Job 21:9

9 Their houses [are] safe without fear, and the rod of God [is] not upon them.

Job 21:9 Meaning and Commentary

Job 21:9

Their houses [are] safe from fear
Of enemies besetting them, entering into them, and pillaging and plundering them; of thieves and robbers breaking into them, and carrying off their substance: or "their houses [are] peace" F15; their families live in peace among themselves, or enjoy all prosperity, which the word peace frequently signifies; they have peace and prosperity within doors and are free "from fear", or devoid of fear, from anything without;

neither [is] the rod of God upon them;
neither his rod of chastisement, which is upon his own people, and with which he scourges every son, though in love for their good, and which was now upon Job, ( Job 9:34 ) ; nor any sore judgment, as famine, plague, sword, or any other; no, not even the common afflictions and troubles that men are exercised with.


FOOTNOTES:

F15 (Mwlv) "pax", Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Schultens.

Job 21:9 In-Context

7 "Why do [the] wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty [in] power?
8 With them their offspring [are] established {before them}, and their descendants before their eyes.
9 Their houses [are] safe without fear, and the rod of God [is] not upon them.
10 His bull breeds and does not fail; his cow calves and does not miscarry.
11 They send out their little ones like the flock, and their children dance around.
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