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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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 27
JOB CONTINUES HIS LAST S...
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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...
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_(_12_)_ BEHOLD, ALL YE YOURSELVES HAVE SEEN IT. — That is, “You
have seen me so proclaim the great power of God.”...
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הֵן ־אַתֶּ֣ם כֻּלְּכֶ֣ם חֲזִיתֶ֑ם וְ
לָמָּה ־
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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Belief in the Final Destruction of the Ungodly....
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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...
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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?...
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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...
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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...
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Job 27:12 seen H2372 (H8804) behave H1891 complete H1892 nonsense
H1891 (H8799)
ye yourselves -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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;...
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Ecclesiastes 8:14; Ecclesiastes 9:1; Job 13:4; Job 16:3; Job 17:2;...
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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....