1ὙπολαβὼνG5274{V-AAPNS} δὲG1161{PRT} ΙωβG2492{N-PRI} λέγειG3004{V-PAI-3S} 2ἈκούσατεG191{V-AAD-2P} ἀκούσατέG191{V-AAD-2P} μουG1473{P-GS} τῶνG3588{T-GPM} λόγωνG3056{N-GPM}, ἵναG2443{CONJ} μὴG3165{ADV} ᾖG1510{V-PAS-3S} μοιG1473{P-DS} παρ᾽G3844{PREP} ὑμῶνG4771{P-GP} αὕτηG3778{D-NSF} ἡG3588{T-NSF} παράκλησιςG3874{N-NSF}. 3ἄρατέG142{V-AAD-2P} μεG1473{P-AS}, ἐγὼG1473{P-NS} δὲG1161{PRT} λαλήσωG2980{V-FAI-1S}, εἶτG1534{ADV} οὐG3364{ADV} καταγελάσετέG2606{V-FAI-2P} μουG1473{P-GS}. 4τίG5100{I-ASN} γάρG1063{PRT}; μὴG3165{ADV} ἀνθρώπουG444{N-GSM} μουG1473{P-GS} ἡG3588{T-NSF} ἔλεγξιςG1649{N-NSF}; ἢG2228{CONJ} διὰG1223{PREP} τίG5100{I-ASN} οὐG3364{ADV} θυμωθήσομαιG2373{V-FPI-1S}; 5εἰσβλέψαντες{V-AAPNP} εἰςG1519{PREP} ἐμὲG1473{P-AS} θαυμάσατεG2296{V-AAD-2P} χεῖραG5495{N-ASF} θέντεςG5087{V-AAPNP} ἐπὶG1909{PREP} σιαγόνιG4600{N-DSF}. 6ἐάνG1437{CONJ} τεG5037{PRT} γὰρG1063{PRT} μνησθῶG3403{V-APS-1S}, ἐσπούδακαG4704{V-RAI-1S}, ἔχουσινG2192{V-PAI-3P} δέG1161{PRT} μουG1473{P-GS} τὰςG3588{T-APF} σάρκαςG4561{N-APF} ὀδύναιG3601{N-NPF}. 7διὰG1223{PREP} τίG5100{I-ASN} ἀσεβεῖςG765{A-NPM} ζῶσινG2198{V-PAI-3P}, πεπαλαίωνταιG3822{V-RMI-3P} δὲG1161{PRT} καὶG2532{CONJ} ἐνG1722{PREP} πλούτῳG4149{N-DSM}; 8ὁG3588{T-NSM} σπόροςG4703{N-NSM} αὐτῶνG846{D-GPM} κατὰG2596{PREP} ψυχήνG5590{N-ASF}, τὰG3588{T-NPN} δὲG1161{PRT} τέκναG5043{N-NPN} αὐτῶνG846{D-GPM} ἐνG1722{PREP} ὀφθαλμοῖςG3788{N-DPM}. 9οἱG3588{T-NPM} οἶκοιG3624{N-NPM} αὐτῶνG846{D-GPM} εὐθηνοῦσιν{V-PAI-3P}, φόβοςG5401{N-NSM} δὲG1161{PRT} οὐδαμοῦ{ADV}, μάστιξG3148{N-NSF} δὲG1161{PRT} παρὰG3844{PREP} κυρίουG2962{N-GSM} οὐκG3364{ADV} ἔστινG1510{V-PAI-3S} ἐπ᾽G1909{PREP} αὐτοῖςG846{D-DPM}. 10ἡG3588{T-NSF} βοῦςG1016{N-NSF} αὐτῶνG846{D-GPM} οὐκG3364{ADV} ὠμοτόκησεν{V-AAI-3S}, διεσώθηG1295{V-API-3S} δὲG1161{PRT} αὐτῶνG846{D-GPM} ἐνG1722{PREP} γαστρὶG1064{N-DSF} ἔχουσαG2192{V-PAPNS} καὶG2532{CONJ} οὐκG3364{ADV} ἔσφαλενG4969{V-AAI-3S}. 11μένουσινG3306{V-PAI-3P} δὲG1161{PRT} ὡςG3739{CONJ} πρόβαταG4263{N-APN} αἰώνιαG166{A-APN}, τὰG3588{T-APN} δὲG1161{PRT} παιδίαG3813{N-APN} αὐτῶνG846{D-GPM} προσπαίζουσιν{V-PAI-3P} 12ἀναλαβόντεςG353{V-AAPNP} ψαλτήριον{N-ASN} καὶG2532{CONJ} κιθάρανG2788{N-ASF} καὶG2532{CONJ} εὐφραίνονταιG2165{V-PPI-3P} φωνῇG5456{N-DSF} ψαλμοῦG5568{N-GSM}. 13συνετέλεσανG4931{V-AAI-3P} δὲG1161{PRT} ἐνG1722{PREP} ἀγαθοῖςG18{A-DPM} τὸνG3588{T-ASM} βίονG979{N-ASM} αὐτῶνG846{D-GPM}, ἐνG1722{PREP} δὲG1161{PRT} ἀναπαύσειG372{N-DSF} ᾅδουG86{N-GSM} ἐκοιμήθησανG2837{V-API-3P}. 14λέγειG3004{V-PAI-3S} δὲG1161{PRT} κυρίῳG2962{N-DSM} ἈπόσταG868{V-AAD-2S} ἀπ᾽G575{PREP} ἐμοῦG1473{P-GS}, ὁδούςG3598{N-APF} σουG4771{P-GS} εἰδέναιG1492{V-RAN} οὐG3364{ADV} βούλομαιG1014{V-PMI-1S}· 15τίG5100{I-NSN} ἱκανόςG2425{A-NSM}, ὅτιG3754{CONJ} δουλεύσομενG1398{V-FAI-1P} αὐτῷG846{D-DSM}; καὶG2532{CONJ} τίςG5100{I-NSN} ὠφέλειαG5622{N-NSF}, ὅτιG3754{CONJ} ἀπαντήσομενG528{V-FAI-1P} αὐτῷG846{D-DSM}; 16ἐνG1722{PREP} χερσὶνG5495{N-DPF} γὰρG1063{PRT} ἦνG1510{V-IAI-3S} αὐτῶνG846{D-GPM} τὰG3588{T-NPN} ἀγαθάG18{A-NPN}, ἔργαG2041{N-NPN} δὲG1161{PRT} ἀσεβῶνG765{A-GPM} οὐκG3364{ADV} ἐφορᾷG1896{V-PAI-3S}. 17οὐG3364{ADV} μὴνG3303{PRT} δὲG1161{PRT} ἀλλὰG235{CONJ} καὶG2532{CONJ} ἀσεβῶνG765{A-GPM} λύχνοςG3088{N-NSM} σβεσθήσεταιG4570{V-FPI-3S}, ἐπελεύσεταιG1904{V-FMI-3S} δὲG1161{PRT} αὐτοῖςG846{D-DPM} ἡG3588{T-NSF} καταστροφήG2692{N-NSF}, ὠδῖνεςG5604{N-NPF} δὲG1161{PRT} αὐτοὺςG846{D-APM} ἕξουσινG2192{V-FAI-3P} ἀπὸG575{PREP} ὀργῆςG3709{N-GSF}. 18ἔσονταιG1510{V-FMI-3P} δὲG1161{PRT} ὥσπερG3746{ADV} ἄχυραG892{N-APN} πρὸG4253{PREP} ἀνέμουG417{N-GSM} ἢG2228{CONJ} ὥσπερG3746{ADV} κονιορτόςG2868{N-NSM}, ὃνG3739{R-ASM} ὑφείλατο{V-ANI-3S} λαῖλαψG2978{N-NSF}. 19ἐκλίποιG1587{V-AAO-3S} υἱοὺςG5207{N-APM} τὰG3588{T-NPN} ὑπάρχονταG5225{V-PAPNP} αὐτοῦG846{D-GSM}· ἀνταποδώσειG467{V-FAI-3S} πρὸςG4314{PREP} αὐτὸνG846{D-ASM} καὶG2532{CONJ} γνώσεταιG1097{V-FMI-3S}. 20ἴδοισανG3708{V-AAO-3P} οἱG3588{T-NPM} ὀφθαλμοὶG3788{N-NPM} αὐτοῦG846{D-GSM} τὴνG3588{T-ASF} ἑαυτοῦG1438{D-GSM} σφαγήνG4967{N-ASF}, ἀπὸG575{PREP} δὲG1161{PRT} κυρίουG2962{N-GSM} μὴG3165{ADV} διασωθείηG1295{V-APO-3S}· 21ὅτιG3754{CONJ} τίG5100{I-NSN} θέλημαG2307{N-NSN} αὐτοῦG846{D-GSM} ἐνG1722{PREP} οἴκῳG3624{N-DSM} αὐτοῦG846{D-GSM} μετ᾽G3326{PREP} αὐτόνG846{D-ASM}; καὶG2532{CONJ} ἀριθμοὶG706{N-NPM} μηνῶνG3303{N-GPM} αὐτοῦG846{D-GSM} διῃρέθησανG1244{V-API-3P}. 22πότερονG4220{ADV} οὐχὶG3364{ADV} ὁG3588{T-NSM} κύριόςG2962{N-NSM} ἐστινG1510{V-PAI-3S} ὁG3588{T-NSM} διδάσκωνG1321{V-PAPNS} σύνεσινG4907{N-ASF} καὶG2532{CONJ} ἐπιστήμηνG1989{N-ASF}; αὐτὸςG846{D-NSM} δὲG1161{PRT} φόνουςG5408{N-APM} διακρινεῖG1252{V-FAI-3S}. 23οὗτοςG3778{D-NSM} ἀποθανεῖταιG599{V-FMI-3S} ἐνG1722{PREP} κράτειG2904{N-DSN} ἁπλοσύνης{N-GSF} αὐτοῦG846{D-GSM}, ὅλοςG3650{A-NSM} δὲG1161{PRT} εὐπαθῶν{V-PAPNS} καὶG2532{CONJ} εὐθηνῶν{V-PAPNS}· 24τὰG3588{T-NPN} δὲG1161{PRT} ἔγκατα{N-NPN} αὐτοῦG846{D-GSM} πλήρηG4134{A-NPN} στέατος{N-GSN}, μυελὸςG3452{N-NSM} δὲG1161{PRT} αὐτοῦG846{D-GSM} διαχεῖται{V-PMI-3S}. 25ὁG3588{T-NSM} δὲG1161{PRT} τελευτᾷG5053{V-PAI-3S} ὑπὸG5259{PREP} πικρίαςG4088{N-GSF} ψυχῆςG5590{N-GSF} οὐG3364{ADV} φαγὼνG2068{V-AAPNS} οὐδὲνG3762{A-ASN} ἀγαθόνG18{A-ASN}. 26ὁμοθυμαδὸνG3661{ADV} δὲG1161{PRT} ἐπὶG1909{PREP} γῆςG1065{N-GSF} κοιμῶνταιG2837{V-PMI-3P}, σαπρία{N-NSF} δὲG1161{PRT} αὐτοὺςG846{D-APM} ἐκάλυψενG2572{V-AAI-3S}. 27ὥστεG5620{CONJ} οἶδαG1492{V-RAI-1S} ὑμᾶςG4771{P-AP} ὅτιG3754{CONJ} τόλμῃ{N-DSF} ἐπίκεισθέG1945{V-PMI-2P} μοιG1473{P-DS}· 28ὅτιG3754{CONJ} ἐρεῖτεG2046{V-FAI-2P} ΠοῦG4225{ADV} ἐστινG1510{V-PAI-3S} οἶκοςG3624{N-NSM} ἄρχοντοςG758{N-GSM}; καὶG2532{CONJ} ποῦG4225{ADV} ἐστινG1510{V-PAI-3S} ἡG3588{T-NSF} σκέπη{N-NSF} τῶνG3588{T-GPN} σκηνωμάτωνG4638{N-GPN} τῶνG3588{T-GPM} ἀσεβῶνG765{A-GPM}; 29ἐρωτήσατεG2065{V-AAD-2P} παραπορευομένουςG3899{V-PMPAP} ὁδόνG3598{N-ASF}, καὶG2532{CONJ} τὰG3588{T-APN} σημεῖαG4592{N-APN} αὐτῶνG846{D-GPM} οὐκG3364{ADV} ἀπαλλοτριώσετεG526{V-FAI-3S}· 30ὅτιG3754{CONJ} εἰςG1519{PREP} ἡμέρανG2250{N-ASF} ἀπωλείαςG684{N-GSF} κουφίζεταιG2893{V-PPI-3S} ὁG3588{T-NSM} πονηρόςG4190{A-NSM}, εἰςG1519{PREP} ἡμέρανG2250{N-ASF} ὀργῆςG3709{N-GSF} αὐτοῦG846{D-GSM} ἀπαχθήσονταιG520{V-FPI-3P}. 31τίςG5100{I-NSM} ἀπαγγελεῖG518{V-FAI-3S} ἐπὶG1909{PREP} προσώπουG4383{N-GSN} αὐτοῦG846{D-GSM} τὴνG3588{T-ASF} ὁδὸνG3598{N-ASF} αὐτοῦG846{D-GSM}; καὶG2532{CONJ} αὐτὸςG846{D-NSM} ἐποίησενG4160{V-AAI-3S}, τίςG5100{I-NSM} ἀνταποδώσειG467{V-FAI-3S} αὐτῷG846{D-DSM}; 32καὶG2532{CONJ} αὐτὸςG846{D-NSM} εἰςG1519{PREP} τάφουςG5028{N-APM} ἀπηνέχθηG667{V-API-3S} καὶG2532{CONJ} ἐπὶG1909{PREP} σορῷG4673{N-DSF} ἠγρύπνησενG69{V-AAI-3S}. 33ἐγλυκάνθησαν{V-API-3P} αὐτῷG846{D-DSM} χάλικες{N-NPM} χειμάρρουG5493{N-GSM}, καὶG2532{CONJ} ὀπίσωG3694{PREP} αὐτοῦG846{D-GSM} πᾶςG3956{A-NSM} ἄνθρωποςG444{N-NSM} ἀπελεύσεταιG565{V-FMI-3S}, καὶG2532{CONJ} ἔμπροσθενG1715{PREP} αὐτοῦG846{D-GSM} ἀναρίθμητοιG382{A-NPM}. 34πῶςG4459{ADV} δὲG1161{PRT} παρακαλεῖτέG3870{V-PAI-2P} μεG1473{P-AS} κενάG2756{A-APN}; τὸG3588{T-ASN} δὲG1161{PRT} ἐμὲG1473{P-AS} καταπαύσασθαιG2664{V-AMP} ἀφ᾽G575{PREP} ὑμῶνG4771{P-GP} οὐδένG3762{A-ASN}.
Jamieson Fausset Brown Bible Commentary 2 JOB'S ANSWER. (Job 21:1-34)
consolations--If you will listen calmly to me, this will be regarded as "consolations"; alluding to Eliphaz' boasted "consolations" (
Job 15:11), which Job felt more as aggravations ("mockings,"
Job 21:3) than consolations (
Job 16:2).
3 literally, "Begin your mockings" (
Job 17:2).
4 Job's difficulty was not as to man, but as to God, why He so afflicted him, as if he were the guilty hypocrite which the friends alleged him to be. Vulgate translates it, "my disputation."
if it were--rather, "since this is the case."
5 lay . . . hand upon . . . mouth-- (
Pro 30:32;
Judg 18:19). So the heathen god of silence was pictured with his hand on his mouth. There was enough in Job's case to awe them into silence (
Job 17:8).
6 remember--Think on it. Can you wonder that I broke out into complaints, when the struggle was not with men, but with the Almighty? Reconcile, if you can, the ceaseless woes of the innocent with the divine justice! Is it not enough to make one tremble? [UMBREIT].
7 The answer is
Rom 2:4;
1Tim 1:16;
Ps 73:18;
Eccl 8:11-
Eccl 8:13;
Luke 2:35-
Luke 2:52;
Pro 16:4;
Rom 9:22.
old--in opposition to the friends who asserted that sinners are "cut off" early (
Job 8:12,
Job 8:14).
8 In opposition to
Job 18:19;
Job 5:4.
9 Literally, "peace from fear"; with poetic force. Their house is peace itself, far removed from fear. Opposed to the friends' assertion, as to the bad (
Job 15:21-
Job 15:24;
Job 20:26-
Job 20:28), and conversely, the good (
Job 5:23-
Job 5:24).
10 Rather, "their cattle conceive." The first clause of the verse describes an easy conception, the second, a happy birth [UMBREIT].
11 send forth--namely, out of doors, to their happy sports under the skies, like a joyful flock sent to the pastures.
little ones--like lambkins.
children--somewhat older than the former.
dance--not formal dances; but skip, like lambs, in joyous and healthful play.
12 take--rather, "lift up the voice" (sing) to the note of [UMBREIT].
timbrel--rather, "tambourine."
organ--not the modern "organ," but the "pipe" (
Gen 4:21). The first clause refers to stringed, the latter, to wind instruments; thus, with "the voice" all kinds of music are enumerated.
13 wealth--Old English Version for "prosperity."
in a moment--not by a lingering disease. Great blessings! Lengthened life with prosperity, and a sudden painless death (
Ps 73:4).
14 Therefore--rather, "And yet they are such as say," &c., that is, say, not in so many words, but virtually, by their conduct (so the Gergesenes,
Matt 8:34). How differently the godly (
Isa 2:3).
ways--The course of action, which God points out; as in
Ps 50:23, Margin.
15 (Compare
Jer 2:20;
Pro 30:9, Margin,
Exod 5:2).
what profit-- (
Job 35:3;
Mal 3:14;
Ps 73:13). Sinners ask, not what is right, but what is for the profit of self. They forget, "If religion cost self something, the want of it will cost self infinitely more."
16 not in their hand--but in the hand of God. This is Job's difficulty, that God who has sinners prosperity (good) in His hand should allow them to have it.
is--rather, "may the counsel of the wicked be far from me!" [UMBREIT]. This naturally follows the sentiment of the first clause: Let me not hereby be thought to regard with aught but horror the ways of the wicked, however prosperous.
17 Job in this whole passage down to
Job 21:21 quotes the assertion of the friends, as to the short continuance of the sinner's prosperity, not his own sentiments. In
Job 21:22 he proceeds to refute them. "How oft is the candle" (lamp), &c., quoting Bildad's sentiment (
Job 18:5-
Job 18:6), in order to question its truth (compare
Matt 25:8).
how oft--"God distributeth," &c. (alluding to
Job 20:23,
Job 20:29).
sorrows--UMBREIT translates "snares," literally, "cords," which lightning in its twining motion resembles (
Ps 11:6).
18 Job alludes to a like sentiment of Bildad (
Job 18:18), using his own previous words (
Job 13:25).
19 Equally questionable is the friends' assertion that if the godless himself is not punished, the children are (
Job 18:19;
Job 20:10); and that God rewardeth him here for his iniquity, and that he shall know it to his cost. So "know" (
Hos 9:7).
20 Another questionable assertion of the friends, that the sinner sees his own and his children's destruction in his lifetime.
drink-- (
Ps 11:6;
Isa 51:17;
Lam 4:21).
21 The argument of the friends, in proof of
Job 21:20, What pleasure can he have from his house (children) when he is dead--("after him,"
Eccl 3:22).
when the number, &c.--Or, rather, "What hath he to do with his children?" &c. (so the Hebrew in
Eccl 3:1;
Eccl 8:6). It is therefore necessary that "his eyes should see his and their destruction" (see
Job 14:21).
cut off--rather, when the number of his allotted months is fulfilled (
Job 14:5). From an Arabic word, "arrow," which was used to draw lots with. Hence "arrow"--inevitable destiny [UMBREIT].
22 Reply of Job, "In all these assertions you try to teach God how He ought to deal with men, rather than prove that He does in fact so deal with them. Experience is against you. God gives prosperity and adversity as it pleases Him, not as man's wisdom would have it, on principles inscrutable to us" (
Isa 40:13;
Rom 11:34).
those . . . high--the high ones, not only angels, but men (
Isa 2:12-
Isa 2:17).
23 Literally, "in the bone of his perfection," that is, the full strength of unimpaired prosperity [UMBREIT].
24 breasts--rather, "skins," or "vessels" for fluids [LEE]. But [UMBREIT] "stations or resting-places of his herds near water"; in opposition to Zophar (
Job 20:17); the first clause refers to his abundant substance, the second to his vigorous health.
moistened--comparing man's body to a well-watered field (
Pro 3:8;
Isa 58:11).
26 (
Eccl 9:2).
27 Their wrongful thoughts against Job are stated by him in
Job 21:28. They do not honestly name Job, but insinuate his guilt.
28 ye say--referring to Zophar (
Job 20:7).
the house--referring to the fall of the house of Job's oldest son (
Job 1:19) and the destruction of his family.
prince--The parallel "wicked" in the second clause requires this to be taken in a bad sense, tyrant, oppressor (
Isa 13:2), the same Hebrew, "nobles"--oppressors.
dwelling-places--rather, "pavilions," a tent containing many dwellings, such as a great emir, like Job, with many dependents, would have.
29 Job, seeing that the friends will not admit him as an impartial judge, as they consider his calamities prove his guilt, begs them to ask the opinion of travellers (
Lam 1:12), who have the experience drawn from observation, and who are no way connected with him. Job opposes this to Bildad (
Job 8:8) and Zophar (
Job 20:4).
tokens--rather, "intimations" (for example, inscriptions, proverbs, signifying the results of their observation), testimony. Literally, "signs" or proofs in confirmation of the word spoken (
Isa 7:11).
30 Their testimony (referring perhaps to those who had visited the region where Abraham who enjoyed a revelation then lived) is that "the wicked is (now) spared (reserved) against the day of destruction (hereafter)." The Hebrew does not so well agree with [UMBREIT] "in the day of destruction." Job does not deny sinners' future punishment, but their punishment in this life. They have their "good things" now. Hereafter, their lot, and that of the godly, shall be reversed (
Luke 16:25). Job, by the Spirit, often utters truths which solve the difficulty under which he labored. His afflictions mostly clouded his faith, else he would have seen the solution furnished by his own words. This answers the objection, that if he knew of the resurrection in
Job 19:25, and future retribution (
Job 21:30), why did he not draw his reasonings elsewhere from them, which he did not? God's righteous government, however, needs to be vindicated as to this life also, and therefore the Holy Ghost has caused the argument mainly to turn on it at the same time giving glimpses of a future fuller vindication of God's ways.
brought forth--not "carried away safe" or "escape" (referring to this life), as UMBREIT has it.
wrath--literally, "wraths," that is, multiplied and fierce wrath.
31 That is, who dares to charge him openly with his bad ways? namely, in this present life. He shall, I grant (
Job 21:30), be "repaid" hereafter.
32 Yet--rather, "and."
brought--with solemn pomp (
Ps 45:15).
grave--literally, "graves"; that is, the place where the graves are.
remain in--rather, watch on the tomb, or sepulchral mound. Even after death he seems still to live and watch (that is, have his "remembrance" preserved) by means of the monument over the grave. In opposition to Bildad (
Job 18:17).
33 As the classic saying has it, "The earth is light upon him." His repose shall be "sweet."
draw--follow. He shall share the common lot of mortals; no worse off than they (
Heb 9:27). UMBREIT not so well (for it is not true of "every man"). "Most men follow in his bad steps, as countless such preceded him."
34 falsehood--literally, "transgression." Your boasted "consolations" (
Job 15:11) are contradicted by facts ("vain"); they therefore only betray your evil intent ("wickedness") against me.
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