Job 21:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. ”

• Job 21:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Their bull gendereth - See Rosenmuller and Lee on this verse; comp Bochart, Hieroz. P. 1, Lib. ii. c. xxx. The general idea is, that the wicked were prospered as well as the pious. God did not in...

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• Job 21:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 21. Job's Reply. Zophar was graphic and vigorous, but had nothing to say. Nevertheless his speech suggests to Job his next argument. The facts are quite the opposite of what Zophar has said: th...

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• Job 21:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  their . each.

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• Job 21:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. Their bull gendereth - עבר ibbar, passes over, i.e., on the cow, referring to the actions of the bull when coupling...

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• Job 21:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Mark me, and be admonished, &c.— The coldest reader cannot be insensible of the beauties of the poetry in this speech of Job. We will not, therefore, attempt to point them out, but attend to th...

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• Job 21:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. Their cattle (i:e., cows) conceive. The first clause of the verse describes an easy conception, the second a...

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• Job 21:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Sixth Speech Zophar, like the other friends, had insisted on the certain retribution for sin which befalls the wicked in this life. Now at length these views draw from Job a direct contradic...

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• Job 21:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XVIII. ARE THE WAYS OF THE LORD EQUAL? Job 21:1-34 Job SPEAKS WITH less of personal distress and a more collected mind than before Job begins a reply to Zophar. His brave hope of vindication...

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• Job 21:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Shall Any Teach God?” Job 21:1-34 After a brief introduction, in which he claims the right to reply, Job 21:1-6 , Job brings forward a new argument. He affirms that his friends are wrong in a...

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• Job 21:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here, as in the first cycle, Job answered not merely Zophar, but the whole argument. First of all, he set over against their statement and illustrations the fact patent to all that often the wicked a...

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• Job 21:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (8) Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. (9) Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. (10) Their bull gendereth, and...

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• Job 21:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Their bull gendereth, and faileth not ,.... As the wicked man's prosperity is described before by the increase and comfortable settlement of his children and grandchildren, and by the peace and safe...

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• Job 21:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. Ver. 10. Their bull gendereth, and faileth not, &c. ] All things hit, and nothing misseth to make them happy...

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• Job 21:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB SILENCES ZOPHAR (vv.1-34). The callous cruelty of Zophar's speech would surely cause some men to be bitterly angry, but while Job was incensed by such treatment, he did not lose his temper....

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• Job 21:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Prosperity of the Wicked; Abuse of Earthly Prosperity. B. C. 1520.       7 Wherefore do the...

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• Job 21:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Job 21:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH The ungodly, instead of experiencing the miseries indicated by Zophar, often, perhaps generally, enjoy continued ease and prosperity in this life. I. Intr...

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• Job 21:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 21:2 . Consolations. נחם nicham, though mostly translated consolation, comfort &c., as in Isaiah 40:1 ; is in several places understood of a change of mind, or of repentance. So in Jud...

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• Job 21:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But Job answered and said. Job’s third answer There is more logic and less passion in this address than in any of Job’s preceding speeches. He felt the dogma of the friends to be opposed-- I....

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• Job 21:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 21:1-18 Job answers Zophar, as he had answered Bildad, in a single not very lengthy chapter. After a few caustic introductory remarks (verses 2-4), he takes up the challenge...

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• Job 21:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Points out the Difference in Calamities Befalling Men

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• Job 21:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 28:11 ; Deuteronomy 7:13 ; Deuteronomy 7:14 ; Ecclesiastes 9:1 ; Ecclesiastes 9:2 ; Exodus 23:26 ; Luke 12:16-21 ; Luke 16:19 ; Psalms 144:13 ; Psalms 144:14

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