Job 24:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? ”

• Job 24:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar? - A challenge to anyone to prove the contrary to what he had said. Job had now attacked their main position, and had appealed to facts in defense...

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• Job 24:25 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And if [it be] not (z) [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? (z) That is, contrary to your reasoning no man can give perfect reasons for God's judgments, let me be rep...

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• Job 24:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 24. This chapter has since Merx in 1871 been subjected to much criticism, the general trend of which has been to deny the whole or a considerable part of the chapter to Job. Peake, however, con...

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• Job 24:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? And if it be not so now - Job has proved by examples that the righteous are often oppressed; that the wicked of...

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• Job 24:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And if it be not so now— But since this is by no means the case at present, who, &c. See Houb. and Heath. REFLECTIONS.— 1st. The argument in dispute is, whether the wicked were not always...

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• Job 24:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life. Reply of Job to the opinions of the friends. Experience proves the contrary. Translate, 'But He (God) prolo...

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• Job 24:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Seventh Speech (concluded) 1-25. Job continues to express his perplexity at the ways of Providence in the ordering of the world. The poor and the weak suffer; violence and wrong go unpunishe...

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• Job 24:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And if it be not so now. — Job also has his facts, as ready and as incontrovertible as those of his friends, and yet irreconcilable with theirs.

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• Job 24:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XX. WHERE IS ELOAH? Job 23:1-17 ; Job 24:1-25 Job SPEAKS THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind. "Again to...

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• Job 24:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  not Here, but Hereafter Job 24:1-25 Job laments that the times of punishment are not so explained by God, that those who know Him may see and understand His reasons. He then turns to describe t...

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• Job 24:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Passing from the personal aspect of his problem, Job considered it in its wider application. He asked the reason of God's noninterference, and then proceeded to describe the evidences of it. Men stil...

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• Job 24:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (25) And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? Job having finished his sermon, demands of his friends to confront it if they could. The man of Uz, it is evi...

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• Job 24:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And if [it be] not [so] now ,.... If this is not the case of men of such wicked lives as above described, do not prosper in the world, and increase in riches, and do not pass through the world with...

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• Job 24:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? Ver. 25. And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar? ] Quis ementietur me? Who shall disprove or con...

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• Job 24:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And if it be not so now Namely, as I have discoursed; if God does not often suffer wicked men to live long and prosperously in the world, before he punishes them; and if good men be not sometimes s...

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• Job 24:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  DOES GOD FAIL TO GOVERN PROPERLY? (vv.1-12) "Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? Why do not they who know Him see His days?" (v.1 - JND trans.) Job wonders why God (who is Almighty...

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• Job 24:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Ultimate Ruin of the Wicked. B. C. 1520.       18 He is swift as the waters; their portion...

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• Job 24:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  If it be not so now, to wit, as I have discoursed; if God doth not suffer wicked men to live long and prosperously in the world before he punisheth them; and if good men be not sometimes sorely aff...

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• Job 24:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ Prosecutes his own view of the Divine government. Enlarges on the crimes of one part of men and the sufferings of another as the consequences of them, to s...

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• Job 24:25 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Job 24:1 . Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? «Why do they live so long? Why do they appear to have such prosperity?» Job 24:2-4 . Some...

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• Job 24:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 24:3 . They drive away the ass of the fatherless. In Job's time there was no regular government or empire, to bring neighbouring tyrants to justice; proof sufficient that this book is of the h...

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• Job 24:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty. Great crimes not always followed by great punishment in this life I. Great crimes have prevailed on the earth from the earliest times. Amongs...

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• Job 24:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The general subject of this chapter is the prosperity of the wicked, whose proceedings and their results are traced out in detail ( Job 24:2-18 ). A single note of perplexity ( Job 24...

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• Job 24:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Other Cases seem to Support Job's Idea

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• Job 24:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 11:2 ; Job 11:3 ; Job 15:2 ; Job 9:24

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