Hiob 36:12

12 Wenn sie aber nicht hören, so rennen sie ins Geschoß und verscheiden ohne Erkenntnis.

Hiob 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.

Hiob 36:12 In-Context

10 und er öffnet ihr Ohr der Zucht und spricht, daß sie umkehren sollen vom Frevel.

11 Wenn sie hören und sich unterwerfen, so werden sie ihre Tage in Wohlfahrt verbringen und ihre Jahre in Annehmlichkeiten.

12 Wenn sie aber nicht hören, so rennen sie ins Geschoß und verscheiden ohne Erkenntnis.

13 Aber die ruchlosen Herzens sind, hegen Zorn: sie rufen nicht um Hilfe, wenn er sie gefesselt hat.

14 Ihre Seele stirbt dahin in der Jugend, und ihr Leben unter den Schandbuben.