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IF INIQUITY BE IN THINE HAND - If you have in your possession anything
that has been unjustly obtained. If you have oppressed the poor and
the fatherless, and have what properly belongs to them, let i...
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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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TABERNACLES. tents. Some codices, with one early printed edition,
Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "tent" (singular)
App-40....
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Zophar turns to Job in exhortation and promise....
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The reformation which Zophar impresses on Job has several steps:
first, the preparation of his heart; then, prayer unto God; then, the
putting away of his personal sins; and finally, those of his home...
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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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_IF INIQUITY BE IN THINE HAND, PUT IT FAR AWAY, AND LET NOT WICKEDNESS
DWELL IN THY TABERNACLES._
If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away. Umbreit translates-`If
thou wilt put far away the iniq...
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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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TABERNACLES] RV 'tents.'...
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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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Job was well-known for his good character (Job 29:11-12). So Zophar
thought that Job’s evil deeds must be secret. Jesus also taught that
God sees our private behaviour (Matthew 6:1-4)....
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אִם ־אָ֣וֶן בְּ֭ יָדְךָ הַרְחִיקֵ֑הוּ
וְ אַל
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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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If iniquity [be] in thine (h) hand, put it far away, and let not
wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
(h) Renounce your own evil works and see that they do not offend God,
over whom you have charge....
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_Iniquity. Of this Job was not conscious, and therefore could not
confess it. (Worthington)_...
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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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IF INIQUITY [BE] IN THINE HAND,.... For, as the heart must be prepared
for the stretching out of the hand in prayer to God, so it is not any
hand that is to be stretched out or lifted up unto God; not...
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If iniquity [be] in thine hand, put it far away, and let not
wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Ver. 14. _If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away_] Cast away
all thy transgressions, and throw...
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if iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness
dwell in thy tabernacles, for without this evidence of a repentant
heart the Lord would not heed his prayer....
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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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Either,
1. If thou hast in thine hand or possession any good, got by injury or
oppression, as it seems they supposed that he had. Or,
2. More generally, If thou allowest thyself in any sinful practic...
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Job 11:14 iniquity H205 hand H3027 away H7368 (H8685) wickedness H5766
dwell H7931 (H8686) tents H168
iniqu
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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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_If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands towards
Him._
THE WAY TO HAPPINESS
I purpose to show you that happiness is within your reach, and to
point out the means by which it may be...
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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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Ezekiel 18:30; Ezekiel 18:31; Isaiah 1:15; James 4:8; Job 22:23;...