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Commentaries on Job 21:28

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Job 21 This chapter contains Job's reply to Zophar's preceding discourse, in which, after a preface exciting attention to what he was about to say, Job 21:1; he describes by various instances the prosperity of wicked men, even of the most impious and atheistical, and which continues with them as long as they live, contrary to what Zophar had asserted in Job 20:5, Job 21:7; as for...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

For ye say,.... Or "have said", or "[I know] that ye say"; or "[that] ye are about to say" (a); it is in your hearts and minds, and just ready to come out of your lips, and what you will say next: where [is] the house of the prince? of the righteous man, as the Syriac and Arabic versions; or "of the good and liberal man", as others (b); of such as are of a princely and ingenuous spirit, who are...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

This is Job's reply to Zophar's discourse, in which he complains less of his own miseries than he had done in his former discourses (finding that his friends were not moved by his complaints to pity him in the least), and comes closer to the general question that was in dispute between him and them, Whether outward prosperity, and the continuance of it, were a mark of the true church and the true...