Job 21:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁹Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

Job 21:29 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 129:8
Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.

Topics

Self-Righteousness Wicked (people)

Commentary

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

(vv. 27-34)

In these verses, I. Job opposes the opinion of his friends, which he saw they still adhered to, that the wicked are sure to fall into such visible and remarkable ruin as Job had now fallen into, and none but the wicked, upon which principle they condemned Job as a wicked man. “ I know your thoughts,” says Job (Job 21:27); “I know you will not agree with me; for your judgments are tinctured and bia…

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

(vv. 29)

29. 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 (La 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, signify…