Job 21:16

Ecclesiastes 8:8; Genesis 49:6; Job 1:21; Job 12:10; Job 12:9; Job 22:18; Luke 16:2; Luke 16:25; Proverbs 1:10; Proverbs 5:8; Psalms 1:1; Psalms 49:6; Psalms 49:7; Psalms 52:5-7

Related Commentaries of Job 21:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lo, their good is not in their hand - Schultens, Rosenmuller, and Noyes, suppose, I think, correctly, that this is to be understood ironically, o...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Lo, their good [is] not in their (h) hand: the counsel of the wicked (i) is far from me. (h) It is not their own, but God only lends it to them. (i...
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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Their good is not in their hand - With all their boasting and self-d...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lo, their good is not in their hand— After the foregoing elegant description of the prosperity of some wicked men, Job proceeds, on the other hand,...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Not in their hand - but in the hand of God. This is Job's diff...
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 l...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lo, their good, etc.] It may mean, They cannot control their fortunes: it must be God who has prospered them. Is far ] rather, 'be far.' Job repud...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

L o, their good ( i.e., their prosperity) is not in their own hand. — And that constitutes the mystery of it, for it is God who gives it to them;...
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...
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 ar...
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 illustrati...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(14) Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. (15) What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? a...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lo, their good [is] not in their hand ,.... Though it is in their possession for the present, it is not in the power of their hands to keep, nor to...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Ver. 16. Lo, their good is not in their hand ] That is, they ar...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lo, their good is not in their hand These words, says Chappelow, will be more consistent with what goes before, if read with an interrogation; name...
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 incens...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prosperity of the Wicked; Abuse of Earthly Prosperity. B. C. 1520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Their good is not in their hand: this seems to be an answer to the foregoing question, and a confutation of that ungodly opinion and practice, Jo...
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 con...
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...
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...
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 introductor...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Points out the Difference in Calamities Befalling Men
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lo, their god is not in their hand! Their prosperity, as Job contends, surely cannot be a matter of their own power; God must in some way be connecte...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Lo — But wicked men have no reason to reject God, because of their prosperity, for their wealth, is not in their hand; neither obtained, nor kept b...

¹⁶ Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Related Commentaries of Job 21:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 21:16