.
Then, people would hear the news from travellers....
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(30-33) THAT THE WICKED.... — These verses contain the result of
their experience....
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כִּ֤י לְ יֹ֣ום אֵ֭יד יֵחָ֣שֶׂךְ רָ֑ע
לְ
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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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That the wicked is reserved to the day of (r) destruction? they shall
be brought forth to the day of wrath.
(r) Though the wicked flourish here, yet God will punish him in the
last day....
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_To the. He will be requited indeed, at last; or rather, when others
are in the utmost danger, he will be protected as it were by God.
Septuagint, (Calmet) or Theodotion, "the wicked is kept on high,...
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(27) В¶ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye
wrongfully imagine against me. (28) For ye say, Where is the house of
the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? (29) H...
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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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THAT THE WICKED IS RESERVED TO THE DAY OF DESTRUCTION?.... That is,
that they are spared, withheld, restrained, as the word d signifies,
or kept and preserved from many calamities and distresses, whic...
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That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be
brought forth to the day of wrath.
Ver. 30. _That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction?_]
Here is the passenger's verd...
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_Have ye not asked them that go by the way?_ In these verses we have
an answer to the preceding question; as if he had said, Even the
travellers that pass along the road can inform you: it is so vulga...
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Job Rebukes his Friends for their One-Sidedness....
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that the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction, held back,
spared in the day of ruin? THEY SHALL BE BROUGHT FORTH TO THE DAY OF
WRATH, led away from the overflowing wrath, taken beyond its reac...
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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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THE DAY OF WRATH:
_ Heb._ the day of wraths...
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Yes the wicked man will be judged, but he is not judged "immediately",
he is reserved for the day of calamity....
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27-34 Job opposes the opinion of his friends, That the wicked are
sure to fall into visible and remarkable ruin, and none but the
wicked; upon which principle they condemned Job as wicked. Turn to
wh...
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THAT THE WICKED, & c. this is the thing which they might learn of
passengers. RESERVED; or, _withheld_, or _kept back_, to wit, from
falling into common calamities, though in truth he be not so much k...
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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’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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2 Peter 2:9; 2 Peter 3:7; Job 20:28; Jude 1:13; Nahum 1:2;...
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They — He speaks of the same person; only the singular number is
changed into the plural, possibly to intimate, that altho' for the
present only some wicked men were punished, yet then all of them
sho...