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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Job 21

Chapter 21

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

Hear

13:3,4 18:2 33:1,31-33 34:2 Judges 9:7 Isaiah 55:2 Hebrews 2:1

let this be

15:11 16:2

Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

that I may

13:13 33:31-33

mock on

12:4,5 13:9 16:10,20 17:2

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

is my complaint

7:11-21 10:1,2 1 Samuel 1:16 Psalms 22:1-3 77:3-9 102:1 *title; Psalms 142:2,3 Matthew 26:38

if it were

2 Kings 6:26,27 Psalms 42:11

troubled

Heb. shortened.

Exodus 6:9 *marg:

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Mark me

Heb. Look unto me. be astonished.

2:12 17:8 19:20,21

lay your

29:9 40:4 Judges 18:19 Psalms 39:9 Proverbs 30:32 Amos 5:13 Micah 7:16 Romans 11:33

Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

Even when

Psalms 77:3 88:15 119:120 Lamentations 3:19,20 Habakkuk 3:16

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Wherefore

12:6 Psalms 17:10 73:3-12 Jeremiah 12:1-3 Habakkuk 1:15,16

mighty

Psalms 37:35 Daniel 4:17 Revelation 13:2-7 17:2-4

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

5:3,4 18:19 20:10,28 Proverbs 17:6

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

safe from fear

Heb. peace from fear.

15:21 18:11 Psalms 73:19 Isaiah 57:19-21

the rod

9:34 Psalms 73:5

Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

their cow

Exodus 23:26 Deuteronomy 7:13,14 28:11 Psalms 144:13,14 Ecclesiastes 9:1,2 Luke 12:16-21 Luke 16:19

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

Psalms 107:41 127:3-5

They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

Genesis 4:21 31:27 Isaiah 5:12 22:13 Amos 6:4-6

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

They

36:11 Psalms 73:4 Matthew 24:38,39 Luke 12:19,20 17:28,29

wealth

or, mirth.

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

they say

22:17 Psalms 10:4,11 Luke 8:28,37 Habakkuk 1:15 John 15:23,24 Romans 8:7

for we

Proverbs 1:7,22,29 John 3:19,20 8:45-47 Romans 1:28 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 2 Timothy 4:3,4

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

What is

Exodus 5:2 Psalms 12:4 Proverbs 30:9 Hosea 13:6

and what

34:9 35:3 Isaiah 30:11 Malachi 1:13,14

if we

Isaiah 45:19 Matthew 7:7 John 16:24

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Lo

1:21 12:9,10 Psalms 49:6,7 52:5-7 Ecclesiastes 8:8 Luke 16:2,25

the counsel

22:18 Genesis 49:6 Psalms 1:1 Proverbs 1:10 5:8

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

oft

18:5,6,18 Proverbs 13:9 20:20 24:20 Matthew 25:8

candle

or, lamp. distributeth.

Psalms 32:10 90:7-9 Luke 12:46 Romans 2:8,9

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

as stubble

13:25 Exodus 15:7 Psalms 1:4 35:5 83:13 Isaiah 5:24 17:13 29:5 40:24 Isaiah 41:15,16 Jeremiah 13:24 Hosea 13:3 Nahum 1:10 Matthew 3:12

carrieth

Heb. stealeth.

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

layeth

22:24 Deuteronomy 32:34 Matthew 6:19,20 Romans 2:5

iniquity

that is, the punishment of his iniquity.

Genesis 4:7 Isaiah 53:4-6 2 Corinthians 5:21

for his

Exodus 20:5 Psalms 109:9-31 Isaiah 14:21 Ezekiel 18:14,19,20 Matthew 23:31-35

he rewardeth

Deuteronomy 32:41 2 Samuel 3:39 Psalms 54:5 Matthew 16:27 2 Timothy 4:14 Revelation 18:6

he shall

Malachi 3:18

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

see

27:19 Luke 16:23

drink

Psalms 75:8 Isaiah 51:17 Jeremiah 25:15,16 51:7 Revelation 14:10 19:15

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

For what

14:21 Ecclesiastes 2:18,19 Luke 16:27,28

the number

14:5 Psalms 55:23 102:24

Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

teach

40:2 Isaiah 40:13,14 45:9 Romans 11:34 1 Corinthians 2:16

he judgeth

34:17-19 Psalms 113:5,6 Ecclesiastes 5:8 Isaiah 40:22,23 1 Corinthians 6:3 2 Peter 2:4 Jude 1:6 Revelation 20:1-3,12-15

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

in his full strength

Heb. in his very perfection. or, the strength of his perfection.

20:22,23 Psalms 49:17 73:4,5 Luke 12:19-21

His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

His breasts

or, His milk pails.

15:27 Psalms 17:10

moistened

Proverbs 3:8

And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

in the bitterness

3:20 7:11 9:18 10:1 2 Samuel 17:8 *marg:; Proverbs 14:10 Isaiah 38:15-17

never

20:23 1 Kings 17:12 Ecclesiastes 6:2 Ezekiel 4:16,17 12:18

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

alike

3:18,19 20:11 Ecclesiastes 9:2

the worms

17:14 19:26 Psalms 49:14 Isaiah 14:11

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

I know

4:8-11 5:3-5 8:3-6 15:20-35 20:5,29 Luke 5:22

ye wrongfully

32:3 42:7 Psalms 59:4 119:86 1 Peter 2:19

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

Where

20:7 Psalms 37:36 52:5,6 Habakkuk 2:9-11 Zechariah 5:4

dwelling places

Heb. tent of the tabernacles.

Numbers 16:26-34

Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

go by

Psalms 129:8

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

the wicked

Proverbs 16:4 Nahum 1:2 2 Peter 2:9-17 3:7 Jude 1:13

day

20:28 Psalms 110:5 Proverbs 11:4 Zephaniah 1:15 Romans 2:5 Revelation 6:17

wrath

Heb. wraths.

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

declare

2 Samuel 12:7-12 1 Kings 21:19-24 Psalms 50:21 Jeremiah 2:33-35 Mark 6:18 Acts 24:25 Galatians 2:11

repay

19 41:11 Deuteronomy 7:10 Isaiah 59:13 Romans 12:19 James 2:13

Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

he be

Psalms 49:14 Ezekiel 32:21-32 Luke 16:22

grave

Heb. graves. remain in the tomb. Heb. watch in the heap.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

sweet

3:17,18

every man

30:23 Genesis 3:19 Ecclesiastes 1:4 8:8 12:7 Hebrews 9:27

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

comfort

16:2

seeing

13:4 32:3 42:7

falsehood

Heb. transgression.