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Verse Job 13:20. _ONLY DO NOT TWO_ THINGS _UNTO ME_] These _two_
things are the following:
1. _Withdraw thine hand far from me_-remove the heavy affliction which
thy hand has inflicted.
2. _Let not...
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ONLY DO NOT TWO - things “unto me.” The two things which are
specified in the following verse. This is an address to God as Job
argues his cause before him, and the request is, that he would remove
ev...
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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 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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Assured of victory, he commands his friends to mark his pleading of
his cause....
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Yet the thought recurs before whom he is to appear and against whom he
has to maintain his plea, and he begs God to grant two conditions, cf.
ch. Job 9:34-35....
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6. He calls on God for an arraignment. (Job 13:20-28)
TEXT 13:20-28
20 Only do NOT TWO THINGS UNTO ME:
Then will I not hide myself from thy face:
21 WITHDRAW THY HAND far FROM ME;
And let not thy...
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_ONLY DO NOT TWO THINGS UNTO ME: THEN WILL I NOT HIDE MYSELF FROM
THEE._
Address to God.
NOT HIDE - stand forth boldly to maintain my cause....
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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 was still suffering greatly. He asked God to take the pain away.
Then Job would be ready to speak to God as his judge....
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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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WILL I NOT HIDE MYSELF FROM THEE — _i.e._, “I shall not be
hidden” — quite a different word from that in Genesis 3:10, though
the comparison of the two places is not without interest....
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אַךְ ־שְׁ֭תַּיִם אַל ־תַּ֣עַשׂ
עִמָּדִ֑י אָ֥ז...
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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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_Only. He makes the same petition to God as [in] chap. ix. 34., and
xxxiii. 7. (Haydock)_...
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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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ONLY DO NOT TWO [THINGS] UNTO ME,.... This is an address not to Zophar
as in the place of God, as to me, but to God himself; by this it
appears, that though in modesty he does not mention him, yet he...
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Only do not two [things] unto me: then will I not hide myself from
thee.
Ver. 20. _Only do not two things unto me_] Accord me only two
conditions, and then I will not fly the combat. He knew he might...
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Let me only beg, O great Judge of all, that thou wilt forbear to make
use of _two things_ against _me. Then will I not hide myself from
thee_ Then will I appear confidently to plead my cause before th...
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Only do not two things unto me, those mentioned in the next verse,
calamities and terror; THEN WILL I NOT HIDE MYSELF FROM THEE, rather
standing forth boldly to maintain his cause....
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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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"Job has not hesitated to address God earlier (Job 7:12-21; Job
9:28-33; Job 10:2-19), nor will he now (Job 13:20-
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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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Which two he expresseth JOB 13:21. Then shall I boldly present myself
and cause before thee....
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Job 13:20 two H8147 do H6213 (H8799) hide H5641 (H8735) You H6440
do not two - Job 9:34-35
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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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_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...
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Genesis 3:8; Job 9:34; Job 9:35; Psalms 139:12; Revelation 6:15;...