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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.
Thy ways are spiritual; we wish to live after the flesh. We have learned to do our own will; we do not wish to study thine.” (Clarke) B. The wisdom of God and the prosperity of the wicked. 1. (Job 21:17-21) God allows the wicked to prosper, at least in his own day.
Verse 5. - Mark me; literally, look to me; i.e. "attend to me," for I am about to say something well worth attention. And be astonished. Prepare yourselves, i.e., for something that will astonish you. And lay your hand upon your mouth. Harpocrates, the Egyptian god of silence, was often represented with his finger on his lips (see the author's ...
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.
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).
How often the lamps of the wicked will be extinguished, and ruin will come upon them! He will distribute corruption in his anger! Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.
