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Verse Job 11:3. _SHOULD THY LIES MAKE MEN HOLD THEIR PEACE?_] This is
a very severe reproof, and not justified by the occasion.
_AND WHEN THOU MOCKEST_] As thou despisest others, shall no man put
th...
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SHOULD THY LIES - Margin, “devices.” Rosenmuller renders this,
“should men bear thy boastings with silence?” Dr. Good, “before
thee would man-kind keep silence?” Vulgate, “tibi soli tacebunt
homines?”...
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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)...
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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...
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LIES. babblings.
NO MAN. none....
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_Should thy lies_ Or, _Shall thy boastings_, or, as Reuss, "ton
verbiage." The reference is probably to Job's assertions of his own
innocence, or perhaps the general scope of his speech. The word "men...
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F. PIETY AND PROSPERITYZOPHAR'S RECOMMENDATION: REPENTANCE (Job
11:1-20)
1. Job's punishment is less than he deserves. (Job 11:1-6)
TEXT 11:1-6
1 1Then ANSWERED ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE, AND SAID,
2...
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_SHOULD THY LIES MAKE MEN HOLD THEIR PEACE? AND WHEN THOU MOCKEST,
SHALL NO MAN MAKE THEE ASHAMED?_
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? - "lies" - rather, vain
boasting х_ BADIYM_ (H907)] (Isa...
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THE FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR
The speech is short and unsympathetic.
1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence....
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THY LIES] RV 'thy boastings,' viz. Job's assertions of innocence (Job
11:4)....
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Zophar’s words seem angry. Job’s speech upset Zophar. Eliphaz
wanted to encourage Job (Job 4:3-6). Bildad wanted to correct Job (Job
8:2-4). But Zophar wanted to warn Job....
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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...
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בַּ֭דֶּיךָ מְתִ֣ים יַחֲרִ֑ישׁו וַ֝
תִּלְעַ֗ג וְ...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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(1) В¶ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, (2) Should not
the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be
justified? (3) Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and...
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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...
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SHOULD THY LIES MAKE MEN HOLD THEIR PEACE?.... By which he means,
either lies in common, untruths wilfully told, which are sins of a
scandalous nature, which good men will not dare to commit knowingly...
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Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest,
shall no man make thee ashamed?
Ver. 3. _Should thy lies make men hold their peace?_] Or, thy toys,
toilsome toys, hammered in thine...
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_Should thy lies_ That is, thy false opinions and assertions, both
concerning thyself and thy own innocence, and concerning the counsels
and ways of God, _make men hold their peace_? As if thy argumen...
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ZOPHAR TRIES TO REPROVE JOB...
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Should thy lies, rather, "chatter, vain babbling," MAKE MEN HOLD THEIR
PEACE? "Men" is emphatic; no one who calls himself a man will remain
silent with such talk going on. AND WHEN THOU MOCKEST, both...
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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...
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LIES:
Or, devices...
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Zophar does not merely consider Job's speech to be empty and
unnecessary, but that his speeches are boasting and scoffing. Job is
far more than merely. windbag, he is. blasphemer. Job has denied that...
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1-6 Zophar attacked Job with great vehemence. He represented him as a
man that loved to hear himself speak, though he could say nothing to
the purpose, and as a man that maintained falsehoods. He des...
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THY LIES, i.e. thy false opinions and assertions, both concerning
thyself and thy own innocency, and concerning the counsels and ways of
God, make men hold their peace; as if thy arguments were unansw...
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Job 11:3 talk H907 men H4962 peace H2790 (H8686) mock H3932 (H8799)
rebuke H3637 (H8688)
thy lies - or, thy de
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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_Then answered Zophar the Naamathite._
THE ATTITUDE OF JOB’S FRIENDS
In this chapter Zophar gives his first speech, and it is sharper toned
than those which went before. The three friends have now al...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 11:1 Like Bildad (Job 8:1), Zophar accuses Job of
being presumptuous and speaking empty words.
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Thessalonians 3:14; Jeremiah 15:17; Job 12:4; Job 13:4; Job 13:9;...
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Lies — Both concerning thy own innocency, and concerning the
counsels and ways of God. Mockest — Our friendly and faithful
counsels, Job 6:14, Job 6:25....