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Job 21:17. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! — Or, lamp, that is, their glory or outward happiness. I grant that this happens often, though not constantly, as you affirm.
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Job 21:18. They are as stubble before the wind, &c. — That...
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David Guzik commentary on Job 21 describes Job’s answer to Zophar’s second speech, challenging the empty words of his friends, and declaring God's wisdom.
1. (Job 21:17-21) God allows the wicked to prosper, at least in his own day. “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does their destruction come upon them, The sorrows God distributes in His anger? They are like straw before the wind, And like chaff that a storm carries away. They say, ‘God lays up one’s iniquity for his ...
What does Job 21:17 mean? Read commentary on this popular Bible verse and understand the real meaning behind God's Word using John Gill's Exposition of the Bible.
Job 21:17-26. Job had largely described the prosperity of wicked people; now, in these verses, I. He opposes this to what his friends had maintained concerning their certain ruin in this life. "Tell me how often do you see the candle of the wicked put out? Do you not as often see it burnt down to the socket, until it goes out of itself? v. 17.
Now Job begins to look down the road, verse Job 21:17: How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. They are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away ( Job 21:17-18).
Job 21:5. Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. Verses 5, 6. - Here we have an abrupt transition. Job is about to controvert Zophar's theory of the certain retribution that overtakes the wicked man in this life, and to maintain that, on the contrary, he usually prospers (vers. 7-18).
