“ Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. ”
Lo, their good is not in their hand - Schultens, Rosenmuller, and Noyes, suppose, I think, correctly, that this is to be understood ironically, or as referring to what “they” had maintained. “Lo!...
Lo, their good [is] not in their (h) hand: the counsel of the wicked (i) is far from me. (h) It is not their own, but God only lends it to them. (i) God keep me from their prosperity.
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...
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Their good is not in their hand - With all their boasting and self-dependence, God only lends them his bounty; and tho...
Lo, their good is not in their hand— After the foregoing elegant description of the prosperity of some wicked men, Job proceeds, on the other hand, to confess what was likewise apparent in the ways...
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Not in their hand - but in the hand of God. This is Job's difficulty, that God, who has sinners' prosperity (goo...
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...
L o, their good ( i.e., their prosperity) is not in their own hand. — And that constitutes the mystery of it, for it is God who gives it to them; or the words may be a hypothetical answer to his...
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...
(14) Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. (15) What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him...
Lo, their good [is] not in their hand ,.... Though it is in their possession for the present, it is not in the power of their hands to keep, nor to carry it with them when they die; God, that gave i...
Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Ver. 16. Lo, their good is not in their hand ] That is, they are not enriched by their own industry, prudence, pi...
Lo, their good is not in their hand These words, says Chappelow, will be more consistent with what goes before, if read with an interrogation; namely, Lo, is not their good in their hand? that is,...
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...
Their good is not in their hand: this seems to be an answer to the foregoing question, and a confutation of that ungodly opinion and practice, Job 21:14,15 . Wicked men (saith he) have no reason...
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
Ecclesiastes 8:8 ; Genesis 49:6 ; Job 1:21 ; Job 12:10 ; Job 12:9 ; Job 22:18 ; Luke 16:2 ; Luke 16:25 ; Proverbs 1:10 ; Proverbs 5:8 ; Psalms 1:1 ; Psalms 49:6 ; Psalms 49:7 ; Psalms 5...
Lo — But wicked men have no reason to reject God, because of their prosperity, for their wealth, is not in their hand; neither obtained, nor kept by their own might, but only by God's power and fav...