It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
Job 20:25 stands in the debate between Job and his three friends on the subject of his afflictions in chapters 4 to 31, which is the second of four parts of the book and consists of three circles of speeches by each. Within that debate it belongs to Zophar's second speech declaring the portion of the wicked, which is among the friends' speeches about the punishment of evil. It stands in the closing discussion in which the three friends condemned Job because of his seeming self-righteousness, and he rejected their words because he felt they were condemning him unjustly. The friends' statements that evil will ultimately be punished may be generally true, but they wrongly applied them to Job's suffering, since his affliction did not prove that God was displeased with him. Speeches of this kind are unreliable in what they say about Job and God, and their statements should not be treated as truth unless they are supported by inspired declarations elsewhere in Scripture.
Job 20:25 stands in the debate between Job and his three friends on the subject of his afflictions in chapters 4 to 31, which is the second of four parts of the book and consists of three circles of speeches by each. Within that debate it belongs to Zophar's second speech declaring the portion of the wicked, which is among the friends' speeches about the punishment of evil. It stands in the closing discussion in which the three friends condemned Job because of his seeming self-righteousness, and he rejected their words because he felt they were condemning him unjustly. The friends' statements that evil will ultimately be punished may be generally true, but they wrongly applied them to Job's suffering, since his affliction did not prove that God was displeased with him. Speeches of this kind are unreliable in what they say about Job and God, and their statements should not be treated as truth unless they are supported by inspired declarations elsewhere in Scripture.