Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
Job 20:6 stands in Zophar's second speech declaring the portion of the wicked. That speech belongs to the debate between Job and his three friends about his afflictions and suffering that runs from chapters 4 to 31. As part of those arguments about suffering, its statements could express general truths but were wrongly applied to Job, so suffering does not prove that a person is under God's displeasure. As part of a speech by one of Job's friends, its claims about God and Job are not to be treated as true when they conflict with inspired teaching elsewhere in Scripture.
Even though the wicked oppressor rises ever so high, his rejoicing is vain and lasts only a moment. Together with the surrounding verses it shows the true destiny of the wicked is destruction and perishing and coming to an end, not torment forever. It corrects the reading of Revelation 20:10 and gives with other scriptures a well-balanced knowledge. At the appearing of Christ the saints have their day, receiving power over the nations to rule them with a rod of iron and receiving a crown of life, while the oppressor is broken in pieces and the vain rejoicing of those who would scarcely allow the saints a being among them is turned into mourning and lamentation.
Job 20:6 stands in Zophar's second speech declaring the portion of the wicked. That speech belongs to the debate between Job and his three friends about his afflictions and suffering that runs from chapters 4 to 31. As part of those arguments about suffering, its statements could express general truths but were wrongly applied to Job, so suffering does not prove that a person is under God's displeasure. As part of a speech by one of Job's friends, its claims about God and Job are not to be treated as true when they conflict with inspired teaching elsewhere in Scripture.
Even though the wicked oppressor rises ever so high, his rejoicing is vain and lasts only a moment. Together with the surrounding verses it shows the true destiny of the wicked is destruction and perishing and coming to an end, not torment forever. It corrects the reading of Revelation 20:10 and gives with other scriptures a well-balanced knowledge. At the appearing of Christ the saints have their day, receiving power over the nations to rule them with a rod of iron and receiving a crown of life, while the oppressor is broken in pieces and the vain rejoicing of those who would scarcely allow the saints a being among them is turned into mourning and lamentation.