Job 20:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. ”

• Job 20:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  His bones are full of the sin of his youth - The words “of the sin” in our common translation are supplied by the translators. Gesenius and Noyes suppose that the Hebrew means, “His bones are ful...

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• Job 20:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which (e) shall lie down with him in the dust. (e) Meaning that he will carry nothing away with him but his sin.

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• Job 20:11 - 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...

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• Job 20:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. His bones are full of the sin of his youth - Our translators have followed the Vulgate, Ossa ejus implebuntur...

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• Job 20:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  His bones are full of the sin of his youth— The expression seems directly to assert that there is a punishment attending the wicked in a future state. His bones are full of the sin of his youth,...

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• Job 20:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. ( Psalms 25:7 ); so the Vulgate. Gesenius has 'full of youth'-namely, in the fullness of his youthful str...

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• Job 20:11 - 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...

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• Job 20:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  His bones are full of the sin of his youth. — Rather, of his youth, or youthful vigour, as in Job 33:25 : “He shall return to the days of his youth,” and Psalms 89:46 : “The days of his you...

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• Job 20:11 - 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....

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• Job 20:11 - 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...

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• Job 20:11 - 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...

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• Job 20:11 - 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...

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• Job 20:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  His bones are full [of the sins] of his youth ,.... Man is born in sin, and is a transgressor from the womb; and the youthful age is addicted to many sins, as pride, passion, lust, luxury, intempera...

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• Job 20:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. Ver. 11. His bones are full of the sin of his youth ] Foul practices have so grown up together with some si...

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• Job 20:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  His bones That is, his whole body, even the strongest parts of it; are full of the sin of his youth Of the punishment of it. He shall feel the sad effects of his youthful sins in his riper years,...

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• Job 20:11 - 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...

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• Job 20:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Misery of the Wicked. B. C. 1520.       10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and h...

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• Job 20:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  His bones, i.e. his whole body, even the strongest parts of it, which may seem most remote from danger. Of the sin of his youth, Heb. of his youth , i.e. of his youthful pleasures and lusts, by...

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• Job 20:11 - 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...

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• Job 20:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Job 20:11 The enduring effects of early transgression. I. Notice, first, how difficult and almost impossible it is, in reference to the present scene of being, to make up by after-diligence for t...

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• Job 20:11 - 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...

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• Job 20:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  His bones are full Of the sin of his youth. The sins of youth I. The state or condition of a wicked man. “His bones are full of the sin of his youth.” 1. The sin. “Youthful pranks.” By youth...

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• Job 20:11 - 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 )....

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• Job 20:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Zophar Pictures the End of the Ungodly

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• Job 20:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 1:25 ; Ezekiel 24:13 ; Ezekiel 32:27 ; Job 13:26 ; Job 19:20 ; Job 21:26 ; John 8:21 ; John 8:24 ; Proverbs 14:32 ; Proverbs 5:11-13 ; Proverbs 5:22 ; Proverbs 5:23 ; Psalms 25:7

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• Job 20:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Bones — His whole body, even the strongest parts of it. The sin — Of the punishment of it.

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