Job 21:9

9 Dans leurs maisons règne la paix, sans mélange de crainte; La verge de Dieu ne vient pas les frapper.

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? Pourquoi les voit-on vieillir et accroître leur force?

8 Leur postérité s'affermit avec eux et en leur présence, Leurs rejetons prospèrent sous leurs yeux.

9 Dans leurs maisons règne la paix, sans mélange de crainte; La verge de Dieu ne vient pas les frapper.

10 Leurs taureaux sont vigoureux et féconds, Leurs génisses conçoivent et n'avortent point.

11 Ils laissent courir leurs enfants comme des brebis, Et les enfants prennent leurs ébats.