Giobbe 36:12

12 ma, se non l’ascoltano, periscon trafitti da’ suoi dardi, muoiono per mancanza d’intendimento.

Giobbe 36:12 Meaning and Commentary

Job 36:12

But if they obey not
Who seem to be righteous and are not; and when afflicted are not submissive to the will of God; attend not to the voice of his providence; receive no instruction thereby; but kick against the pricks, and rebel, against God; complain of him, and murmur at his dealings with them:

they shall perish by the sword;
or they shall pass away out of the world by it, or by some missive weapon: they shall die a violent death, by the sword of justice, of the civil magistrate, or by the sword of men; or, as a Jewish commentator ^F18 paraphrases it, by the dart of death, by the sword of Satan, they shall pass out of this world;

and they shall die without knowledge;
without knowledge of their death being near, it coming upon them suddenly and at unawares; or without knowledge of themselves and of their miserable and lost estate; and without knowledge of Christ, and of God in Christ, and of the way of salvation by him. Or they shall perish for lack of knowledge; because they have none; through ignorance and that affected; they know not nor will they understand, but despise the means of knowledge, and hate instruction.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 R. Simeon, Bar Tzemach.

Giobbe 36:12 In-Context

10 egli apre così i loro orecchi a’ suoi ammonimenti, e li esorta ad abbandonare il male.

11 Se l’ascoltano, se si sottomettono, finiscono i loro giorni nel benessere, e gli anni loro nella gioia;

12 ma, se non l’ascoltano, periscon trafitti da’ suoi dardi, muoiono per mancanza d’intendimento.

13 Gli empi di cuore s’abbandonano alla collera, non implorano Iddio quand’ei gl’incatena;

14 così muoiono nel fior degli anni, e la lor vita finisce come quella dei dissoluti;