Job 20:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? ”

Job 20:7 - 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 20:7 - 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 20:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? He shall perish for ever - He is dust, and shall return to the dust from which he was taken. Zopha...
Job 20:7 - 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 20:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? Dung - in contrast to the haughtiness of the sinner ( Job 20:6 ); this strong term expresses d...
Job 20:7 - 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 20:7 - 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 20:7 - 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 20:7 - 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 20:7 - 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 20:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung ,.... Not only in this world, but in the world to come, both in his outward substance here, and in his body in the grave, and in his soul to all eter...
Job 20:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 20:7 [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he? Ver. 7. Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung ] Than the which nothing is m...
Job 20:7 - 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 20:7 - 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 20:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 1 Then answered Zophar...
Job 20:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Like his own dung; which men cast away with contempt and abhorrency. Compare 1 Kings 14:10 2 Kings 9:37 . They which have seen him, with admiration at his felicity. Where is he? i.e. he is...
Job 20:7 - 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 20:7 - 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 20:7 - 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 20:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Zophar Pictures the End of the Ungodly
Job 20:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 14:10 ; 2 Kings 9:37 ; Jeremiah 8:2 ; Job 14:10 ; Psalms 83:10

Job 20:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Job 20:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 20:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 20:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 20:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 20:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 20:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 20:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 20:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 20:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 20:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 20:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 20:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 20:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 20:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 20:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 20:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 20:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge