Job 13:4; Job 16:2; Job 32:3; Job 42:7
How then comfort ye me in vain ... - That is, how can you be qualified to give me consolation in my trials, who have such erroneous views of the...
How then comfort (u) ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? (u) Saying that the just in this world have prosperity and the...
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...
falsehood . perverseness. Hebrew. ma'al. App-44.
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? How then comfort ye me in vain - Mr. Good translates: "How vainly t...
Behold, I know your thoughts— By the day of destruction, and the day of wrath, mentioned in the 30th verse, I believe it will appear, from the...
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? Falsehood - literally, wickedness. Your boasted "consolatio...
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...
Job concludes that the arguments of the friends are worthless, since he has shown that the wicked do not get their deserts. So ends the second cycle...
There remaineth falsehood. — Or, all that is left of them is transgression, that is to say, it is not only worthless, but yet more, it is even harm...
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...
“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...
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...
(27) В¶ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. (28) For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and...
REFLECTIONS READER! let us pause over the perusal of this chapter, and, for the moment, drop the recollection of both Job and his friends, to bring...
How then comfort ye me in vain ,.... This is the conclusion Job draws from the above observations: his friends came to comfort him, and they took me...
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? Ver. 34. How then comfort ye me in vain ] Since ye apply nothing...
How then comfort ye me in vain? See then how ill you discharge the office of comforters, whose arguments have so little truth in them. Or, Why do y...
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...
Punishment of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. ...
Why then do you seek to comfort me with vain hopes of recovering my prosperity if I repent, seeing your grounds are manifestly false, and common expe...
JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH The ungodly, instead of experiencing the miseries indicated by Zophar, often, perhaps generally, enjoy con...
Job 21:2 . Consolations. נחם nicham, though mostly translated consolation, comfort &c., as in Isaiah 40:1 ; is in several places understood...
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...
How then comfort ye me in vain? False comfort Some years ago, I met a woman in Philadelphia, who was anxious about her soul, and had been a lon...
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...
Job Rebukes his Friends for their One-Sidedness.
How, then, comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood, and nothing else! Since they cast unfounded suspicions upon the c...
How — Why then do you seek to comfort me with vain hopes of recovering my prosperity, seeing your grounds are false, and experience shews, that goo...
34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?