Job 20:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;b ”

Job 20:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens - Though he attain to the highest pitch of honor and prosperity. The Septuagint renders this, “Though his gifts should go up to heaven, and his sacri...
Job 20:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Though (b) his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; (b) His purpose is to prove Job to be a wicked man, and a hypocrite, because God punished him, and changed his...
Job 20:6 - 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...
Job 20:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 470 AGAINST HYPOCRISY Job 20:4-7 . Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a mo...
Job 20:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; Though his excellency mount up to the heavens - Probably referring to the original state of Adam, of whose fall he a...
Job 20:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Knowest thou not, &c.— The latter clause of Job 20:4 might as well have been rendered, Since Adam was placed on the earth. There is no reason to doubt but that this passage refers to the fa...
Job 20:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; ( Isaiah 14:13 ).
Job 20:6 - 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...
Job 20:6 - 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....
Job 20:6 - 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...
Job 20:6 - 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...
Job 20:6 - 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...
Job 20:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens ,.... Though, in worldly grandeur and glory, he should arrive to such a pitch as the Assyrian monarch was ambitious of, as to ascend into heaven, exalt...
Job 20:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; Ver. 6. Though his excellency mount up to the heavens ] Though he conceit himself, and would have others hold him...
Job 20:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens Though he be advanced to great dignity and authority in the world. He shall perish like his own dung Which men cast away with contempt and abhorrence...
Job 20:6 - 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...
Job 20:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 1 Then answered Zophar...
Job 20:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Though he be advanced to great dignity and authority in the world.
Job 20:6 - 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...
Job 20:6 - 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...
Job 20:6 - 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 )....
Job 20:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, that is, his ambitious plans, his exaltation in rank and power, and his head reach unto the clouds, the ungodly apparently gaining all that his heart...
Job 20:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 9:2 ; Daniel 4:11 ; Daniel 4:22 ; Genesis 11:4 ; Isaiah 14:13 ; Isaiah 14:14 ; Matthew 11:23 ; Obadiah 1:3 ; Obadiah 1:4
Job 20:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Though — Though he be advanced to great dignity and authority.

Job 20:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 20:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 20:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Job 20:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 20:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 20:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 20:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 20:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 20:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 20:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 20:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 20:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 20:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 20:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 20:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 20:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 20:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 20:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 20:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 20:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 20:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes