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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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A different history; cf. Job's words of himself, ch. Job 3:20; Job
7:11.
_never eateth with pleasure_ Rather, AND HATH NOT TASTED (lit. eaten)
OF GOOD....
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By insisting on a doctrine of providence which did not correspond to
God's providence as actually seen in facts, Job's friends were making
themselves wiser than God and becoming His teachers Will any...
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LO, THEIR GOOD IS NOT IN THEIR HAND— After the foregoing elegant
description of the prosperity of some wicked men, Job proceeds, on the
other hand, to confess what was likewise apparent in the ways of...
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4. The only equality is to be found in death. (Job 21:23-26)
TEXT 21:23-26
23 ONE DIETH IN HIS FULL STRENGTH,
Being wholly at ease and quiet:
24 His pails are full of milk,
And the marrow of his...
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_AND ANOTHER DIETH IN THE BITTERNESS OF HIS SOUL, AND NEVER EATETH
WITH PLEASURE._
(Cf. Job 3:20; Job 9:23.) (Ecclesiastes 9:2.)...
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21:25 tasted (f-11) Lit. 'eaten.'...
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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.
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CHAPTER 21
JOB REPLIES TO ZOPHAR’S...
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This is like Job’s earlier words in Job 3:13-19. Job described well
the death of the body. But he did not describe what happened to the
men’s spirits. See Luke 16:19-26.
THE REPORTS OF TRAVELLERS...
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וְ זֶ֗ה יָ֭מוּת בְּ נֶ֣פֶשׁ מָרָ֑ה וְ
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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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And another (n) dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth
with pleasure.
(n) That is, the godly....
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_Any. Hebrew, "ever having eaten with pleasure." (Haydock)_...
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(14) Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not
the knowledge of thy ways. (15) What is the Almighty, that we should
serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?...
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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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AND ANOTHER DIETH IN THE BITTERNESS OF HIS SOUL,.... Either another
wicked man; for there is a difference among wicked men; some are
outwardly happy in life, and in the circumstances of their death, a...
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And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with
pleasure.
Ver. 25. _And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul_] Heb. And
this dieth with a bitter soul; in a sad and sorro...
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_Another dieth_ Another wicked man, or any other man promiscuously
considered, either good or bad. _In the bitterness of his soul _ With
heart-breaking pains and sorrows; _and never eateth with pleasu...
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And another, in contrast with this person, DIETH IN THE BITTERNESS OF
HIS SOUL AND NEVER EATETH WITH PLEASURE, not even having tasted of
prosperity....
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JOB POINTS OUT THE DIFFERENCE IN CALAMITIES BEFALLING MEN...
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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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17-26 Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these
verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their
certain ruin in this life. He reconciles this to the holiness a...
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ANOTHER; either,
1. Another wicked man. Or,
2. Any other man promiscuously considered, either good or bad. So
hereby he shows how indifferently and alike God deals the concerns of
this life to one an...
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Job 21:25 dies H4191 (H8799) bitterness H4751 soul H5315 eaten H398
(H8804) pleasure H2896
in the bitterness -...
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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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_One dieth in his full strength. .. Another dieth in the bitterness of
his soul._
PROVIDENCE VINDICATED AGAINST THE SUPERFICIAL OBSERVER
That which hampers men most in understanding providence is its...
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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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1 Kings 17:12; 2 Samuel 17:8; Ecclesiastes 6:2; Ezekiel 12:18;...
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Another — Another wicked man. So there is a great variety of God's
dispensations; he distributes great prosperity to one, and great
afflictions to another, according to his wise but secret counsel....