Jó 36:12

12 Mas, se não obedecerem,perecerão à espada^[a]e morrerão na ignorância.

Jó 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.

Jó 36:12 In-Context

10 Ele os fará ouvir a correçãoe lhes ordenará que se arrependam do mal que praticaram.

11 Se lhe obedecerem e o servirem,serão prósperos até o fim dos seus diase terão contentamento nos anos que lhes restam.

12 Mas, se não obedecerem,perecerão à espadae morrerão na ignorância.

13 “Os que têm coração ímpio guardam ressentimento;mesmo quando ele os agrilhoa eles não clamam por socorro.

14 Morrem em plena juventudeentre os prostitutos dos santuários.

Footnotes

• [a] Ou "atravessarão o Rio"