That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
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Gill's Exposition
Who shall declare his way to his face?.... Jarchi and Aben Ezra think that Job here returns to God, and speaks of him, as in Job 21:22; signifying that no man can or ought to presume to charge the…
Barnes' Notes
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? - He is not punished, as you maintain, at once. He is “kept” with a view to future punishment; and though calamity will certainly overtake him at…
In these verses,
I. Job opposes the opinion of his friends, which he saw they still adhered to, that the wicked are sure to fall into such visible and remarkable ruin as Job had now fallen into, and…
Cambridge Bible
they shall be brought forth to Rather, they are led forth in, i. e. led away in safety from the destroying wrath, parallel to "spared" or withholden, in the first clause; cf. Isa 55:12 (led forth), or…
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