Job 12:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. ”

• Job 12:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The tabernacles of robbers prosper - The tents or dwellings of robbers are safe and secure. This is Job’s original proposition, to which he all along adheres. It is, that God does not deal with p...

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• Job 12:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Eliphaz had appealed to revelation, Bildad to the wisdom of the ancients, Zophar assumes that he himself is the oracle of God's wisdom. Job answers this assumption. Firstly Zophar is not the only wis...

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• Job 12:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  GOD Hebrew El. App-4.

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• Job 12:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly . The tabernacles of robbers prosper - Those who live by the plunder of their neighb...

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• Job 12:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly— Those who provoke God, enjoy in security whatever God pleases to bestow upon them.

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• Job 12:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure. Jo...

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• Job 12:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Third Speech (Job 12-14) The friends have said God is wise and mighty. Job replies, 'I know that as well as you. You infer that He is also righteous, but experience shows that His power and...

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• Job 12:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. — Some understand these words, to him that bringeth his god in his hand (comp. Habakkuk 1:11 ; Habakkuk 1:16 ); but the other seems more in accordance w...

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• Job 12:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...

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• Job 12:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “God's Paths in Deep Waters” Job 12:1-25 Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness invariably causes insecurity in men's dwellings; and in doing so he bitterly complains...

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• Job 12:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job's last reply in this first cycle is to the whole argument, as well as to Zophar's application of it. From beginning to end, it thrills with sarcasm, while it maintains its denial of personal guil...

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• Job 12:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ And Job answered and said, (2) No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. (3) But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such t...

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• Job 12:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The tabernacles of robbers prosper ,.... Such as the Chaldeans and Sabeans, who had robbed Job of his substance, and filled their houses with the spoils of others, and lived in the greatest fulness...

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• Job 12:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly]. Ver. 6. The tabernacles of robbers prosper ] By robbers here understand all suc...

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• Job 12:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The tabernacles of robbers prosper Job's friends had all supposed that wicked men cannot prosper long in the world. This Job opposes, and maintains that God herein acts as sovereign, and reserves t...

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• Job 12:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB EMPHASISES GOD'S GREATNESS AND WISDOM (vv.1-25) Job's reply to Zophar was understandably sarcastic, "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!" (v.2). Zophar had implied tha...

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• Job 12:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.   7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of...

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• Job 12:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The tabernacles of robbers prosper: thy opinion, delivered Job 11:14 , &c, is confuted by daily experience; which shows that the most wicked, and injurious, and impudent oppressors, tyrants,...

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• Job 12:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR I. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in Zophar’s speech ( Job 12:2-3 ). His defence is:— 1. Ironical ( Job 12:2 ). “No doubt but ye are the people...

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• Job 12:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 12:6 . The tabernacles of robbers prosper. Or as it might be rendered, a placid tranquility gladdens the tabernacles of robbers; referring to the Arabs, who plunder the merchants. This and the...

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• Job 12:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The discourse of Job, here begun, continues through three chapters ( Job 12:1-18 ; Job 13:1-18 ; Job 14:1-18 .). It is thought to form the conclusion of the first day's colloquy. In...

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• Job 12:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Strange Good Fortune of the Godless. If Zophar's arguments had been valid and Job's suffering was to be regarded as the direct punishment for a specific sin, then his faith in the justice of...

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• Job 12:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Jeremiah 5:27 ; Job 21:7-15 ; Job 9:24 ; Psalms 17:14 ; Psalms 37:1 ; Psalms 37:35 ; Psalms 73:11 ; Psalms 73:12

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• Job 12:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Are secure — Job's friends had all supposed, that wicked men cannot prosper long in the world. This Job opposes, and maintains, that God herein acts as sovereign, and reserves that exact distributi...

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