Job 21:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. ”

Job 21:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their seed - Their children - their posterity. Is established in their sight - Around them, where they may often see them - where they may enjoy their society. The friends of Job had maintain...
Job 21:8 - 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...
Job 21:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their seed is established - They see their own children grow up, and become settled in the land; and behold...
Job 21:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Job 21:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. In opposition to Job 18:19 ; Job 5:4 ; Jeremiah 12:1 ; Psalms 73:3 , etc.
Job 21:8 - 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...
Job 21:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Their seed is established in their sight. — Not only are they mighty in power themselves, but they leave their power to their children after them (comp. Psalms 17:14 ). This contradicts what Eliph...
Job 21:8 - 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...
Job 21:8 - 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...
Job 21:8 - 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...
Job 21:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(8) Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. (9) Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. (10) Their bull gendereth, and...
Job 21:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Their seed is established in their sight with them ,.... Which is to be understood not of seed sown in the earth, and of the permanence and increase of that, but of their children; to have a numerou...
Job 21:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Ver. 8. Their seed is established in their sight with them ] Some understand it of their seed sown in the...
Job 21:8 - 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....
Job 21:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prosperity of the Wicked; Abuse of Earthly Prosperity. B. C. 1520. 7 Wherefore do the...
Job 21:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Their seed; either, 1. The fruits of their ground; or rather, 2. Their children; as it is explained in the next branch of the verse, the words both here and there used being commonly so underst...
Job 21:8 - 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...
Job 21:8 - 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...
Job 21:8 - 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....
Job 21:8 - 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...
Job 21:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Points out the Difference in Calamities Befalling Men
Job 21:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 18:19 ; Job 20:10 ; Job 20:28 ; Job 5:3 ; Job 5:4 ; Proverbs 17:6

Job 21:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 21:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 21:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 21:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 21:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 21:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 21:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 21:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 21:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 21:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 21:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 21:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 21:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 21:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 21:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 21:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 21:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 21:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 21:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 21:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 21:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 21:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge