Job 21:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. ”

• Job 21:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  They are as stubble before the wind - According to the interpretation proposed of the previous verse, this may be read as a question, “How often is it that the wicked are made like stubble? You s...

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• Job 21:18 - 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 21:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  They: i.e. [How oft] they. stubble . crushed straw. Hebrew. teben (not kash = straw. wind. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.

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• Job 21:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. They are as stubble before the wind - "His fan is in his hand; he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and the chaff he w...

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• Job 21:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• Job 21:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. Job alludes to a like sentiment of Bildad ( Job 18:18 ), using his own previous words ( Job 13:25 ). Chaff -...

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• Job 21:18 - 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 21:18 - 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 21:18 - 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 21:18 - 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 21:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 21:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  They are as stubble before the wind ,.... Or how oft "are they as stubble?" c. or how oft does God do the above things, "so that they are", or "become, as stubble before the wind" u, and as chaff...

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• Job 21:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. Ver. 18. They are as stubble before the wind ] Lest any man should say, How can these things befall those that are s...

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• Job 21:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They are as stubble before the wind , &c. That is, their destruction shall be speedy, certain, and irrecoverable. Thus he goes on to concede to his adversaries, “that wicked men are sometimes th...

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• Job 21:18 - 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 21:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Certain Punishments of the Wicked; Divine Sovereignty. B. C. 1520.       17 How oft is the c...

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• Job 21:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  i.e. Their destruction shall be speedy, and certain, and irrecoverable.

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• Job 21:18 - 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 21:18 - 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 21:18 - 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 21:18 - 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 21:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Points out the Difference in Calamities Befalling Men

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• Job 21:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 15:7 ; Hosea 13:3 ; Isaiah 17:13 ; Isaiah 29:5 ; Isaiah 40:24 ; Isaiah 41:15 ; Isaiah 41:16 ; Isaiah 5:24 ; Jeremiah 13:24 ; Job 13:25 ; Matthew 3:12 ; Nahum 1:10 ; Psalms 1:4 ;...

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