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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 21:17 - 21:17
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Job in this whole passage down to Job 21:21 quotes the assertion of the friends, as to the short continuance of the sinner’s prosperity, not his own sentiments. In Job 21:22 he proceeds to refute them. “How oft is the candle” (lamp), etc., quoting Bildad’s sentiment (Job 18:5, Job 18:6), in order to question its truth (compare Mat 25:8).
how oft - “God distributeth,” etc. (alluding to Job 20:23, Job 20:29).
sorrows - Umbreit translates “snares,” literally, “cords,” which lightning in its twining motion resembles (Psa 11:6).