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Selected Verse: Job 21:29 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Job 21:29 |
Strong Concordance |
Have ye not asked [07592] them that go [05674] by the way [01870]? and do ye not know [05234] their tokens [0226], |
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King James |
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Job, seeing that the friends will not admit him as an impartial judge, as they consider his calamities prove his guilt, begs them to ask the opinion of travellers (Lam 1:12), who have the experience drawn from observation, and who are no way connected with him. Job opposes this to Bildad (Job 8:8) and Zophar (Job 20:4).
tokens--rather, "intimations" (for example, inscriptions, proverbs, signifying the results of their observation), testimony. Literally, "signs" or proofs in confirmation of the word spoken (Isa 7:11). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? - Travelers, who have passed into other countries, and who have had an opportunity of making observations, and of learning the opinions of those residing there. The idea of Job is, that they might have learned from such travelers that such people were "reserved" for future destruction, and that calamity did not immediately overtake them. Information was obtained in ancient times by careful observation, and by traveling, and they who had gone into other countries would be highly regarded concerning point like this. They could speak of what they had observed of the actual dealings of God there, and of the sentiments of sages there. The idea is, that "they" would confirm the truth of what Job had said, that the wicked were often prosperous and happy.
And do ye not know their tokens - The signs, or intimations which they have given of the actual state of things in other countries, perhaps by the inscriptions, records, and proverbs, by which they had "signified" the result of their inquiries. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Them - Any person that passes along the high - way, every one you meet with. It is so vulgar a thing, that no man of common sense is ignorant of it. Tokens - The examples, or evidences, of this truth, which they that go by the way can produce. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? - This appears to be Job's answer. Consult travelers who have gone through different countries; and they will tell you that they have seen both examples - the wicked in great prosperity in some instances, while suddenly destroyed in others. See at the end of the chapter, Job 21:34 (note).
Do ye not know their tokens - Mr. Good translates the whole verse thus: "Surely thou canst never have inquired of men of travel; or thou couldst not have been ignorant of their tokens. Hadst thou made proper inquiries, thou wouldst have heard of their awful end in a thousand instances. And also of their prosperity." See at the end of this chapter, Job 21:34 (note). |
11 Ask [07592] thee a sign [0226] of the LORD [03068] thy God [0430]; ask [07592] it either in the depth [06009], or in the height [01361] above [04605].
4 Knowest [03045] thou not this of old [05703], since man [0120] was placed [07760] upon earth [0776],
8 For enquire [07592], I pray thee, of the former [07223] [07223] age [01755], and prepare [03559] thyself to the search [02714] of their fathers [01]:
12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass [05674] by [01870]? behold [05027], and see [07200] if there be [03426] any sorrow [04341] like unto my sorrow [04341], which is done [05953] unto me, wherewith the LORD [03068] hath afflicted [03013] me in the day [03117] of his fierce [02740] anger [0639].
34 How then comfort [05162] ye me in vain [01892], seeing in your answers [08666] there remaineth [07604] falsehood [04604]?
34 How then comfort [05162] ye me in vain [01892], seeing in your answers [08666] there remaineth [07604] falsehood [04604]?