Job 21:16
“Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out?.... Job here returns, as Jarchi observes, to his former account of the…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Lo, their good is not in their hand - Schultens, Rosenmuller, and Noyes, suppose, I think, correctly, that this is to be…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Job 21:7-16
All Job's three friends, in their last discourses, had been very copious in describing the miserable condition of a…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
Finally Job adverts to the mystery: this prosperity of theirs does not depend upon themselves, it is not of their own…
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