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Job's Words Used Against Him
Scholars Albert Barnes and John Gill highlight a crucial piece of irony: Zophar is using language almost identical to what Job himself used in chapter 7. Job lamented his own impending disappearance, and now Zophar cruelly turns those same words into a description of the wicked's fate, implicitly categorizing Job among them.
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Job
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Albert Barnes
On Job 20:9
18th Century
Theologian
The eye also which saw him - This is almost exactly the language which Job uses respecting himself. See (Job 7:8), note; ([Ref…
John Gill
On Job 20:9
17th Century
Pastor
The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more
In this world, concerned in the affairs of life, and busy in wo…
Matthew Henry
On Job 20:1–9
17th Century
Minister
Zophar's discourse is about the certain misery of the wicked. The triumph of the wicked and the joy of the hypocrite are fleeting. The pleasures an…