“ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? ”
Wherefore do the wicked live? - Job comes now to the main design of his argument in this chapter, to show that it is a fact, that the wicked often have great prosperity; that they are not treated...
Wherefore do the wicked (d) live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? (d) Job proves against his adversaries that God does not punish the wicked immediately, but often gives them long life and pro...
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...
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Wherefore do the wicked live - You have frequently asserted that the wicked are invariably punished in this life; and that the righ...
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...
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Wherefore do the wicked live. The answer is ( Romans 2:4 ; 1 Timothy 1:16 ; Psalms 73:18 ; Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 ; Luke...
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...
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...
(7) В¶ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Job in this verse reminds his friends of the very different state of the wicked. It is as if he had said, If according to y...
Wherefore do the wicked live ,.... Which question is put either to God himself, as not knowing ow to account for it, or to reconcile it to his divine perfections; that he, a holy, just, and righteou...
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Ver. 7. Wherefore do the wicked live, become old ] Vivunt, veteraseunt, they are lively and longlived, so that they outlast ma...
Wherefore do the wicked live? That is, long and happily: become old? Namely, in their prosperous state: yea, are mighty in power? Are preferred to places of authority and trust, and not only ma...
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...
He expostulates this matter partly with his friends, If things be as you say, how comes this to pass, &c? partly with God himself, Wherefore doth the righteous God distribute things so unequally?...
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...
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Whereas Zophar had maintained that they die early, 20:5, Job here states that they live on, that they reach a ripe old age, that th...
Daniel 4:17 ; Habakkuk 1:15 ; Habakkuk 1:16 ; Jeremiah 12:1-3 ; Job 12:6 ; Psalms 17:10 ; Psalms 37:35 ; Psalms 73:3-12 ; Revelation 13:2-7 ; Revelation 17:2-4