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Verse Job 27:14. _IF HIS CHILDREN BE MULTIPLIED_] As numerous families
were supposed to be a proof of the benediction of the Almighty, Job
shows that this is not always the case; for the offspring of...
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IF HIS CHILDREN BE MULTIPLIED, IT IS FOR THE SWORD - That is, they
shall be slain in war. The first calamities which it is here said
would come upon a man, relate to his family Job 27:14; the next are...
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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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CHILDREN. sons....
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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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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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אִם ־יִרְבּ֣וּ בָנָ֣יו לְמֹו ־חָ֑רֶב
וְ֝ צֶאֱצָאָ֗יו לֹ֣א יִשְׂבְּעוּ
־לָֽחֶם׃...
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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 b...
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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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CHAPTER XXVII.
_ Bread. Septuagint, "if they grow up to manhood, they shall beg,"
Psalm xxxvi 25. (Haydock)_...
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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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IF HIS CHILDREN BE MULTIPLIED,.... As it is possible they may; this is
one external blessing common to good men and bad men. Haman, that
proud oppressor, left ten sons behind him, and wicked Ahab had...
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If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his
offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Ver. 14. _If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword_] As were
Ahab's seventy sons,...
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_It is for the sword_ That they may be cut off by the sword, either of
war or of justice: _and his offspring_, &c. Shall be starved, or shall
want necessaries. _Those that remain of him_ Who survive t...
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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 deba...
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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 w...
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IT IS FOR THE SWORD; that they may be cut off by the sword, either of
war or of justice. SHALL NOT BE SATISFIED WITH BREAD; shall be
starved, or want necessaries. A figure called _meiosis_....
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Job 27:14 children H1121 multiplied H7235 (H8799) for H3926 sword
H2719 offspring H6631 satisfied H7646 (H8799) bread H3899
children - Job 21:11-12; Deuteronomy 28:32, Deuteronomy 28:41; 2 Kings
9:7-...
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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 heavil...
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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, theref...
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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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1 Samuel 2:5; 2 Kings 10:6; 2 Kings 9:7; 2 Kings 9:8; Deuteronomy
28:32; Deuteronomy 28:41; Esther 5:11; Esther 9:5; Hosea 9:13; Hosea
9:14;...