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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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)....
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Zophar turns to Job in exhortation and promise....
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_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, ab...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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THE FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR
The speech is short and unsympathetic.
1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence....
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DIG] RV 'search,' viz. for danger, but find none....
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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...
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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 11
ZOPHAR’S FIRST SPEECH
G...
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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_...
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וּֽ֭ בָטַחְתָּ כִּי ־יֵ֣שׁ תִּקְוָ֑ה
וְ֝ חָפַ
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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_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....
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(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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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ZOPHAR ADMONISHES JOB TO REPENT...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 11:1 Like Bildad (Job 8:1), Zophar accuses Job of
being presumptuous and speaking empty words.
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Colossians 1:27; Job 22:27; Job 6:11; Job 7:6; Leviticus 26:5;...
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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...