Job 21:9

9 Leurs maisons sont en paix, à l'abri de la crainte, et la verge de Dieu n'est pas sur eux.

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 Pourquoi les méchants vivent-ils, vieillissent-ils, et croissent-ils en force?

8 Leur postérité s'établit devant eux, avec eux, et leurs rejetons sont sous leurs yeux.

9 Leurs maisons sont en paix, à l'abri de la crainte, et la verge de Dieu n'est pas sur eux.

10 Leur taureau n'est jamais impuissant, leur génisse vêle et n'avorte pas.

11 Ils font courir devant eux leurs enfants comme un troupeau, et leur progéniture bondit.