Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Job 21:17
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Job21:17
17. Job in this whole passage down to Job 21:21 quotes the assertion of the friends, as to the short continuance of the sinner's prosperity, not his own sentiments. In Job 21:22 he proceeds to refute them. "How oft is the candle" (lamp), &c., quoting Bildad's sentiment (Job 18:5, 6), in order to question its truth (compare Mt 25:8).
how oft--"God distributeth," &c. (alluding to Job 20:23, 29).
sorrows--Umbreit translates "snares," literally, "cords," which lightning in its twining motion resembles (Psa 11:6).
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