Job 20:4

This — Which I am now about to say. Since — Since the world was made.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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....
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. B. C. 1520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH Produces nothing new; much more outspoken than before. Enlarges on the miseries overtaking the wicked, insinuating that J...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Zophar States Why he must Speak
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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,
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 1:28 ; Genesis 9:1-3 ; Job 15:10 ; Job 32:7 ; Job 8:8 ; Job 8:9 ; Psalms 115:16

⁴ Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

Related Commentaries of Job 20:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 20:4