Job 24:25

Job 24:25 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
• New International Version (NIV)“If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?”
• English Standard Version (ESV)If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?"
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Now if it is not so, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech worth nothing?”

Context of Job 24:25

23God allows them to feel safe. But he is always watching everything that they do. 24Wicked people may have success for a short time, but suddenly they disappear! Like everyone else, they fall to the ground. They become like crops that people cut down at harvest time.” What I have said is true. Nobody can say that I am telling lies. You cannot think that my words are useless.’

Job 24:25 word by word

וְאִם־לֹ֣א אֵ֭פוֹ מִ֣י יַכְזִיבֵ֑נִי וְיָשֵׂ֥ם לְ֝אַ֗ל מִלָּתִֽי׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• nowאֵפוֹ'êphô 'êphô' · thenH645
• who will makeשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: accuseH7760
• me a liarכָּזַבkâzab · to lieH3576
• and makeשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: accuseH7760
• my speechמִלָּהmillâh milleh · speechH4405
• nothing worthאַל'al · notH408

Cross-references for Job 24:25

• Job 9:24A wicked man may have power to rule a nation. Then God stops the judges from being fair. It must be God who does that. Who else could it be?
• Job 11:2‘Someone must answer all these words that you have spoken. You have talked a lot, but that does not mean that you are right.
• Job 15:2‘If you were wise, you would not answer us with such silly ideas. The words that come out from inside you are only a hot wind!

Commentaries on Job 24:25

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 25And if it be not so now - Job has proved by examples that the righteous are often oppressed; that the wicked often triumph over the just, that the impious are always wretched even in the midst of their greatest prosperity; and he defies his friends to show one flaw in his argument, or an error in his illustration of it; and that existing facts are farther proofs of what he has advanced. In the preceding chapters we find Job's friends having continual…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar? - A challenge to anyone to prove the contrary to what he had said. Job had now attacked their main position, and had appealed to facts in defense of what he held. He maintained that, as a matter of fact, the wicked were prospered, that they often lived to old age, and that they then died a peaceful death, without any direct demonstration of the divine displeasure. He boldly appeals, now, to anyone to deny…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-25Verses 18-25 Sometimes how gradual is the decay, how quiet the departure of a wicked person, how is he honoured, and how soon are all his cruelties and oppressions forgotten! They are taken off with other men, as the harvestman gathers the ears of corn as they come to hand. There will often appear much to resemble the wrong view of Providence Job takes in this chapter. But we are taught by the word of inspiration, that these notions are formed in…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-25Job 24:1-25. 1. Why is it that, seeing that the times of punishment (Eze 30:3; "time" in the same sense) are not hidden from the Almighty, they who know Him (His true worshippers, Job 18:21) do not see His days (of vengeance; Joe 1:15; 2Pe 3:10)? Or, with Umbreit less simply, making the parallel clauses more nicely balanced, Why are not times of punishment hoarded up ("laid up"; Job 21:19; appointed) by the Almighty? that is, Why are they not so appointed…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 24:25

• Homicide

In the dictionaries

• Covering
• Light
• Pluck
• Tread
• Job, Book of
• Nothing
• Prove

Commentaries on Job 24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary