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Verse Job 21:29. _HAVE YE NOT ASKED THEM THAT GO BY THE WAY?_] This
appears to be Job's answer. Consult travellers who have gone through
different countries; and they will tell you that they have see...
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HAVE YE NOT ASKED THEM THAT GO BY THE WAY? - Travelers, who have
passed into other countries, and who have had an opportunity of making
observations, and of learning the opinions of those residing the...
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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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HAVE YE NOT. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
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_them that go by the way_ The travellers; here those who have
travelled far, or come from a distance, and are full of experience.
_do ye not know their tokens_ Or, REGARD. Their "tokens" are no doubt...
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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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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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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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_HAVE YE NOT ASKED THEM THAT GO BY THE WAY? AND DO YE NOT KNOW THEIR
TOKENS,_
Job, seeing that the friends will not admit him as an impartial judge,
as they consider his calamities prove his guilt, be...
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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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THEIR TOKENS — _i.e., the marks and evidences of their experience,
and the conclusions at which they had arrived.
_...
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הֲ לֹ֣א שְׁ֭אֶלְתֶּם עֹ֣ובְרֵי
דָ֑רֶךְ וְ֝ אֹ
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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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CHAPTER XXI.
_ Way. Travellers, who have seen foreign countries, (Vatable) or any
one that may be passing, (Sanchez) will answer this objection
(Haydock) in my favour. (Menochius) --- They will all a...
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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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HAVE YE NOT ASKED THEM THAT GO BY THE WAY?.... Did you not ask every
traveller you met with on the road the above question? not which was
the way to Job's house, which they knew very well, but in what...
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Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their
tokens,
Ver. 29. _Have ye not asked them that go by the way?_] The cause of
their rash judgment, Job showeth here to be their ignor...
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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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Have ye not asked them that go by the way, inquiring of travelers well
acquainted with history and human destinies! AND DO YE NOT KNOW THEIR
TOKENS, they should not fail to note and to know what such...
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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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"HAVE YOU NOT ASKED THE WAYFARING MEN": But their claims do not agree
with the evidence, as anyone with traveling experience would confirm.
"All they needed to do to see who was right was to ask trave...
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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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These are the words, either,
1. Of Job's friends, who thus continue their former discourse by a
second inquiry; or rather,
2. Of Job himself, who answers one question with another. You may
learn this...
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Job 21:29 asked H7592 (H8804) travel H5674 (H8802) road H1870 know
H5234 (H8762) signs H226
go by -...
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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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Psalms 129:8...
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Them — Any person that passes along the high — way, every one you
meet with. It is so vulgar a thing, that no man of common sense is
ignorant of it. Tokens — The examples, or evidences, of this truth,...