Bible Commentary

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 11. Their children, numerous like the flock and happy like the lambs, skip in their glee and sport. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges They send forth their little ones – Their numerous and happy children they send forth to … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 21:11”

Their bull engendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 10. Their cattle thrives no failure or barrenness assails them. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Their bull gendereth – See Rosenmuller and Lee on this verse; comp Bochart, Hieroz. P. 1, Lib. ii. c. xxx. The general idea … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 21:10”

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 … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 21:9”

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 8. They have the additional felicity of seeing their children grow up beside them a pathetic touch from the hand of the man whose sons had been taken from him. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Their seed … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 21:8”

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 7. Wherefore do the wicked live ] The question scarcely means, How is it, if your principles be true, that the wicked live? Job’s mind is engrossed with the great problem itself, and he asks, Why in the government of a righteous God … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 21:7”

Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. 6. When Job himself reflects on it he trembles. When I remember means, When I think of it. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Even when I remember, I am afraid – I have an internal shuddering and horror … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 21:6”

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth. 5. The mystery which he will lay before them if they will mark it will strike them dumb. To “lay the hand upon the mouth” is a gesture of awe-struck silence, cf. ch. Job 40:4. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 21:5”

As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled? 4. is my complaint to man ] Rather, of, or, concerning man. The whole first clause means, Is my complaint about man? my emphatic. The words may express a reason for their listening to him, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 21:4”

Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. 3. mock on ] This last word is sing. and seems addressed to Zophar the last speaker, whose pictures of the fate of the wicked deeply wounded Job. Having heard his account of the prosperity of the wicked, they shall have … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 21:3”

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. 2. your consolations ] They believed they were offering him the consolations of God (ch. Job 15:11); the consolation he seeks from them is that they listen to him. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Hear diligently – Hebrew Hearing hear – that … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 21:2”