Teks -- Job 21:21 (NET)

21:21 For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

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Wesley: Job 21:21 - For, &c.

_What delight can ye take in the thoughts of his posterity, when he is dying an untimely death? When that number of months, which by the course of nature, he might have lived, is cut off by violence.

JFB: Job 21:21 - The argument of the friends, in proof of Job 21:20, What pleasure can he have from his house (children) when he is dead

("after him," Ecc 3:22).

JFB: Job 21:21 - when the number, &c.

Or, rather, "What hath he to do with his children?" &c. (so the Hebrew in Ecc 3:1; Ecc 8:6). It is therefore necessary that "his eyes should see his and their destruction" (see Job 14:21).

JFB: Job 21:21 - cut off

Rather, when the number of his allotted months is fulfilled (Job 14:5). From an Arabic word, "arrow," which was used to draw lots with. Hence "arrow"--inevitable destiny [UMBREIT].

Clarke: Job 21:21 - For what pleasure hath he in his house after him

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him - What may happen to his posterity he neither knows nor cares for, as he is now numbered with the dead, and numbered with them before he had lived out half his years. Some have translated the verse thus: "Behold how speedily God destroys the house of the wicked after him! How he shortens the number of his months!"

TSK: Job 21:21 - For what // the number

For what : Job 14:21; Ecc 2:18, Ecc 2:19; Luk 16:27, Luk 16:28

the number : Job 14:5; Psa 55:23, Psa 102:24

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Poole: Job 21:21 - What pleasure hath he in his house after him? // his house // When the number of his months is cut off in the midst

What pleasure hath he in his house after him? or, for what desire, or care, or study hath he for or concerning (as beth is oft used)

his house i.e. his children? When he is dead and gone, he cares not what becomes of his children, as irreligion commonly makes men unnatural; he is not concerned nor affected with their felicity or misery. See Job 14:21 . And therefore God doth punish both him and his children whilst he lives, Job 21:19,20 . Or thus, What delight can he take in the thoughts of the glory and happiness of his posterity, when he finds that he is dying a violent and untimely death? So this is a further proof that this man is neither happy in himself, nor with reference to his posterity.

When the number of his months is cut off in the midst when that number of months, which by his constitution and the course of nature he might have lived, is diminished and cut off by the hand of violence.

Haydock: Job 21:21 - And if

And if. Hebrew, "when" he is cut off in the midst of his days: he does not regard the happiness or misery of those whom he leaves behind. (Haydock) ---

The children are rather taken away for his punishment, while he is living, as their misery would not touch him in the grave. (Menochius)

Gill: Job 21:21 - For what pleasure hath he in his house after him // when the number of his months is cut off in the midst

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him,.... As, on the one hand, the prosperity of his children after his decease gives him no pleasure and delight, so, on the other hand, the calamities and distresses of his family for his sins and theirs give him no pain or uneasiness; he knows nothing that befalls them, and it is no part of his concern; and let what will befall them, he cares not for it; he feels it not, he is not sensible of it; and therefore to object that signifies nothing; see Job 14:21; or, "what business has he with his house after death?" the affairs ^d of his family do not at all concern him, one way or another; he is not affected with them; he can neither consider their happiness as a blessing nor their calamities as a punishment to him:

when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? the years, the months, and the days of the lives of men, are numbered and determined by the Lord, Job 14:5; which, when finished, the thread of life is cut off in the midst, from the rest of the months, which a man or his friends might have expected he would have lived; or rather, "when his number of the months is fully up" ^e; when the calculation of them is complete, and the full number of them is perfected; the sense is, what cares a wicked man for what befalls his family after his death, when he has lived out the full term of life in great outward happiness and prosperity; has lived to be full of days, of months, and years, to a full age, even to an age that may be truly called old age?