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Job 11:17

and thine age Or, as we should say, and life, Psalms 17:14; Psalms 39:5.

thou shalt shine forth Rather, if there be darkness, it shall be as the morning. Even should temporary darkness occur it will not be utter, but light like the morning. This seems said in opposition to Job's mournful words, ch. Job 10:22, "where the light is as darkness." The present words might also mean that the darkness shall be not a continual obscurity but one which a morning comes to dispel.

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See also Job 11:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 11:17. _THINE AGE SHALL BE CLEARER THAN THE NOONDAY_] The _rest_ _of thy life_ shall be unclouded prosperity. _THOU SHALT SHINE FORTH_] Thou shalt be in this unclouded state, as the sun in...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THINE AGE - Thy life. This does not mean old age, but the idea is, that his life would be cheerful and happy. CLEARER THAN THE NOON-DAY - Margin, “Arise above the noon-day.” The margin is a liter...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AGE. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the things done in it. See below. Hebrew. _heled,_ like Greek. _aion._ SHINE FORTH. soar or shoot upward like the rays of the rising s...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THINE AGE SHALL BE CLEARER THAN THE NOON-DAY— _Thy continuance in this life shall be as the noon-day; thy darkness_ or _thy present obscurity itself as the morning light._ Houbigant and Schultens....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THINE AGE SHALL BE CLEARER THAN THE NOONDAY; THOU SHALT SHINE FORTH, THOU SHALT BE AS THE MORNING._ Thine age (days, or life) shall be clearer than the noon-day - namely, of thy former prosperit...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    11:17 life (e-2) 'lifetime,' as Psalms 39:5 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    _Thine_ AGE] RV '_thy_ life.' THOU SHALT SHINE] RV 'Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THINE AGE SHALL BE CLEARER THAN THE NOONDAY. — Rather, _there shall arise for thee a lifetime brighter than the_ _noonday; thou shalt soar on high; thou shalt be like the morning,_ which is conceived...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּֽ֭ מִ צָּהֳרַיִם יָק֣וּם חָ֑לֶד תָּ֝עֻ֗פָה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Brightness. Septuagint, "But thy prayer, like the day-star and life, shall arise to thee from the south, or as at noon-day." Hebrew, "Thy age (Haydock) shall appear clearer than the noon-day, and dar...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE BRIGHT SIDE OF GROWING OLDER_ ‘And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.’ Job 11:17 Nobody ever does, naturally, like the idea of g...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND [THINE] AGE SHALL BE CLEARER THAN THE NOONDAY,.... That is, the remainder of his days; the latter part of his life, which was yet to come, should be no more attended with the darkness of adversity...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And [thine] age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. Ver. 17. _And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday_] The rest of thy life which thou gi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And thine age shall be clearer than the noon-day_ The remainder of thy life in this world shall be more glorious than the sun at noon. Hebrew, יקים, _jakum, shall arise above the noon-day_, or above...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ZOPHAR ADMONISHES JOB TO REPENT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and thine age shall be clearer than the noonday, literally, "brighter than noon shall be the duration or way of thy life," his entire future life would be lifted out of the darkness of the present mis...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SHALL BE CLEARER THAN THE NOON DAY: _ Heb._ shall arise above the noonday...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THINE AGE, i.e. the remainder of thy life and time in this world. SHALL BE CLEARER, Heb. _shall arise_. Men are said to fall into troubles, and to arise out of them. THAN THE NOON-DAY; or, _above the...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 11:17 life H2465 brighter H6965 (H8799) noonday H6672 dark H5774 (H8799) morning H1242 age -...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou shalt shine forth._ SHINING FOR JESUS A beautiful parable showing how we can live for Christ, by shining for Him, speaks from every lawn covered with hoar frost in winter, when the sun shines o...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 11:1 Like Bildad (Job 8:1), Zophar accuses Job of being presumptuous and speaking empty words. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 29:10; Hosea 6:3; Isaiah 58:8; Job 42:11; Luke 2:26;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Shine — Light in scripture commonly signifies prosperity and glory. Thy comfort, like the morning — light shall shine brighter and brighter, until the perfect day....

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