“ Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. ”
Yet his meat - His food. In his bowels is turned - That is, it is as if he had taken food which was exceedingly pleasant, and had retained it in his mouth as long as possible, that he might e...
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...
meat . bread; "bread" put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species) App-6, for all kinds of food.
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. Turned - changed into poison. The Hebrew denotes a total change into a disagreeable contrary ( Jeremiah 2:21 ; cf. Re...
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...
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....
“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...
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...
(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...
[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned ,.... Or "his bread" r, to which sin is compared, being what the sinner lives in, and lives upon; what he strengthens himself in and with, and by which he is n...
Job 20:14 [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him. Ver. 14. Yet his meat in his bowels is turned ] Sour sauce be hath at length to his sweet meats, viz. gripe...
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth Though it greatly please him while he is committing it; though he hide it under his tongue As an epicure doth a sweet morsel, which he keeps and rolls abou...
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...
Misery of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and h...
Turned into another nature or quality, from sweet to bitter. The gall of asps, i.e. exceeding bitter and pernicious. Gall is most bitter; the gall of serpents is full of poison, which from thence...
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 20:2 . 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...
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth. The woe of the wicked I. The disposition of a wicked man in regard to sin. 1. His complacency in it. “It is sweet to his mouth.” A metaphor taken fro...
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 )....
Zophar Pictures the End of the Ungodly
2 Samuel 11:2-5 ; 2 Samuel 12:10 ; 2 Samuel 12:11 ; Deuteronomy 32:24 ; Jeremiah 2:19 ; Job 20:16 ; Malachi 2:2 ; Proverbs 1:31 ; Proverbs 23:20 ; Proverbs 23:21 ; Proverbs 23:29-35 ; Psa...
Turned — From sweet to bitter. Gall of asps — Exceeding bitter and pernicious. Gall is most bitter; the gall of serpents is full of poison; and the poison of asps is most dangerous and within a few...