Job 27:11

by the hand of God Rather, concerning the hand of God. In a brief preface Job intimates that he will instruct his friends regarding the hand of God, that is, His operation, His method of dealing with the wicked.

with the Almighty There is no just ground for restricting the phrase withthe Almighty to the meaning, the plans or purposes of the Almighty, the general principles of His government, which continue to be His principles though they may not for a time appear in actual operation. Such a limitation is interpolated into the text, and is contrary to the parallelism of the first clause. In Job 27:13 the same phrase occurs, "the portion of the wicked man withGod," which is interpreted in the next clause as "the heritage which they receive fromthe Almighty." The words refer to no idealof moral government, such as always exists and mayalways manifest itself; they describe God's actual treatment of the wicked man, apart from all limitation. This is the doctrine of the three friends; that of Job in ch. 21, and even ch. 24 was very different.