“ They spend their days in wealth,c and in a moment go down to the grave. ”
They spend their days in wealth - Margin, or, “mirth.” Literally, “they wear out their days in good” - בטוב baṭôb . Vulgate “in bonis.” Septuagint, ἐν ἀγαθοῖς en agathois - “in...
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment (f) go down to the grave. (f) Not being tormented with long sickness.
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...
go down . get dashed. the grave. Hebrew. Sheol. App-35.
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. They spend their days in wealth - There is a various reading here of some importance. In the text we have יבלו yeballu, they gro...
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 spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Wealth - old English for prosperity. In a moment - not by a lingering disease. Great blessings! Lengthened life, wit...
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...
In a moment. — They go down to death without being made to feel the lingering tortures that Job had to undergo.
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 spend their days in wealth ,.... Or "in good" p; not in the performance of good works, or in the exercise of that which is spiritually good; or in seeking after spiritual good things, or eterna...
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Ver. 13. They spend their days in wealth ] Or, in mirth. Heb. In good. They wallow in wealth, and have the world at their wil...
They spend their days in wealth Hebrews בשׂוב, batob, in good: εν αγαθοις, LXX., in good things: in deliciis, in delights , Arab. ver: that is, in the enjoyment of all the good things of this li...
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...
In wealth; in good, i.e. in the enjoyment of all the good things of this life, without any mixture of evil. They do not die of a lingering and tormenting disease, as I now and many other good men d...
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...
grave Hebrew, "Sheol," ( See Scofield) - ( Habakkuk 2:5 ).
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
Job 36:11 ; Luke 12:19 ; Luke 12:20 ; Luke 17:28 ; Luke 17:29 ; Matthew 24:38 ; Matthew 24:39 ; Psalms 73:4
Moment — They do not die of a lingering and tormenting disease.