Job 21:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

Job 21:12 —

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Cross-References

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Amos 6:4-6
That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; …
Isaiah 5:12
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Genesis 4:21
And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
Isaiah 22:13
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
Genesis 31:27
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-16)

All Job’s three friends, in their last discourses, had been very copious in describing the miserable condition of a wicked man in this world. “It is true,” says Job, “remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon notorious sinners, but not always; for we have many instances of the great and long prosperity of those that are openly and avowedly wicked; though they are hardened in their wickedness…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. take--rather, “lift up the voice” (sing) to the note of [Umbreit]. timbrel--rather, “tambourine.” organ--not the modern “organ,” but the “pipe” (Ge 4:21). The first clause refers to stringed, the latter, to wind instruments; thus, with “the voice” all kinds of music are enumerated.