Job 27:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

Job 27:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 24:15
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
Job 29:1
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Numbers 23:7
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Proverbs 26:7
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-6)

Job’s discourse here is called a parable (mashal), the title of Solomon’s proverbs, because it was grave and weighty, and very instructive, and he spoke as one having authority. It comes from a word that signifies to rule, or have dominion; and some think it intimates that Job now triumphed over his opponents, and spoke as one that had baffled them. We say of an excellent preacher that he knows ho…

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

(vv. 1)

Job 27:1-23. It was now Zophar’s turn to speak. But as he and the other two were silent, virtually admitting defeat, after a pause Job proceeds. 1. parable--applied in the East to a figurative sententious embodiment of wisdom in poetic form, a gnome (Psa 49:4). continued--proceeded to put forth; implying elevation of discourse.