Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away. Just as when the stream runs dry (Job 6:17), the danger threatened by its wild waves is forgotten. "The former troubles are forgotten; they are hid from mine eyes" (Isaiah 65:16). (Umbreit.)
Verse Job 11:16. _BECAUSE THOU SHALT FORGET THY MISERY_] Thou shalt have such long and complete rest, that thou shalt scarcely remember thy _labour_. _AS WATERS_ THAT _PASS AWAY_] Like as the mounta...
AND REMEMBER IT AS WATERS THAT PASS AWAY - As calamity that has completely gone by, or that has rolled on and will return no more. The comparison is beautiful. The water of the river is borne by us, a...
CHAPTER 11 ZOPHAR'S FIRST ADDRESS _ 1. Job's multitude of words rebuked (Job 11:1)_ 2. The greatness and omniscience of God (Job 11:7) 3. That Job repent and receive the Blessings (Job 11:13)...
SPEECH OF ZOPHAR.Job has shown that the assumption, that on account of the Divine righteousness only human sin can be the cause of misfortune, leads to the worst conclusions as to God's nature. What a...
BECAUSE. Syriac reads "For now"....
_because thou shalt forget_ Or, FOR THOU SHALT FORGET trouble. _that pass away_ THAT ARE PASSED AWAY....
Zophar turns to Job in exhortation and promise....
3. The penitent will prosper; for the wicked there is no hope. (Job 11:13-20) TEXT 11:13-20 13 If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch OAT THY HANDS TOWARD HIM; 14 If iniquity be in thy hand, pu...
THE FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence....
WATERS] rather, 'floods.'...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 11 ZOPHAR’S FIRST SPEECH G...
These are beautiful words. In heaven, our lives will be like this. But in this world, sometimes good people must suffer, like Job. And sometimes our friends, like Job’s friends, will give us the wrong...
כִּי ־אַ֭תָּה עָמָ֣ל תִּשְׁכָּ֑ח כְּ מַ֖יִם ע
XI. A FRESH ATTEMPT TO CONVICT Job 11:1 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE third and presumably youngest of the three friends of Job now takes up the argument somewhat in the same strain as the others. With no wis...
“CANST THOU BY SEARCHING FIND OUT GOD?” Job 11:1 Zophar waxes vehement as he censures Job's self-justification and his refusal to acknowledge the guilt which his friends attribute to him. There is s...
When Job had ceased, Zophar, the last of the three friends, answered him. His method was characterized by even greater plainness than that of Bildad. Indeed, there was a roughness and directness about...
(13) В¶ If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; (14) If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. (15) For then shalt th...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
BECAUSE THOU SHALL FORGET [THY] MISERY,.... Former afflictions and distresses; having an abundance of prosperity and happiness, and long continued; and so, in process of time, the miseries and distres...
Because thou shalt forget [thy] misery, [and] remember [it] as waters [that] pass away: Ver. 16. _Because thou shalt forget thy misery_] There being no fear left, or footstep thereof remaining to ren...
_Because thou shalt forget thy misery_ Thy happiness shall be so great that it shall blot out the remembrance of thy past miseries; _and remember it as waters that pass away_ Thou shalt remember it no...
because thou shalt forget thy misery, all the trouble which was now besetting him, AND REMEMBER IT AS WATERS THAT PASS AWAY, that flow by in a stream and make no lasting impression upon the memory,...
ZOPHAR ADMONISHES JOB TO REPENT...
ZOPHAR'S CRUEL ACCUSATION (vv.1-6) Zophar was likely the youngest of the three men, and what he lacks in maturity he makes up for in bitter accusation against Job. He did not have such restraint as...
13-20 Zophar exhorts Job to repentance, and gives him encouragement, yet mixed with hard thoughts of him. He thought that worldly prosperity was always the lot of the righteous, and that Job was to b...
Thou shalt be free from fear, because thy great and settled prosperity shall banish out of thy mind all those sad and irksome thoughts of thy former calamities, which naturally engender fears of the c...
Job 11:16 forget H7911 (H8799) misery H5999 remember H2142 (H8799) waters H4325 away H5674 (H8804) Becaus
The words we are about to read were spoken by one of Job's three friends, or what if I call them his three tormentors? These men did not speak wisely, and their argument was not altogether sound; but,...
CONTENTS: Zophar's theory of Job's condition. He thinks Job a hypocrite and liar. CHARACTERS: God, Zophar, Job. CONCLUSION: Those are not always in the right who are most forward to express their ju...
Job 11:3. _Thy lies;_ that is, thy device, as in the margin; _jactantias tuas,_ thy boastings, the delicacy of thy turns of speech, to extenuate thy sins: He does not mean gross lies and untruths, bec...
_Thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away._ COMFORT FROM THE FUTURE Job’s misery was extreme, and it seemed as if he could never forget it. He never did forget the fact...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 11:1 Like Bildad (Job 8:1), Zophar accuses Job of being presumptuous and speaking empty words. ⇐
_FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR_ Zophar follows in the same train with his companions. Misled by the same false principle—great sufferings prove great sins—he acts the part, not of a comforter, but of a repr...
EXPOSITION JOB 11:1 Zophar, the Naamathite, the third of Job's comforters (Job 2:11), and probably the youngest of them, now at last takes the word, and delivers an angry and violent speech. He begin...
Shall we turn to the eleventh chapter of the book of Job. And in chapter 11 we hear from Job's third friend, old Zophar, and he gets his two cents worth in. Now for you that weren't here last Sunday n...
Ecclesiastes 5:20; Genesis 41:51; Genesis 9:11; Isaiah 12:1; Isaiah 1
As waters — Thou shalt remember it no more, than men remember a land — flood, which as it comes, so it goes away suddenly....