Job 21:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. ”

• Job 21:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Behold, I know your thoughts - That is, “I see that you are not satisfied, and that you are disposed still to maintain your former position. You will be ready to ask, Where “are” the proofs of th...

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• Job 21:27 - 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 21:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. I know your thoughts - Ye still think that, because I am grievously afflicted, I must therefore be a felonious...

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• Job 21:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Behold, I know your thoughts— By the day of destruction, and the day of wrath, mentioned in the 30th verse, I believe it will appear, from the context, can be meant no other than the future day...

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• Job 21:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. Their wrongful thoughts against Job are stated by him in Job 21:28 . They do not honestly name Job, but i...

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• Job 21:27 - 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 21:27 - 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 21:27 - 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 21:27 - 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 21:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (27) В¶ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. (28) For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? (29)...

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• Job 21:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Behold, I know your thoughts ,.... God only truly, really, and in fact, knows the thoughts of men; this is his peculiar prerogative, he only is the searcher of the hearts and the trier of the reins...

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• Job 21:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me. Ver. 27. Behold, I know your thoughts ] sc. By your words; as it is no hard matter for a wise man to do,...

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• Job 21:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, I know your thoughts I perceive what you think and will object for your own defence; and the devices Hebrew, ומזמות, umezimmoth, machinationes pravas, the evil thoughts , or, wicked des...

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• Job 21:27 - 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 21:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Punishment of the Wicked. B. C. 1520.       27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices...

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• Job 21:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I know your thoughts; I perceive what you think, and will object, and say for your own defence. The devices, or, evil thoughts ; for so this word is oft used, as Proverbs 12:2 Proverbs 14:17...

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• Job 21:27 - 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 21:27 - 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 21:27 - 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 21:27 - 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 21:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Behold, I know your thoughts, Job knows the plans of their hearts, and the devices, the careful reasonings, the schemes, which ye wrongfully imagine against me, doing violence to him by trying to...

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• Job 21:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 2:19 ; Job 15:20-35 ; Job 20:29 ; Job 20:5 ; Job 32:3 ; Job 4:8-11 ; Job 42:7 ; Job 5:3-5 ; Job 8:3-6 ; Luke 5:22 ; Psalms 119:86 ; Psalms 59:4

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• Job 21:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Me — I know that your discourses, though they be of wicked, men in general, yet are particularly levelled at me.

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