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Verse Job 24:25. _AND IF_ IT BE _NOT_ SO _NOW_] Job has proved by
examples that the righteous are often oppressed; that the wicked often
triumph over the just, that the impious are always wretched ev...
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AND IF IT BE NOT SO NOW, WHO WILL MAKE ME A LIAR? - A challenge to
anyone to prove the contrary to what he had said. Job had now attacked
their main position, and had appealed to facts in defense of w...
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CHAPTER S 23-24 JOB'S REPLY
_ 1. O that I knew where I may find Him (Job 23:1)_
2. Trusting yet doubting (Job 23:10)
3. Hath God failed? (Job 24:1)
4. Job's further testimony as to the wicked ...
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JOB 24. This chapter has since Merx in 1871 been subjected to much
criticism, the general trend of which has been to deny the whole or a
considerable part of the chapter to Job. Peake, however, consid...
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Job alas! is only too sure of his facts, and conscious that he has
history and experience at his back he victoriously exclaims, Who will
make me a liar?
Job has gained his victory over his friends, b...
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AND IF IT BE NOT SO NOW— _But since this is by no means the case at
present, who,_ &c. See Houb. and Heath.
REFLECTIONS.—1st. The argument in dispute is, whether the wicked
were not always pursued wi...
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c. The unhappy fate of the wicked (Job 24:18-25)
TEXT 24:18-25
18 SWIFTLY THEY _PASS AWAY_ UPON THE FACE OF THE WATERS;
Their portion is cursed in the earth:
They turn not into the way of the viney...
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_HE DRAWETH ALSO THE MIGHTY WITH HIS POWER: HE RISETH UP, AND NO MAN
IS SURE OF LIFE._
Reply of Job to the opinions of the friends. Experience proves the
contrary. Translate, 'But He (God) prolongeth...
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JOB'S SEVENTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED)
1-25. Job continues to express his perplexity at the ways of
Providence in the ordering of the world. The poor and the weak suffer;
violence and wrong go unpunished....
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'Who can dispute my contention?'...
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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 24
JOB CONTINUES HIS SPEECH...
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God decides how long a person will live. And God decides when these
wicked people will die.
A wicked man may be powerful. And nobody may dare to oppose that man.
But when God acts, that man will die....
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AND IF IT BE NOT SO NOW. — Job also has his facts, as ready and as
incontrovertible as those of his friends, and yet irreconcilable with
theirs....
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וְ אִם ־לֹ֣א אֵ֭פֹו מִ֣י
יַכְזִיבֵ֑נִי וְ
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XX.
WHERE IS ELOAH?
Job 23:1; Job 24:1
Job SPEAKS
THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some
reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind.
"Again today, my plain...
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NOT HERE, BUT HEREAFTER
Job 24:1
Job laments that the times of punishment are not so explained by God,
that those who know Him may see and understand His reasons. He then
turns to describe the life o...
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Passing from the personal aspect of his problem, Job considered it in
its wider application. He asked the reason of God's noninterference,
and then proceeded to describe the evidences of it. Men still...
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_And set. Septuagint and Protestants, "and make my speech nothing
worth." (Haydock) --- This conclusion come frequently, chap. ix. 15.,
and xvii. 15. Job defies his friends to shew the fallacy of his...
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(25) And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my
speech nothing worth?
Job having finished his sermon, demands of his friends to confront it
if they could. The man of Uz, it is evide...
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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 IF [IT BE] NOT [SO] NOW,.... If this is not the case of men of
such wicked lives as above described, do not prosper in the world, and
increase in riches, and do not pass through the world with imp...
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And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my
speech nothing worth?
Ver. 25. _And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar?_] _Quis
ementietur me?_ Who shall disprove or confu...
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_And if it be not so now_ Namely, as I have discoursed; if God does
not often suffer wicked men to live long and prosperously in the
world, before he punishes them; and if good men be not sometimes
so...
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Other Cases seem to Support Job's Idea...
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And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, convicting him of
falsehood, AND MAKE MY SPEECH NOTHING WORTH? Job very emphatically
expresses his conviction that he now had the advantage of his
opp...
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DOES GOD FAIL TO GOVERN PROPERLY?
(vv.1-12)
"Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? Why do not they who
know Him see His days?" (v.1 - JND trans.) Job wonders why God (who is
Almighty) do...
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Here is the challenge to prove him wrong. Job's problem seems to be
that God even allow the wicked to prosper for. short time. Job had
forgotten about God's desire for all men to repent (2 Peter 3:9)....
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18-25 Sometimes how gradual is the decay, how quiet the departure of
a wicked person, how is he honoured, and how soon are all his
cruelties and oppressions forgotten! They are taken off with other
m...
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IF IT BE NOT SO NOW, to wit, as I have discoursed; if God doth not
suffer wicked men to live long and prosperously in the world before he
punisheth them; and if good men be not sometimes sorely afflic...
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Job 24:25 Now H645 prove H7760 (H8799) liar H3576 (H8686) make H7760
(H8799) speech H4405 nothing...
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Job 24:1. _Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they
that know him not see his days?_
«Why do they live so long? Why do they appear to have such
prosperity?»
Job 24:2. Some remove...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. The prosperity of the wicked.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends.
CONCLUSION: Though wicked men seem sometimes to be under the special
protection of divine providence, e...
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Job 24:3. _They drive away the ass of the fatherless._ In Job's time
there was no regular government or empire, to bring neighbouring
tyrants to justice; proof sufficient that this book is of the high...
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_Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty._
GREAT CRIMES NOT ALWAYS FOLLOWED BY GREAT PUNISHMENT IN THIS LIFE
I. Great crimes have prevailed on the earth from the earliest times.
Amongst t...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:1 Job wishes that God’s plans for the world and
for Job would be more apparent.
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_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_
Prosecutes his own view of the Divine government. Enlarges on the
crimes of one part of men and the sufferings of another as the
consequences of them, to shew...
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EXPOSITION
The general subject of this chapter is the prosperity of the wicked,
whose proceedings and their results are traced out in detail (Job
24:2). A single note of perplexity (Job 24:1) forms a...
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Now, why, seeing the times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they
that know him not see his days? Some [now you've accused me of these
things, but there are some] that remove the landmarks; and vio...
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Job 11:2; Job 11:3; Job 15:2; Job 9:24...