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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
Job Chapter 21 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Job Chapter 21 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
2. 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).
Job Chapter 21 3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
3. literally, "Begin your mockings"
(Job 17:2).
Job Chapter 21 4 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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."
Job Chapter 21 5 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
5. lay . . . hand upon . . . mouth--
(Pr 30:32; Jud 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).
Job Chapter 21 6 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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].
Job Chapter 21 7 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
7. The answer is
Ro 2:4; 1Ti 1:16; Ps 73:18; Ec 8:11-13; Lu 2:35-end; Pr 16:4; Ro 9:22.
old--in opposition to the friends who asserted that sinners are "cut off" early
(Job 8:12, 14).
Job Chapter 21 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
8. In opposition to
Job 18:19; 5:4.
SECOND SERIES.
Job 21:1-34.
JOB'S ANSWER.