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We have in this Chapter the remonstrance of a third friend of Job, and much to the same purpose as the two former. Zophar the Naamathite takes up the subject against Job, and reasons on God's justice in Job's calamities.
CHAPTER XI _Zophar answers Job, and reproves him severely for his attempts_ _to justify himself; charges him with secret iniquity, and_ _contends that God inflicts less punishment on him than his_...
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)...
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...
ANSWERED. spake. See note on Job 4:1. ZOPHAR. See note on Job 2:11....
_ZOPHAR REPROVES JOB FOR JUSTIFYING HIMSELF: HE DECLARES GOD'S WISDOM TO BE UNSEARCHABLE; BUT THAT IT WOULD BE WELL WITH JOB, IF HE WOULD REPENT._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 11:1. THEN ANSWERED ZOPH...
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...
_THEN ANSWERED ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE, AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
THE FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence....
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...
Zophar’s words seem angry. Job’s speech upset Zophar. Eliphaz wanted to encourage Job (Job 4:3-6). Bildad wanted to correct Job (Job 8:2-4). But Zophar wanted to warn Job....
XI. (1) ZOPHAR, the third of Job’s friends, has a clearly defined character, distinct from that of the others; he is the ordinary and common-place moral man, who expresses the thoughts and instincts o...
וַ֭ יַּעַן צֹפַ֥ר הַֽ נַּעֲמָתִ֗י וַ יֹּאמַֽר
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...
“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...
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...
_Naamathite. Septuagint, "the Minean," in Arabia Felix, or rather of the Meonim, not far from the Themanites, Judges x. 11. Sophar was probably a descendant of Sepho, styled by Septuagint Sophar, (Gen...
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...
THEN ANSWERED ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE,.... The third of Job's friends, that came to visit him, Job 2:11; and who perhaps might be the youngest, since his turn was to speak last; and he appears to have l...
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, Ver. 1. _Then answered Zophar the Naamathite_] With a most bitter invective, savouring more of passion than charity. Zophar rejoineth, or rather revilet...
_Then answered Zophar the Naamathite_ How hard is it to preserve calmness in the heat of disputation! Eliphaz began modestly: Bildad was a little rougher: but Zophar falls upon Job without mercy. “Tho...
ZOPHAR TRIES TO REPROVE JOB...
Then answered Zophar, the Naamathite, 2:11, AND SAID,...
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...
"Zophar was angered because Job was so talkative" _(Zuck p. 53)._ "Like. leopard springing from ambush upon its unsuspecting prey, Zophar enters the debate clawing and scratching for Job's jugular vei...
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...
JOB CHAPTER 11 Zophar's reproof: Job's words too many, and false, even to mockery, in justifying himself, JOB 11:1. Should God speak, his wisdom, and justice, and all his perfections would appear infi...
Job 11:1 Zophar H6691 Naamathite H5284 answered H6030 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) Zophar - Job 2:11,...
ZOPHAR Zophar is a religious dogmatist who assumes to know all about God; what God will do in any given case, why He will do it, and all His thoughts about it. Of all forms of dogmatism this is most...
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,...
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...
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...
_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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 11:1 Like Bildad (Job 8:1), Zophar accuses Job of being presumptuous and speaking empty words. ⇐
_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...
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...
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...
Job 2:11; Job 20:1...
Then answered — How hard is it, to preserve calmness, in the heat of disputation! Eliphaz began modestly: Bildad was a little rougher: But Zophar falls upon Job without mercy. "Those that have a mind...