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Job 11:18

because there is hope In opposition to Job's desponding pictures of his life, ch. Job 7:6 seq., Job 9:25 seq., Job 10:20 seq.

thou shalt dig about thee Rather, thou shalt look, or search, about thee, cf. ch. Job 39:29; Deuteronomy 1:22. Job, as one naturally does before retiring to rest, will look around to see if there be any danger near or cause of disquietude, and seeing none will take his rest in safety.

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See also Job 11:18 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 11:18. _AND THOU SHALT BE SECURE_] Thou shalt not fear any farther evils to disturb thy prosperity, for thou shalt have a well-grounded _hope_ and confidence that thou shalt no more be visit...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THOU SHALT BE SECURE - You will feel confident that your prosperity will be permanent, and you will be free from the distressing anxieties and fears which you now have. THOU SHALT DIG ABOUT THEE...

  • 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

    BE SECURE. On this verse see translation below. DIG. look about, as in Joshua 2:2. Compare Ch. Job 39:29, i.e. before lying down (Job 11:19)....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THOU SHALT BE SECURE, BECAUSE THERE IS HOPE— _Thou shalt also be confident, because hope shall be with thee: thou shalt dig securely; thou shalt have a quiet habitation. Thou shalt dig securely_ a...

  • 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 THOU SHALT BE SECURE, BECAUSE THERE IS HOPE; YEA, THOU SHALT DIG ABOUT THEE, AND THOU SHALT TAKE THY REST IN SAFETY._ Thou shalt be secure, because there is hope. The experience of thy life will...

  • 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

    DIG] RV 'search,' viz. for danger, but find none....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU SHALT DIG ABOUT THEE. — Rather, _thou shalt look around or search about thee, and see that thou canst lie down in safety._ (Comp. Joshua 2:2, and Job 39:29.) The same word means, indeed, to _dig_...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּֽ֭ בָטַחְתָּ כִּי ־יֵ֣שׁ תִּקְוָ֑ה וְ֝ חָפַ

  • 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

    _Secure, dying full of hope. (Chaldean) Hebrew, "thou shalt dig," (for water, which was there a great treasure, Genesis xxi. 25., and xxvi. 15.) or to fasten down thy tent, (Calmet) "and rest secure....

  • 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...

  • 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 THOU SHALL BE SECURE,.... From coming into like darkness, difficulties, and distress again, and from every evil and enemy; nothing shall come nigh to disturb and hurt, nothing to be feared from an...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig [about thee, and] thou shalt take thy rest in safety. Ver. 18. _And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope_] It is a spiritua...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ZOPHAR ADMONISHES JOB TO REPENT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And thou shalt be secure, have the firm confidence, BECAUSE THERE IS HOPE, the text emphasizing the real and lasting existence of this hope; YEA, THOU SHALT DIG ABOUT THEE, looking about through his h...

  • 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...

  • 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

    i.e. Thy mind shall be quiet and free from terrors, because thou shalt have a firm and well-grounded hope and confidence in God's merciful and providential care of thee. Or, _thou shalt be confident t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 11:18 secure H982 (H8804) is H3426 hope H8615 dig H2658 (H8804) rest H7901 (H8799) safety...

  • 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

    _And thou shalt be secure._ THE PRACTICAL ADVANTAGES OF RELIGION These words represent to us the comfortable state of that man who has God for his protector and friend; the security and safety which...

  • 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

    Colossians 1:27; Job 22:27; Job 6:11; Job 7:6; Leviticus 26:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Secure — Thy mind shall be quiet and free from terrors, because thou shalt have a firm and well — grounded confidence in God. Dig — Either to fix thy tents, which after the manner of the Arabians were...

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