“ Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, ”
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? - Travelers, who have passed into other countries, and who have had an opportunity of making observations, and of learning the opinions of those residin...
Have ye (q) not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, (q) Who through long travailing have experience and tokens of it, that is, that the wicked prosper, and the godly live...
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...
Have ye not. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, Have ye not asked them that go by the way? - This appears to be Job's answer. Consult travelers who have gone through diffe...
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...
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, Job, seeing that the friends will not admit him as an impartial judge, as they consider his calamities prove his gui...
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...
Their tokens — i.e., the marks and evidences of their experience, and the conclusions at which they had arrived.
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...
(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)...
Have ye not asked them that go by the way ?.... Did you not ask every traveller you met with on the road the above question? not which was the way to Job's house, which they knew very well, but in w...
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, Ver. 29. Have ye not asked them that go by the way? ] The cause of their rash judgment, Job showeth here to be their ign...
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? In these verses we have an answer to the preceding question; as if he had said, Even the travellers that pass along the road can inform you: it is so vulg...
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....
Punishment of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices...
These are the words, either, 1. Of Job's friends, who thus continue their former discourse by a second inquiry; or rather, 2. Of Job himself, who answers one question with another. You may learn...
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 Rebukes his Friends for their One-Sidedness.
Psalms 129:8
Them — Any person that passes along the high — way, every one you meet with. It is so vulgar a thing, that no man of common sense is ignorant of it. Tokens — The examples, or evidences, of this tru...