Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 6. The tabernacles of robbers prosper. ] Those who live by the plunder of their neighbours are often found in great secular prosperity; and they that provoke God by impiety and blasphemy live in a state of security and affluence. These are administrations of Providence which cannot be accounted for; yet the Judge of all the earth does right. Therefore prosperity and adversity are no evidences of a man's spiritual state, nor of the place he holds in the approbation or disapprobation of God.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-11 - Job appeals to facts. The most audacious robbers, oppressors, an impious wretches, often prosper. Yet this is not by fortune or chance the Lord orders these things. Worldly prosperity is of small value in his sight: he has better things for his children. Job resolves all int the absolute proprietorship which God has in all the creatures. He demands from his friends liberty to judge of what they had said; he appeals to any fair judgment. (Job 12:12-25)
Original Hebrew ישׁליו7951 אהלים168 לשׁדדים7703 ובטחות987 למרגיזי7264 אל410 לאשׁר834 הביא935 אלוה433 בידו׃3027
