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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Job 11:4

Thou hast said, My doctrine Concerning God and his providence; is pure That is, true and certain. The word לקחי, likchi, according to R. Levi, signifies consuetudo mea, et dispositio mea, my way and manner of life; the same that St. Paul calls η βιωσις μου; my way of life. See Chappelow. And I am clean in thine eyes I am innocent before God: I have not sinned either by my former actions or by my present expressions. But Zophar aggravates and perverts Job's words; for he did not deny that he was a sinner in God's sight; but only that he was a hypocrite or ungodly man, as they thought him to be.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 11:4. _MY DOCTRINE_ is _pure_] לקחי _likchi_, "my assumptions." What I assume or take as right, and just, and true, are so; the precepts which I have formed, and the practice which I have f...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MY DOCTRINE IS PURE - The Septuagint instead of the word “doctrine” here reads “deeds,” ἔργοις _ergois_; the Syriac, “thou sayest I have acted justly.” But the word used here (לקח _leqach_) means pr...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For thou hast said_ Better, AND SAYEST, explaining what his mockery consists in. _My doctrine is pure_ Job had not used precisely such words. Zophar gives what he understands as the gist of his cont...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOU HAST SAID, MY DOCTRINE IS PURE— The Hebrew signifies _my way of life, my morals,_ or _conduct._ Mr. Chappelow rightly observes, that this phrase is the same as is made use of by St. Paul, Acts 26...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    F. PIETY AND PROSPERITYZOPHAR'S RECOMMENDATION: REPENTANCE (Job 11:1-20) 1. Job's punishment is less than he deserves. (Job 11:1-6) TEXT 11:1-6 1 1Then ANSWERED ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE, AND SAID, 2...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FOR THOU HAST SAID, MY DOCTRINE IS PURE, AND I AM CLEAN IN THINE EYES._ Thou hast said, My doctrine is pure - purposely used of Job's speeches, which sounded like lessons of doctrine. "My doctrine s...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    At the start, Job’s friends believed that Job was a good man. But they could not explain why God would allow an innocent man to suffer. So they started to think that Job might, in fact, be evil. In th...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CLEAN IN THINE EYES is variously referred to God, to mortal men (Job 11:3), and to Job himself (Job 32:1). The first seems most to be preferred, for at all events Job had hypothetically spoken of hims...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ֭ תֹּאמֶר זַ֣ךְ לִקְחִ֑י וּ֝ בַ֗ר הָיִ֥יתִי

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For thou hast said, (b) My doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. (b) He charges Job with this, that he should say, that the thing which he spoke was true, and that he was without sin in t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sight. Job had just said the reverse, chap. ix. 2. (St. Chrysostom)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, (2) Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? (3) Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and...

  • 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

    FOR THOU HAST SAID,.... What follows is produced to support the charge, especially of lying, which seems to be founded on what he had said in Job 6:10; MY DOCTRINE [IS] PURE; free from error, unadult...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _For thou hast said, My doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean in thine eyes._ Ver. 4. _For thou hast said_] Thou hast confidently affirmed; and this he makes to be a loud lie, and not an idle word only....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ZOPHAR TRIES TO REPROVE JOB...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For thou hast said, My doctrine, the moral teaching, the tenets which Job had expounded, IS PURE, AND I AM CLEAN IN THINE EYES, Job maintained his purity even over against God....

  • 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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    He is also upset because Job has been trying to justify himself and proclaim his innocence....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 Zophar attacked Job with great vehemence. He represented him as a man that loved to hear himself speak, though he could say nothing to the purpose, and as a man that maintained falsehoods. He des...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MY DOCTRINE, concerning God and his providence. _Pure_, i.e. true and certain. I AM CLEAN IN THINE EYES; I am innocent before God; I have not sinned, either by my former actions, or by my present expr...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 11:4 said H559 (H8799) doctrine H3948 pure H2134 clean H1249 eyes H5869 For thou - Job 6:10,...

  • 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

    _Then answered Zophar the Naamathite._ THE ATTITUDE OF JOB’S FRIENDS In this chapter Zophar gives his first speech, and it is sharper toned than those which went before. The three friends have now al...

  • 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

    1 Peter 3:15; Job 10:7; Job 14:4; Job 34:5; Job 34:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Doctrine — Concerning God and his providence. Clean — I am innocent before God; I have not sinned either by my former actions, or by my present expressions. But Zophar perverts Job's words, for he did...

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