New English Translation
Job 24:25
25“If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
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 may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways. 24They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.’ “If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
Read all of Job 24Job 24:25 word by word
וְאִם־לֹ֣א אֵ֭פוֹ מִ֣י יַכְזִיבֵ֑נִי וְיָשֵׂ֥ם לְ֝אַ֗ל מִלָּתִֽי׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 24:25
- Job 9:24If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?
- Job 11:2“Should not this abundance of words be answered, or should this talkative man be vindicated?
- Job 15:2“Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east 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
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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
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