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Verse Job 11:20. _THE EYES OF THE WICKED SHALL FAIL_] They shall be
continually looking out for help and deliverance; but their
expectation shall be cut off.
_AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE_] They shall r...
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BUT THE EYES OF THE WICKED SHALL FAIL - That is, they shall be wearied
out by anxiously looking for relief from their miseries. “Noyes.”
Their expectation shall be vain, and they shall find no relief....
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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)
Job...
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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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WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44.
GHOST. breath. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
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Zophar turns to Job in exhortation and promise....
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THE EYES OF THE WICKED SHALL FAIL— i.e. "Their hope shall be
deferred and utterly disappointed." The latter clause נפשׁ מפח
ותקותם מנהם אבד ומנוס _umanos abad minnehem,
vethikvatham mappach napesh,_ i...
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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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_BUT THE EYES OF THE WICKED SHALL FAIL, AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE, AND
THEIR HOPE SHALL BE AS THE GIVING UP OF THE GHOST._
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. A warning to Job, if he would
not tur...
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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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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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AS THE GIVING UP OF THE GHOST. — Omit the _as_ of comparison; or do
so, and take the margin. Thus ends the first part of this mighty
argument, the first fytte of this grand poem....
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וְ עֵינֵ֥י רְשָׁעִ֗ים תִּ֫כְלֶ֥ינָה
וּ֭ מָנֹוס אָבַ֣ד מִנְהֶ֑ם וְ֝
תִקְוָתָ֗ם מַֽפַּח ־נָֽפֶשׁ׃ פ...
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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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But the eyes (k) of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape,
and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost.
(k) He shows that contrary things will come to them who do not repent....
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_Soul, because hope deferred causeth pain to the soul, Proverbs xiii.
12. (Menochius) --- Hebrew, "their hope shall be the sorrow, or the
breathing out of the soul." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "the giv...
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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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BUT THE EYES OF THE WICKED SHALL FAIL,.... Either through grief and
envy at Job's prosperity, and with looking for his fall into troubles
again; or rather through expectation of good things for themse...
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But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and
their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost.
Ver. 20. _But the eyes of the wicked shall fail_] Contraries
illustrate one...
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_The eyes of the wicked shall fail_ Either through grief and tears for
their sore calamities, or with long looking for what they shall never
attain. _Failing of the eyes_ is one of those expressions i...
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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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THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE:
_ Heb._ flight shall perish from them
GIVING UP OF THE GHOST:
Or, a puff of breath...
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However if Job refused to repent then any hope he had would die with
him. "These first speeches of Job's compatriots offered no comfort.
Though their generalities about God's goodness, justice, and wi...
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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 be...
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FAIL; or _be consumed_; either with grief and fears for their sore
calamities; or with long looking for what they shall never attain, as
this phrase is taken, PSALMS 69:3 JEREMIAH 14:6 LAMENTATIONS 4:...
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Job 11:20 eyes H5869 wicked H7563 fail H3615 (H8799) escape H6 (H8804)
H4498 loss H4646 life H5315
the eyes - Job 31:16; Leviticus 26:16; Deuteronomy 28:65; Psalms 69:3;...
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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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_But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. .. and their hope shall be as
the giving up of the ghost._
THE DOOM OF THE WICKED
1. Here is the loss of energy. “The eyes of the wicked shall
fail.” The soul...
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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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Amos 2:14; Amos 5:19; Amos 5:20; Amos 9:1; Deuteronomy 28:65; Hebrews
2:3; Job 18:14; Job 27:8; Job 31:16; Job 8:13; J
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Fail — Either with grief and tears for their sore calamities: or
with long looking for what they shall never attain. Their hope —
They shall never obtain deliverance out of their distresses, but shall...