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

“ Surely he shall not feelg quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. ”

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

  Surely he shall not feel quietness - Margin, as in the Hebrew “know.” The sense is, he shall not know peace or tranquility. He shall be agitated and troubled. Wemyss, however, renders this, “Beca...

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• Job 20:20 - 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 20:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  feel . know, or experience.

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

  Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly - I have already remarked that the word בטן beten, which w...

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

  Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. Shall not - rather, 'For he knows (or knew) no quietness' or rest from desires. In his belly -...

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

  Quietness in his belly. — “Because he knew no quietness within him, (Comp. Isaiah 57:20-21 .) he shall not save ought of that which he desireth.”

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

  Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly ,.... Or happiness in his children, so some in Bar Tzemach; rather shall have no satisfaction in his substance; though his belly is filled with hid tr...

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• Job 20:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. Ver. 20. Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly ] i.e. Peace in his conscience, satisfaction...

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

  Surely he shall not feel quietness , &c. He shall have no peace nor satisfaction in his mind, in all his gains, partly because of his perpetual fears and expectations of the wrath of God and man...

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

  He shall not feel quietness in his belly, i.e. he shall have no peace nor satisfaction in his mind in all his gains, partly because of his perpetual fears and expectations of the wrath of God and m...

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

  Zophar Pictures the End of the Ungodly

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• Job 20:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ecclesiastes 5:13 ; Ecclesiastes 5:14 ; Isaiah 57:20 ; Isaiah 57:21

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• Job 20:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Belly — He shall have no peace in his mind. Desired — Any part of his desirable things, but shall forfeit and lose them all.

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