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Verse Job 13:15. _THOUGH HE SLAY ME_] I have no dependence but God; I
trust in him alone. Should he even destroy my life by this affliction,
yet will I hope that when he has tried me, I shall come fo...
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THOUGH HE SLAY ME - “God may so multiply my sorrows and pains that I
cannot survive them. I see that I may be exposed to increased
calamities, yet I am willing to meet them. If in maintaining my own
c...
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CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR
_ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_
2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7)
3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1)
4. He appeals to God ...
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Job turns to plead his cause with God. He will speak whatever it costs
(Job 13:13). This also, he says, shall be my deliverance, that a
godless man will not come before Him. Job means that his deliver...
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TRUST IN HIM. wait for Him. Hebrew. _yahal._ See App-69....
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The general meaning of Job 13:14 must be the same however the verse is
construed, though it may be expressed in two ways, viz. either, Why
should I painfully strive to preserve my life? or, I am ready...
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Job now turns from his friends, whom he commands to be silent, to his
great plea with God, resuming the intention expressed in Job 13:3. The
passage has two parts, one preliminary, Job 13:13, exhibiti...
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THOUGH HE SLAY ME, &C.— It is impossible to understand this of a
temporal deliverance; for how should a man hope for this, _though he
were slain?_ This passage, according to another reading, is, "Lo,...
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5. Job would dare to present his case before God. (Job 13:13-19)
TEXT 13:13-19
13 HOLD your PEACE, LET ME ALONE, that I may speak;
AND LET COME ON ME WHAT WILL.
14 Wherefore should I TAKE my flesh...
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_THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST IN HIM: BUT I WILL MAINTAIN MINE
OWN WAYS BEFORE HIM._
In him - so the margin, or Qeri', reads х_ LOW_ (H3807a)]. But the
textual reading (Kethibh) is 'not,' whic...
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JOB'S THIRD SPEECH (CONTINUED)
1-12. Job claims to understand as much about God as the friends. He
rejects their opinion as to the cause of his troubles, and regards it
as an attempt to curry favour...
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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 13
JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
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An evil man is afraid to meet God. God will punish that man for his
evil deeds.
Job’s friends thought that Job was evil. They warned him not to
argue with God. They told him to change his behaviour....
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THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST IN HIM. — This rendering is
almost proverbial; but, to say the least, its accuracy is very
doubtful, for the better reading does not warrant it, but runs thus:
_Beh...
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הֵ֣ן יִ֭קְטְלֵנִי _לֹ֣ו_† אֲיַחֵ֑ל
אַךְ ־דְּ֝רָכַ֗י אֶל
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XII.
BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD
Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1
Job SPEAKS
ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set
down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
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“THOUGH HE SLAY ME”
Job 13:1
The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4. Then he makes an
appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his
sins, for which he was sufferin...
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Continuing his answer, Job restated his conviction that his knowledge
was not inferior to theirs, and declared that his appeal was to God
(1-3). Before making this appeal there is an introductory pass...
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In him. Hebrew lu is read, though lo, "not," is written in the Hebrew
text. (Haydock) --- Protestants, &c., follow the sense of the Vulgate,
and Junius comes to the same, as he reads lo with an interr...
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(1) В¶ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and
understood it. (2) What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not
inferior unto you. (3) Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I
de...
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_THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW_
‘Though He slay me, yet will I trust in him.’
Job 13:15
It is not certain that we know the exact meaning of the words of the
old Patriarch Job, but we find just the same...
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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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THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST IN HIM,.... There is a double
reading of these words; the "Keri", or marginal reading, is לו, "in
him", which we follow; the "Cetib", or textual reading, is לא,
"no...
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Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine
own ways before him.
Ver. 15. _Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him_] Though he
should multiply my miseries, and lay stroke...
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_Though he slay me_ But though God should yet more and more increase
my torments, so that I could bear them no longer, but should perceive
myself to be at the point of death, without any hope of recov...
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Though He slay me, namely, through the disease which was now racking
him, YET WILL I TRUST IN HIM, he would not give way to dread for the
future, hopeless as it seemed; BUT I WILL MAINTAIN MINE OWN WA...
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Job's Comfort and Prayer...
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JOB DECLARES HIMSELF FULLY EQUAL TO HIS FRIENDS
(vv.1-12)
Job has spoken at length of God's wisdom and power, now he tells
Zophar that his eye has seen all this, his ear has heard it and
understood...
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MAINTAIN:
_ Heb._ prove, or argue...
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"THOUGH HE SLAY ME,. WILL HOPE IN HIM": Job was far more interested in
justice than in preserving his own life. "He was willing to risk it
because of the remote possibility that God would exonerate hi...
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13-22 Job resolved to cleave to the testimony his own conscience gave
of his uprightness. He depended upon God for justification and
salvation, the two great things we hope for through Christ. Tempor...
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Though God should yet more and more increase my torments, so that I
could bear them no longer, but should perceive myself to be at the
point of death, and without all hopes of recovery in this world....
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Job 13:15 Though H2005 slay H6991 (H8799) trust H3176 (H8762) defend
H3198 (H8686) ways H1870 befo
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Job 13:15
The object of the writer of the book of Job is to discuss a question
which, from its interest no less than its obscurity, has been the
subject of debate and anxiety in all ages: What is the...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer to three friends continued.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends.
CONCLUSION: We should presevere in the way of duty, though it cost us
all that is dear to us in this world, re...
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Job 13:4. _Forgers of lies,_ misconstruing the ways of providence.
Job 13:10 , _He will surely reprove you,_ though under a specious veil
you accept of persons.
Job 13:12. _Your remembrances are like...
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_Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him _
A MISINTERPRETED VERSE, AND A MISAPPREHENDED GOD
How often have these words been the vehicle of a sublime faith in the
hour of supreme crisis! It is alw...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 13:3 Before he turns to address his lament directly
to God (Job 13:20), Job argues that his friends have misdiagnosed him
(WORTHLESS PHYSICIANS;...
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_JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR—CONTINUED_
I. Job re-asserts his knowledge of the Divine procedure as not
inferior to that of his friends (Job 13:1).
“Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumstances to main...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 13:1, JOB 13:2
The first two verses of Job 13:1. are closely connected with Job 12:1;
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Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood. Now
what you know, the same I also know. I am not inferior to you. Surely
I would speak to the Almighty, and I would desire to reason wit...