Genesis 1:28; Genesis 9:1-3; Job 15:10; Job 32:7; Job 8:8; Job 8:9; Psalms 115:16
Knowest thou not this of old - That is, dost thou not know that this has always happened from the beginning of the world, or that this is the inv...
Job 20. Second Speech of Zophar. Zophar helps the return to the wider problem by appearing once more with a strong doctrine as to the shortness of...
Knowest thou not this? This was Zophar's reply to Job in Job 19:25 , implying that Job had no such hope. of old . from of old. man. Hebrew....
DISCOURSE: 470 AGAINST HYPOCRISY Job 20:4-7 . Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, that the triumphing of the wicked i...
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, Knowest thou not this of old - This is a maxim as ancient as the world; it began wit...
Knowest thou not, &c.— The latter clause of Job 20:4 might as well have been rendered, Since Adam was placed on the earth. There is no reas...
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, Knowest thou not? From thy way of behaving, one would think thou didst not kno...
Zophar's Second Speech Zophar ignores Job's conviction that God will one day establish his innocence, and proceeds to describe the short triumph o...
XVII. IGNORANT CRITICISM OF LIFE Job 20:1-29 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE great saying that quickens our faith and carries thought into a higher world c...
“The Triumphing of the Wicked” Job 20:1-29 Zophar is the man who least of all understood Job. The rebuke which Job had just administered, Job...
With evident haste, Zophar replied. His speech is introduced with an apology for his haste and a confession of his anger. He had heard the reproof, b...
(4) Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, (5) That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but f...
Knowest thou [not] this of old ,.... Or "from eternity" g, from the beginning of time, ever since the world was; as if he should say, if you are the...
Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth, Ver. 4. Knowest thou not this of old ] Whether Zophar intended his own conscience...
Knowest thou not this Which I am now about to say; of old From the experience of all former ages; since man was placed upon the earth Since th...
THE WICKED MAN'S BRIEF TRIUMPH (vv.1-5) Zophar does not even consider the possibility that Job is not wicked, but again strongly condemns the wi...
Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. B. C. 1520....
i.e. This which I am now about to say. How canst thou, thou, I say, who pretendest to such an exact and universal knowledge of men and things, be...
ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH Produces nothing new; much more outspoken than before. Enlarges on the miseries overtaking the wicked, insinuating that J...
Job 20:2 . I make haste to answer, for thou reproachest both God and us. Zophar had felt the point of Job's sword, in the preseding discourse; but...
That the triumphing of the wicked is short. The triumph of the wicked The words of the text are indisputably true, though misapplied. In the wo...
EXPOSITION Job 20:1-18 Zophar's second speech is even more harsh than his first ( Job 11:1-18 .). He adds coarseness and rudeness to his fo...
Zophar States Why he must Speak
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, since earth was inhabited, as far as the accounts of men go back,
This — Which I am now about to say. Since — Since the world was made.
4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,