Job 20:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ His childrenc shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. ”

Job 20:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His children shall seek to please the poor - Margin, or, “the poor shall oppress his children.” The idea in the Hebrew seems to be, that his sons shall be reduced to the humiliating condition of...
Job 20:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

His children shall (c) seek to please the poor, and his hands shall (d) restore their goods. (c) While the father through ambition and tyranny oppressed the poor, the children through poverty and mi...
Job 20:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20. Second Speech of Zophar. Zophar helps the return to the wider problem by appearing once more with a strong doctrine as to the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked. His theme is, Sin br...
Job 20:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

children . sons. seek to please . pay court to. poor . impoverished. Hebrew. dul. See note on Proverbs 6:11 .
Job 20:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. His children shall seek to please the poor - They shall be reduced to the lowest degree of poverty and want, so as...
Job 20:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

His children, &c.— Houbigant gives this verse a different turn from that proposed in the note on the 2nd verse. He renders it; His children shall wander about in poverty; for his hands, &...
Job 20:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. Seek to please - `atone to the poor' (by restoring the property of which they been robbed by the father) (...
Job 20:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zophar's Second Speech Zophar ignores Job's conviction that God will one day establish his innocence, and proceeds to describe the short triumph of the wicked and his certain downfall and punishme...
Job 20:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

His children shall seek to please the poor. — That is, shall seek their favour by making good what had been taken from them, or otherwise; or it may be rendered, the poor shall oppress his childre...
Job 20:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XVII. IGNORANT CRITICISM OF LIFE Job 20:1-29 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE great saying that quickens our faith and carries thought into a higher world conveyed no Divine meaning to the man from Naamah....
Job 20:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Triumphing of the Wicked” Job 20:1-29 Zophar is the man who least of all understood Job. The rebuke which Job had just administered, Job 19:28-29 , has vexed him, so that he speaks with i...
Job 20:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

With evident haste, Zophar replied. His speech is introduced with an apology for his haste and a confession of his anger. He had heard the reproof, but he was not convinced; and the spirit of his und...
Job 20:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(4) Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, (5) That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? (6) Though his excellency mount up to...
Job 20:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

His children shall seek to please the poor ,.... In this and some following verses the miserable state of a wicked man is described, and which begins with his children, who are often visited in wrat...
Job 20:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. Ver. 10. His children shall seek to please the poor ] Tenuiores sunt ipsis tenuibus, saith Junius; shall be p...
Job 20:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

His children shall seek to please the poor Either, 1st, To get some small relief from them in their extreme necessity. Or, rather, 2d, Lest they should revenge themselves on them for the great and...
Job 20:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE WICKED MAN'S BRIEF TRIUMPH (vv.1-5) Zophar does not even consider the possibility that Job is not wicked, but again strongly condemns the wicked, making it evident that he is really speaking...
Job 20:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Misery of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and h...
Job 20:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Shall seek to please the poor; either, 1. To get some small relief from them in their extreme necessity. Or rather, 2. Lest they should revenge themselves of them for the great and many injurie...
Job 20:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH Produces nothing new; much more outspoken than before. Enlarges on the miseries overtaking the wicked, insinuating that Job was such. His argument,—like in condition, like...
Job 20:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 20:2 . I make haste to answer, for thou reproachest both God and us. Zophar had felt the point of Job's sword, in the preseding discourse; but the present chapter may well be considered as a m...
Job 20:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 20:1-18 Zophar's second speech is even more harsh than his first ( Job 11:1-18 .). He adds coarseness and rudeness to his former vehement hostility ( Job 20:7 , Job 20:15 )....
Job 20:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Zophar Pictures the End of the Ungodly
Job 20:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 12:6 ; Exodus 12:36 ; Exodus 22:1 ; Exodus 22:3 ; Exodus 9:2 ; Job 20:18 ; Luke 19:8 ; Proverbs 28:3 ; Proverbs 6:31 ; Psalms 109:10

Job 20:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 20:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 20:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 20:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 20:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 20:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 20:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 20:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 20:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 20:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 20:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 20:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 20:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 20:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 20:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 20:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 20:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 20:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 20:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 20:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 20:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge