Chapter 20:
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Job 20
Zophar, after a short preface, asserts, that the prosperity, of
the wicked is short, and his ruin sure, ver. 1-9. He describes his
misery in many particulars, ver. 10-29.
Verse 2. Therefore - For this thy severe sentence. Make haste - I speak
sooner than I intended. And possibly interrupted Job, when he
was proceeding in his discourse.
Verse 3. The check - Thy opprobrious reproofs of us. Understanding - I
speak, not from passion, but certain knowledge.
Verse 4. This - Which I am now about to say. Since - Since the world
was made.
Verse 6. Though - Though he be advanced to great dignity and authority.
Verse 11. Bones - His whole body, even the strongest parts of it. The sin
- Of the punishment of it.
Verse 12. Mouth - To his taste; though it greatly please him for the
present. Hide - As an epicure doth a sweet morsel, which he keeps
and rolls about his mouth, that he may longer enjoy the pleasure
of it.
Verse 14. Turned - From sweet to bitter. Gall of asps - Exceeding bitter
and pernicious. Gall is most bitter; the gall of serpents is full of
poison; and the poison of asps is most dangerous and within a few
hours kills without remedy.
Verse 15. Vomit - Be forced to restore them. God, &c. - If no man's
hand can reach him, God shall find him out.
Verse 17. See - Not enjoy that abundant satisfaction and comfort, which
good men through God's blessings enjoy.
Verse 18. Swallow - So as to hold it. He shall not possess it long, nor to
any considerable purpose. Yea, he shall be forced to part with his
estate to make compensations for his wrongs. So that he shall not
enjoy what he had gotten, because it shall be taken from him.
Verse 20. Belly - He shall have no peace in his mind. Desired - Any part
of his desirable things, but shall forfeit and lose them all.
Verse 21. Therefore - It being publickly known that he was totally
ruined, none of his kindred shall trouble themselves about any
relicks of his estate.
Verse 22. In, &c. - In the height of prosperity he shall be distressed.
Hand, &c. - So his wickedness shall be punished by those as
wicked as himself.
Verse 23. Rain - This phrase denotes both the author of his plagues,
God, and the nature and quality of them, that they shall come
upon him like rain; with great vehemency, so that he cannot
prevent or avoid it. Eating - As it fell upon thy sons.
Verse 24. Flee - From the sword or spear; and so shall think him self out
of danger.
Verse 25. It - The arrow, which had entered into his body, and now was
drawn out of it either by himself or some other person; having in
general said, that it came out of his body, he determines also the
part of the body, the gall; which shews that the wound was both
deep and deadly. Terrors - The terrors of death; because he
perceived his wound was incurable.
Verse 26. Darkness - All sorts of miseries. Hid - Or, laid up; by God for
him. It is reserved and treasured up for him, and shall infallibly
overtake him. Secret - In those places where he confidently hopes
to hide himself from all evil: even there God shall find him out.
Not blown - By man, but kindled by God himself. He thinks by
his might and violence to secure himself from men, but God will
find him out. With him - With his family, who shall inherit his
curse as well as his estate.
Verse 27. Heaven - God shall be a swift witness against him by
extraordinary judgments; still he reflects upon Job's case, and the
fire from heaven. Earth - All creatures upon earth shall conspire to
destroy him. If the God of heaven and earth be his enemy, neither
heaven nor earth will shew him any kindness, but all the host of
both are, and will he at war with him.
Verse 28. Increase of his house - His estate. Depart - Shall be lost. Flow
- Like waters, swiftly and strongly, and so as to return no more.
His - Of God's wrath.
Verse 29. Heritage - Hebrew. the heritage; so called, to denote the
stability and assurance of it, that it is as firm as an inheritance to
the right heir; and in opposition to that inheritance which he had
gotten by fraud and violence.
Chapter 20:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Esther Psalms
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