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Verse Job 13:23. _HOW MANY_ ARE _MINE INIQUITIES_] Job being
permitted to begin first, enters immediately upon the subject; and as
it was a fact that he was grievously afflicted, and this his friends...
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HOW MANY ARE MINE INIQUITIES AND SINS? - Job takes the place of the
plaintiff or accuser. He opens the cause. He appeals to God to state
the catalogue of his crimes, or to bring forward his charges of...
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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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HOW MANY... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
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Job 13:22 to Job 14:22. Job pleads his cause before God
Having ordered his cause and challenged his friends to observe how he
will plead, Job now enters, with the boldness and proud bearing of one
as...
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Job begins his plea with the demand to know the number of his sins how
many iniquities and sins have I? and in general to be made aware of
them. He means what great sins he is guilty of, sins that acc...
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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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_HOW MANY ARE MINE INIQUITIES AND SINS? MAKE ME TO KNOW MY
TRANSGRESSION AND MY SIN._
The catalogue of my sins ought to be great, to judge from the severity
with which God ever anew crushes one alrea...
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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, 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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Job was a good man. But he sometimes had doubts. And nobody is
perfect. So Job asked God whether Job had done something wrong. If so,
Job should confess his evil deed and he should ask God to forgive...
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HOW MANY ARE MINE INIQUITIES? — We must be careful to note that
alongside with Job’s claim to be righteous there is ever as deep a
confession of personal sin, thus showing that the only way in which w...
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כַּ מָּ֣ה לִ֭י עֲוֹנֹ֣ות וְ
חַטָּאֹ֑ות פִּֽשׁ
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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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How many [are] (l) mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my
transgression and my sin.
(l) His pangs move him to reason with God, not denying that he had
sinned: but he desired to understand what...
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_Offences, which might be hidden to Job himself. (Worthington) --- He
speaks to God with the freedom which he had requested, desiring to
know if he were really guilty, (Calmet) that he might give glor...
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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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HOW MANY [ARE] MINE INIQUITIES AND SINS?] Whether of ignorance or
presumption, through mistake or wilfulness, voluntary or involuntary,
sins of omission or commission, secret or open, or of heart, lip...
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How many [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my
transgression and my sin.
Ver. 23. _How many are mine iniquities and sins?_] How many? too many
to be reckoned: sin imputed to thee, sins i...
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Job's Comfort and Prayer...
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How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my
transgression and my sin! He was ready to have not only his general
transgressions, but especially his graver offenses, any flagrant
wickednes...
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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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If Job has sinned, then he asks God to reveal the problem. Notice Job
is humble and is ready to admit sin, if God will say he has sinned....
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23-28 Job begs to have his sins discovered to him. A true penitent is
willing to know the worst of himself; and we should all desire to know
what our transgressions are, that we may confess them, and...
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That I am a sinner I confess; but that I am guilty of so many or such
heinous crimes as my friends suppose I utterly deny; and if it be so,
do thou, O Lord, discover it to my shame. MAKE ME TO KNOW MY...
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Job 13:23 iniquities H5771 sins H2403 know H3045 (H8685) transgression
H6588 sin H2403
many - Job 22:5
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Job 13:23
There is a sense in which every one knows that he is a sinner. Every
one admits it, just as he admits any abstract Scriptural truth. But a
man of the world looks upon sin rather in its relat...
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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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_How many are mine iniquities and sins?_
STRUGGLES OF CONSCIENCE
In Luther’s day the precise evil under which men laboured was this:
they believed in being self-righteous, and so they supposed that t...
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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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Job 22:5; Job 36:8; Job 36:9; Psalms 139:23; Psalms 44:20;...
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My sin — That I am a sinner, I confess; but not that I am guilty of
such crimes as my friends suppose, if it be so, do thou, O Lord,
discover it....