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An Appeal to Experience
Job challenges his friends to stop theorizing and look at the real world. He tells them to ask 'wayfaring men'—travelers who have seen more of life. Commentators agree that Job is appealing to universal, observable evidence. He is confident that anyone with broad experience would confirm his observation: the wicked often prosper in this life, contrary to the friends' rigid theology.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 21:29
18th Century
Theologian
Have you not asked them that go by the way? – Travelers, who have passed into other countries, and who have had an opportunity of m…
Charles Ellicott
On Job 21:29
19th Century
Bishop
Their tokens — i.e., the marks and evidences of their experience, and the conclusions at which they had arrived.
John Gill
On Job 21:29
17th Century
Pastor
Have you not asked them that go by the way ?
&c.] Did you not ask every traveller you met with on the road the above…
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Matthew Henry
On Job 21:27–34
17th Century
Minister
Job opposes the opinion of his friends that the wicked are sure to fall into visible and remarkable ruin, and none but the wicked; upon which princ…