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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Job 27:12

Ye yourselves have seen it I speak no false or strange things: but what is known and confirmed by your own experience, and that of others. Why then are ye thus altogether vain? In maintaining such a foolish and false opinion against your own knowledge and experience?

Why do you so obstinately defend your opinion, and not comply with mine, for the truth of which I appeal to your own consciences?

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See also Job 27:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 27:12. _YE YOURSELVES HAVE SEEN_ IT] Your own experience and observation have shown you that the righteous are frequently in affliction, and the wicked in affluence. _WHY THEN ARE YE THUS...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BEHOLD, ALL YE YOURSELVES HAVE SEEN IT - You have had an opportunity of tracing the proofs of the wisdom of God in his works. WHY THEN ARE YE THUS ALTOGETHER VAIN - Why is it that you maintain such op...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _are ye thus altogether vain?_ i. e. wherefore do ye cherish and express opinions regarding me so foolish? "Two things are surprising here," says Dillmann, "first, that Job should undertake to teach t...

  • 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

    _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...

  • 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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    In verse 12, Job recognised that his friends had already said such things. But their speeches were foolish because they were trying to accuse Job. For example, when Zophar spoke about wicked people (c...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    _(_12_)_ BEHOLD, ALL YE YOURSELVES HAVE SEEN IT. — That is, “You have seen me so proclaim the great power of God.”...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֵן ־אַתֶּ֣ם כֻּלְּכֶ֣ם חֲזִיתֶ֑ם וְ לָמָּה ־

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Behold, all ye yourselves (h) have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether (i) vain? (h) That is, these secret judgments of God and yet do not understand them. (i) Why do you then maintain this e...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • 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

    BEHOLD, ALL YE YOURSELVES HAVE SEEN [IT],.... As they were men of observation, at least made great pretensions to it, as well as of age and experience, they must have seen and observed somewhat at lea...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether vain? Ver. 12. _Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it_] And can say as much to it as I can in these _sc._ that God afflictet...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it, he concedes that the final lot of the wicked is often one of extreme affliction, he agrees to accept this observation; WHY, THEN, ARE YE THUS ALTOGETHER VAIN, g...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Belief in the Final Destruction of the Ungodly....

  • 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

    Yet such teaching would only be. reminder of what they had already seen, so why were they acting so foolishly in ignoring such obvious truths?...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I speak no false or strange things, but what is known and confirmed by your own as well as others experiences. WHY THEN ARE YE THUS ALTOGETHER VAIN, in maintaining such a foolish and false opinion aga...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 27:12 seen H2372 (H8804) behave H1891 complete H1892 nonsense H1891 (H8799) ye yourselves -...

  • 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

    _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...

  • 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

    Ecclesiastes 8:14; Ecclesiastes 9:1; Job 13:4; Job 16:3; Job 17:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Have seen — I speak what is confirmed by your own, as well as others experiences. Vain — To condemn me for a wicked man, because I am afflicted....

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