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Text -- Job 21:23-34 (NET)

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21:23 “One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous, 21:24 his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist. 21:25 And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good. 21:26 Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.
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21:27 “Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me. 21:28 For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’ 21:29 Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts21:30 that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath? 21:31 No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done. 21:32 And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound, 21:33 The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng. 21:34 So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Job | Wicked | Death | Self-righteousness | WORM | Pride | Destruction | Lies and Deceits | Judgment | PRINCE | BODY OF HEAVEN | ARGOB (2) | ANSWER | CLOD | CRIME; CRIMES | MILK | MARROW | TOKEN | more
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NET Notes: Job 21:23 The line has “in the bone of his perfection.” The word עֶצֶם (’etsem), which means “bone,”...

NET Notes: Job 21:24 The verb שָׁקָה (shaqah) means “to water” and here “to be watered thoroughly.” The picture...

NET Notes: Job 21:25 Heb “eaten what is good.” It means he died without having enjoyed the good life.

NET Notes: Job 21:27 E. Dhorme (Job, 321) distinguishes the verb חָמַס (khamas) from the noun for “violence.” He proposes a meani...

NET Notes: Job 21:28 Heb “And where is the tent, the dwellings of the wicked.” The word “dwellings of the wicked” is in apposition to “tent.&...

NET Notes: Job 21:29 The idea is that the merchants who travel widely will talk about what they have seen and heard. These travelers give a different account of the wicked...

NET Notes: Job 21:30 The verb means “to be led forth.” To be “led forth in the day of trouble” means to be delivered.

NET Notes: Job 21:31 Heb “Who declares his way to his face? // Who repays him for what he has done?” These rhetorical questions, which expect a negative answer...

NET Notes: Job 21:32 The Hebrew word refers to the tumulus, the burial mound that is erected on the spot where the person is buried.

NET Notes: Job 21:33 The clods are those that are used to make a mound over the body. And, for a burial in the valley, see Deut 34:6. The verse here sees him as participat...

NET Notes: Job 21:34 The word מָעַל (ma’al) is used for “treachery; deception; fraud.” Here Job is saying that their way of...

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