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MANY SHALL MAKE SUIT UNTO THEE - Many shall come in a suppliant manner
to ask counsel and advice. The meaning is, that he would be a man of
distinction, to whom many would look for counsel. This was e...
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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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MAKE SUIT, &C. Hebrew intreat thy face: i.e. seek thy favour....
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_make suit unto thee_ The phrase means literally: shall stroke thy
face, i. e. supplicate or flatter thee. Proverbs 19:6; Psalms 45:12.
The picture which Zophar draws of Job's restored prosperity is...
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Zophar turns to Job in exhortation and promise....
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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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_ALSO THOU SHALT LIE DOWN, AND NONE SHALL MAKE THEE AFRAID; YEA, MANY
SHALL MAKE SUIT UNTO THEE._
Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid. (Psalms
4:8; Proverbs 3:24; Isaiah 14:30.)...
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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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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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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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וְֽ֭ רָבַצְתָּ וְ אֵ֣ין מַחֲרִ֑יד וְ
חִלּ֖וּ
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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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_Face. Luther translates "shall flatter thee." The Dutch version,
which is taken from Luther's, has mistaken a letter, and rendered
"shall flee before thee," which shews the danger of translating
with...
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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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ALSO THOU SHALL LIE DOWN, AND NONE SHALL MAKE [THEE] AFRAID,....
Either lie down on his bed, as before, or by his flocks, and where
they lie down, and none should disturb him or them; not thieves and...
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Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make [thee] afraid; yea, many
shall make suit unto thee.
Ver. 19. _Thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid_] Thou
shalt walk about the world like...
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_Thou shalt be secure, because there is hope_ Thy mind shall be quiet
and free from terrors, because thou shalt have a firm and
well-grounded confidence in God. _Thou shalt dig_ Either to fix thy
tent...
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Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid, in full
peace and security; YEA, MANY SHALL MAKE SUIT UNTO THEE, literally,
"stroke thy face," flattering him and begging a special favor fro...
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ZOPHAR ADMONISHES JOB TO REPENT...
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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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MAKE SUIT UNTO THEE:
_ Heb._ intreat thy face...
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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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Desiring thy favour and friendship, because of thy great power, and
riches, and eminent felicity: see GENESIS 26:26, &c....
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Job 11:19 down H7257 (H8804) afraid H2729 (H8688) many H7227 favor
H2470 (H8765) H6440...
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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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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...