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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...
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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...
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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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BECAUSE. Syriac reads "For now"....
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Zophar turns to Job in exhortation and promise....
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_because thou shalt forget_ Or, FOR THOU SHALT FORGET trouble.
_that pass away_ THAT ARE PASSED AWAY....
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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...
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_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...
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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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WATERS] rather, 'floods.'...
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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...
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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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כִּי ־אַ֭תָּה עָמָ֣ל תִּשְׁכָּ֑ח כְּ
מַ֖יִם ע
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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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(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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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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...
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Job 11:16 forget H7911 (H8799) misery H5999 remember H2142 (H8799)
waters H4325 away H5674 (H8804)
Becaus
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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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_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...
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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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Ecclesiastes 5:20; Genesis 41:51; Genesis 9:11; Isaiah 12:1; Isaiah 1
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As waters — Thou shalt remember it no more, than men remember a land
— flood, which as it comes, so it goes away suddenly....