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Verse Job 21:34. _HOW THEN COMFORT YE ME IN VAIN_] Mr. _Good_
translates: "How vainly then would ye make me retract!" See the note
on Job 21:2. I cannot _retract_ any thing I have said, as I have
prov...
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HOW THEN COMFORT YE ME IN VAIN ... - That is, how can you be qualified
to give me consolation in my trials, who have such erroneous views of
the government and dealings of God? True consolation could...
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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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FALSEHOOD. perverseness. Hebrew. _ma'al._ App-44....
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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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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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_HOW THEN COMFORT YE ME IN VAIN, SEEING IN YOUR ANSWERS THERE
REMAINETH FALSEHOOD?_
Falsehood - literally, wickedness. Your boasted "consolations" (Job
15:11) are contradicted by facts ("vain"); they...
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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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There remaineth falsehood. — Or, _all that is left of them is
transgression,_ that is to say, it is not only worthless, but yet
more, it is even harmful and wrong....
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וְ֭ אֵיךְ תְּנַחֲמ֣וּנִי הָ֑בֶל וּ֝
תְשֽׁוּבֹתֵיכֶ֗ם נִשְׁאַר ־מָֽעַל׃ ס...
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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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How then comfort (u) ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there
remaineth falsehood?
(u) Saying that the just in this world have prosperity and the wicked
adversity....
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_Vain. These arguments shew that your assertions are destitute of
proof, and afford me no comfort. (Calmet)_...
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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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HOW THEN COMFORT YE ME IN VAIN,.... This is the conclusion Job draws
from the above observations: his friends came to comfort him, and they
took methods for it, as they thought, but miserable comforte...
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How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth
falsehood?
Ver. 34. _How then comfort ye me in vain_] Since ye apply nothing
rightly to me, nor affirm nothing rightly of me, bu...
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_How then comfort ye me in vain?_ See then how ill you discharge the
office of comforters, whose arguments have so little truth in them.
Or, Why do you seek to comfort me with vain hopes of recovering...
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Job Rebukes his Friends for their One-Sidedness....
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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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FALSEHOOD:
_ Heb._ transgression...
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Job could not be convicted nor comforted by their arguments, because
their arguments were so untrue and flimsy....
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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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Why then do you seek to comfort me with vain hopes of recovering my
prosperity if I repent, seeing your grounds are manifestly false, and
common experience showeth that good men are very oft in great...
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Job 21:34 comfort H5162 (H8762) words H1892 falsehood H4604 remains
H7604 (H8738) answers H8666
comfort - Job 16:2
seeing - Job 13:4, Job 32:3, Job 42:7
falsehood - Heb. transgression...
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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 quot...
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Job 13:4; Job 16:2; Job 32:3; Job 42:7...
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How — Why then do you seek to comfort me with vain hopes of
recovering my prosperity, seeing your grounds are false, and
experience shews, that good men are often in great tribulation, while
the viles...