Job 20

Job 20:1

answered = spake again. See note on Job 4:1.

Zophar. See note on Job 2:11.

Job 20:3

check = correction.

of = for: i.e. meant to confound me, referring to chApp-19.

spirit of = spirit from. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.

Job 20:4

Knowest thou not this? This was Zophar’s reply to Job in Job 19:25, implying that Job had no such hope.

of old = from of old.

man. Hebrew. ’adam. App-14.

Job 20:5

wicked = lawless. Hebrew. rasha’. App-44.

dung. See note on Isaiah 25:10.

Job 20:10

children = sons.

seek to please = pay court to.

poor = impoverished. Hebrew. dul. See note on Proverbs 6:11.

Job 20:12

wickedness. Hebrew. ra’a’. App-44.

Job 20:13

mouth = palate.

Job 20:14

meat = bread; “bread” put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species) App-6, for all kinds of food.

Job 20:15

GOD. Hebrew El. App-4.

Job 20:17

rivers = divisions of water for irrigation, as in a garden. Hebrew. palgey mayim. See notes on Proverbs 21:1, and Psalms 1:3.

floods = rivers. Hebrew. nahar, ever flowing.

brooks = wadys. Hebrew. nahal, summer streams.

Job 20:20

feel = know, or experience.

Job 20:22

every hand of the wicked = all power of trouble.

hand. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), for the power exercised by it.

Job 20:26

not blown. Not blown up, or produced by man.

tabernacle = tent.

Job 20:28

flow away = melt away, disappear.

Job 20:29

man. Hebrew. ’adam. App-14.

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.