Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 21:9
Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them.
9. Not merely themselves and their children but their homes and all in them are full of peace another allusion to the rod of God which had fallen on all belonging to Job.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Their houses are safe from fear – Margin, peace from. The friends of Job had maintained just the contrary; see Job 20:27-28; Job 15:21-24. Their idea was, that the wicked man would never be free from alarms. Job says, that they lived in security and peace, and that their houses are preserved from the intrusions of evil-minded people.
Neither is the rod of God upon them – The rod is an emblem of punishment. The idea is, that they were free from the chastisements which their sins deserved. There can be no doubt that there are cases enough in which the wicked live in security, to justify Job in all that he here affirms, as there are instances enough in which the wicked are cut off for their sins. to make what his friends said plausible. The truth is, good and evil are intermingled. There is a general course of events by which the wicked are involved in calamity in this life, and the righteous are prospered; but still, there are so many exceptions as to show the necessity of a future state of rewards and punishments. To us, who look to that future world, all is clear. But that view of the future state of retribution was not possessed by Job and his friends.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 9. Neither is the rod of God upon them.] They are not afflicted as other men.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
They neither fear nor feel any disturbance.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
9. Literally, “peace fromfear”; with poetic force. Their house is peace itself,far removed from fear. Opposed to the friends’ assertion, as to thebad (Job 15:21-24; Job 20:26-28),and conversely, the good (Job 5:23;Job 5:24).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Their houses [are] safe from fear,…. Of enemies besetting them, entering into them, and pillaging and plundering them; of thieves and robbers breaking into them, and carrying off their substance: or “their houses [are] peace” o; their families live in peace among themselves, or enjoy all prosperity, which the word peace frequently signifies; they have peace and prosperity within doors and are free “from fear”, or devoid of fear, from anything without;
neither [is] the rod of God upon them; neither his rod of chastisement, which is upon his own people, and with which he scourges every son, though in love for their good, and which was now upon Job, Job 9:34; nor any sore judgment, as famine, plague, sword, or any other; no, not even the common afflictions and troubles that men are exercised with.
o “pax”, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Schultens.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(9) Their houses are safe from fear.On the contrary, Zophar had just said that a fire not blown should consume him (Job. 20:26), and Bildad (in Job. 18:15) that destruction should dwell in his tabernacle, and brimstone be scattered on his habitation.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
9. The rod of God In the sense of scourge. Same as in Job 9:34.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 21:9 Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them.
Ver. 9. Their houses are safe from fear ] Seculi laetitia est impunita nequitia. No domestic discords, no foreign disturbances, but peaceable possession and enjoyment of what they have; as much welfare as David wished to Nabal, 1Sa 25:5 : Thus shall ye say to him that lives (that is, that lives prosperously, for that is the only life), Peace be to thee, and to thine house, and to all that thou hast.
Neither is the rod of God upon them
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
are safe = are in peace.
GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
safe from fear: Heb. peace from fear, Job 15:21, Job 18:11, Psa 73:19, Isa 57:19-21
the rod: Job 9:34, Psa 73:5
Reciprocal: Ecc 6:2 – so Luk 17:27 – General