Job 20:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. ”

• Job 20:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  “There shall none of his meat be left Margin, “or, be none left for his meat.” Noyes renders it, “Because nothing escaped his greatness.” Prof. Lee, “no surviver shall remain for his provision.” Bu...

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• Job 20:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  There shall none of his (k) meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. (k) He will leave nothing to his posterity.

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• Job 20:21 - 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 20:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. There shall none of his meat be left - Coverdale translates thus: He devoured so gredily, that he left nothinge behynd...

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• Job 20:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. There shall none of his meat be left. Maurer translates 'Nothing was left to his voracity' - i:e., nothing esc...

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• Job 20:21 - 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 20:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  There shall none of his meat be left. — Rather, There was nothing left that he devoured not, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

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• Job 20:21 - 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 20:21 - 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 20:21 - 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 20:21 - 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 20:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  There shall none of his meat be left ,.... Not in his belly, all shall be cast up; none of his substance left for himself or others; none of his riches for his children or heirs, all being consumed:...

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• Job 20:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. Ver. 21. There shall none of his meat be left ] Zophar still pursueth the allegory of the belly; and in all striket...

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• Job 20:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  There shall none of his meat be left , &c. For his future use; but he shall be stripped of all, which being publicly known, none of his kindred or friends shall trouble themselves to seek for an...

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• Job 20:21 - 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 20:21 - 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 20:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  None of his meat be left for his own future use; but he shall be stripped of all. Therefore shall no man look for his goods; it being publicly known and observed that he was totally ruined, none...

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• Job 20:21 - 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 20:21 - 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 20:21 - 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 20:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Zophar Pictures the End of the Ungodly

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• Job 20:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Jeremiah 17:11 ; Job 18:19 ; Luke 16:24 ; Luke 16:25

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• Job 20:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Therefore — It being publickly known that he was totally ruined, none of his kindred shall trouble themselves about any relicks of his estate.

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