Job 21:9

9 Hun huizen hebben vrede zonder vreze, en de roede Gods is op hen niet.

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 Waarom leven de goddelozen, worden oud, ja, worden geweldig in vermogen?

8 Hun zaad is bestendig met hen voor hun aangezicht, en hun spruiten zijn voor hun ogen.

9 Hun huizen hebben vrede zonder vreze, en de roede Gods is op hen niet.

10 Zijn stier bespringt, en mist niet; zijn koe kalft, en misdraagt niet.

11 Hun jonge kinderen zenden zij uit als een kudde, en hun kinderen huppelen.