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Job 21:27

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Behold, I know your thoughts, And the plans by which you would wrong me.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Lo! I know your plans, and the devices, wherewith ye would do me violence!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Behold, I know your thoughts, and the deuices [which] yee wrongfully imagine against me.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me:
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Behold, x2005
(2005) Complement
הֵן
hen
{hane}
A primitive particle; lo! also (as expressing surprise) if.
I know 3045
{3045} Prime
ידע
yada`
{yaw-dah'}
A primitive root; to know (properly to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively instruction, designation, punishment, etc.).
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
your thoughts, 4284
{4284} Prime
מַחֲשָׁבָה
machashabah
{makh-ash-aw-baw'}
From H2803; a contrivance, that is, (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice).
and the devices 4209
{4209} Prime
מְזִמָּה
m@zimmah
{mez-im-maw'}
From H2161; a plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity).
[which] ye wrongfully imagine 2554
{2554} Prime
חָמַס
chamac
{khaw-mas'}
A primitive root; to be violent; by implication to maltreat.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
against x5921
(5921) Complement
עַל
`al
{al}
Properly the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural, often with prefix, or as conjugation with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications.
me.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Job 21:27

_ _ Their wrongful thoughts against Job are stated by him in Job 21:28. They do not honestly name Job, but insinuate his guilt.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

Job 21:27-34

_ _ 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 biassed by your piques and prejudices against me, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against my comfort and honour: and how can such men be convinced?” Job's friends were ready to say, in answer to his discourse concerning the prosperity of the wicked, “Where is the house of the prince? Job 21:28. Where is Job's house, or the house of his eldest son, in which his children were feasting? Enquire into the circumstances of Job's house and family, and then ask, Where are the dwelling-places of the wicked? and compare them together, and you will soon see that Job's house is in the same predicament with the houses of tyrants and oppressors, and may therefore conclude that doubtless he was such a one.”

_ _ II. He lays down his own judgment to the contrary, and, for proof of it, appeals to the sentiments and observations of all mankind. So confident is he that he is in the right that he is willing to refer the cause to the next man that comes by (Job 21:29): “Have you not asked those that go by the way — any indifferent person, any that will answer you? I say not, as Eliphaz (Job 5:1), to which of the saints, but to which of the children of men will you turn? Turn to which you will, and you will find them all of my mind, that the punishment of sinners is designed more for the other world than for this, according to the prophecy of Enoch, the seventh from Adam, Jude 1:14. Do you not know the tokens of this truth, which all that have made any observations upon the providences of God concerning mankind in this world can furnish you with?” Now,

_ _ 1. What is it that Job here asserts? Two things: — (1.) That impenitent sinners will certainly be punished in the other world, and, usually, their punishment is put off until then. (2.) That therefore we are not to think it strange if they prosper greatly in this world and fall under no visible token of God's wrath. Therefore they are spared now, because they are to be punished then; therefore the workers of iniquity flourish, that they may be destroyed for ever, Psalms 92:7. The sinner is here supposed, [1.] To live in a great deal of power, so as to be not only the terror of the mighty in the land of the living (Ezekiel 32:27), but the terror of the wise and good too, whom he keeps in such awe that none dares declare his way to his face, Job 21:31. None will take the liberty to reprove him, to tell him of the wickedness of his way, and what will be in the end thereof; so that he sins securely, and is not made to know either shame or fear. The prosperity of fools destroys them, by setting them (in their own conceit) above reproofs, by which they might be brought to that repentance which alone will prevent their ruin. Those are marked for destruction that are let alone in sin, Hosea 4:17. And, if none dares declare his way to his face, much less dare any repay him what he has done and make him refund what he has obtained by injustice. He is one of those great flies which break through the cobwebs of the law, that hold only the little ones. This emboldens sinners in their sinful ways that they can brow-beat justice and make it afraid to meddle with them. But there is a day coming when those shall be told of their faults who now would not bear to hear of them, those shall have their sins set in order before them, and their way declared to their face, to their everlasting confusion, who would not have it done here, to their conviction, and those who would not repay the wrongs they had done shall have them repaid to them. [2.] To die, and be buried in a great deal of pomp and magnificence, Job 21:32, Job 21:33. There is no remedy; he must die; that is the lot of all men; but every thing you can think of shall be done to take off the reproach of death. First, He shall have a splendid funeral — a poor thing for any man to be proud of the prospect of; yet with some it passes for a mighty thing. Well, he shall be brought to the grave in state, surrounded with all the honours of the heralds' office and all the respect his friends can then pay to his remains. The rich man died, and was buried, but no mention is made of the poor man's burial, Luke 16:22. Secondly, He shall have a stately monument erected over him. He shall remain in the tomb with a Hic jacetHere lies, over him, and a large encomium. Perhaps it is meant of the embalming of his body to preserve it, which was a piece of honour anciently done by the Egyptians to their great men. He shall watch in the tomb (so the word is), shall abide solitary and quiet there, as a watchman in his tower. Thirdly, The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; there shall be as much done as can be with rich odours to take off the noisomeness of the grave, as by lamps to set aside the darkness of it, which perhaps was referred to in the foregoing phrase of watching in the tomb. But it is all a jest; what is the light, or what the perfume, to a man that is dead? Fourthly, It shall be alleged, for the lessening of the disgrace of death, that it is the common lot: He has only yielded to fate, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. Note, Death is the way of all the earth: when we are to cross that darksome valley we must consider, 1. That there are innumerable before us; it is a tracked road, which may help to take off the terror of it. To die is ire ad pluresto go to the great majority. 2. That every man shall draw after us. As there is a plain track before, so there is a long train behind; we are neither the first nor the last that pass through that dark entry. Every one must go in his own order, the order appointed of God.

_ _ 2. From all this Job infers the impertinency of their discourses, Job 21:34. (1.) Their foundation is rotten, and they went upon a wrong hypothesis: “In your answers there remains falsehood; what you have said stands not only unproved but disproved, and lies under such an imputation of falsehood as you cannot clear it from.” (2.) Their building was therefore weak and tottering: “You comfort me in vain. All you have said gives me no relief; you tell me that I shall prosper again if I turn to God, but you go upon this presumption, that piety shall certainly be crowned with prosperity, which is false; and therefore how can your inference from it yield me any comfort?” Note, Where there is not truth there is little comfort to be expected.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 21:27

Me — I know that your discourses, though they be of wicked, men in general, yet are particularly levelled at me.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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I know:

Job 4:8-11 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. ... The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Job 5:3-5 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. ... Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Job 8:3-6 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? ... If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Job 15:20-35 The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. ... They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?
Job 20:29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Luke 5:22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?

ye wrongfully:

Job 32:3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and [yet] had condemned Job.
Job 42:7 And it was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is] right, as my servant Job [hath].
Psalms 59:4 They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to help me, and behold.
Psalms 119:86 All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
1 Peter 2:19 For this [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
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Jb 4:8; 5:3; 8:3; 15:20; 20:5, 29; 32:3; 42:7. Ps 59:4; 119:86. Lk 5:22. 1P 2:19.

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