For what pleasure has he ... - That is, what happiness will he have in his family? This, it seems to me, is designed to be a reference to t…

For what pleasure [has] he in his house after him
As, on the one hand, the prosperity of his children after his decease gives …

Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in t…

In the previous chapter, Zophar had already conceded, at least in part, to Job's opinion. He had affirmed that sins were punished after death, alth…