Job 21:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

Job 21:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 73:5
They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
Job 9:34
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Job 15:21
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Job 18:11
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
Isaiah 57:19-21
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. …

Topics

Capital and Labor Care Pride Prosperity Rich, the Wicked (people)

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. 9)

9. Literally, “peace from fear”; with poetic force. Their house is peace itself, far removed from fear. Opposed to the friends’ assertion, as to the bad (Job 15:21-24; 20:26-28), and conversely, the good (Job 5:23, 24).