Job 21:9

9 Their houses are prosperous, neither any where fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Job 21:9 In-Context

7 Wherefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?

8 Their seed is according to desire, and their children are in sight.

9 Their houses are prosperous, neither any where fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.

10 Their cow does not cast her calf, and their with young is safe, and does not miscarry.

11 And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before , taking up the psaltery and harp;