Job 20:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. ”

• Job 20:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  It is drawn - Or rather, “he draws” - that is, he draws out the arrow that has been shot at him; or it may mean, as Prof. Lee supposes, that he draws, that is, “someone” draws the arrow from its...

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• Job 20:25 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  It is drawn, and cometh out of the (n) body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him. (n) Some read, of the quiver.

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• Job 20:25 - 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 20:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. It is drawn, and cometh out - This refers to archery: The arrow is drawn out of the...

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• Job 20:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. It is drawn - literally, 'He (God) draweth (the sword, Joshua 5:13 ), and (no...

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• Job 20:25 - 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 20:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Yea, terrors overtake him. — Even when he has escaped a second and a third calamity, terrors shall still be upon him. This was all perfectly true in a sense, yea, even a truism, but it was utterly...

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• Job 20:25 - 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 20:25 - 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 20:25 - 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 20:25 - 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 20:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  It is drawn, and cometh out of the body ,.... That is, the arrow with which a wicked man is stricken through; either it is drawn, and comes out of the quiver, as Broughton; or rather is drawn out of...

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• Job 20:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him. Ver. 25. It is drawn, and cometh out of the body ] That is, the arrow out of the...

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• Job 20:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He shall flee from the iron weapon That is, from the sword or spear; and so shall think himself out of danger. The bow of steel Which is of great strength, and therefore sendeth forth the arrow...

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• Job 20:25 - 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 20:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.   24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the b...

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• Job 20:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  It is drawn; either, 1. A sword, which may be understood out of this Hebrew verb, which is for the most part used of that weapon, as Numbers 22:23,31 Jud 8:20 , &c., and out of the followi...

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• Job 20:25 - 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 20:25 - 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 20:25 - 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 20:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Zophar Pictures the End of the Ungodly

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• Job 20:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 5:11 ; 2 Samuel 18:14 ; Deuteronomy 32:41 ; Jeremiah 20:3 ; Jeremiah 20:4 ; Job 15:21 ; Job 16:13 ; Job 18:11 ; Job 27:20 ; Job 6:4 ; Psalms 7:12 ; Psalms 73:19 ; Psalms 88...

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• Job 20:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  It — The arrow, which had entered into his body, and now was drawn out of it either by himself or some other person; having in general said, that it came out of his body, he determines also the par...

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