“ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. ”
They send forth their little ones - Their numerous and happy children they send forth to plays and pastimes. Like a flock - In great numbers. This is an exquisitely beautiful image of prosper...
They send forth their little ones (e) like a flock, and their children dance. (e) They have healthy children and in those points he answers to that which Zophar alleged before.
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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They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. They send forth their little ones - It is not very clear whether this refers to the young of the flocks or to their children....
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...
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. Send forth - namely, out of doors, to their happy sports under the skies, like a joyful flock sent to the pastures....
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...
They send forth their little ones... — In striking contrast to the fate of Job’s own children, and in contradiction to what Eliphaz had said ( Job 15:29-33 ).
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...
“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...
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...
(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...
They send forth their little ones like a flock ,.... Of sheep, which are creatures very increasing, and become very numerous, Psalms 144:13 ; to which a large increase of families may be compared,...
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. Ver. 11. They send forth their little ones like a flock ] Sunt qui de eorum vitulis intelligunt recens natis, saith Merc...
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....
Prosperity of the Wicked; Abuse of Earthly Prosperity. B. C. 1520. 7 Wherefore do the...
Like a flock of sheep or goats, as the word signifies; in great numbers, and with sweet concord; which is a singular delight to them and to their parents.
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...
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...
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....
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...
Job Points out the Difference in Calamities Befalling Men
Psalms 107:41 ; Psalms 127:3-5