“ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, ”
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. Wha...
answered . spake. See note on Job 4:1 . Zophar. See note on Job 2:11 .
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, Zophar the Naamathite - Of this man and his friends, see Job 2:11 . He is the most inveterate of Job's accusers, and generally speaks without feeling o...
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 answe...
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.
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 insti...
XI. A FRESH ATTEMPT TO CONVICT Job 11:1-20 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. Wit...
“Canst Thou by Searching Find out God?” Job 11:1-20 Zophar waxes vehement as he censures Job's self-justification and his refusal to acknowledge the guilt which his friends attribute to him. Th...
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 abou...
CONTENTS 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...
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 h...
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 revil...
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. “Th...
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...
The Address of Zophar. B. C. 1520. 1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 2...
JOB CHAPTER 11 Zophar's reproof: Job's words too many, and false, even to mockery, in justifying himself, Job 11:1-4 . Should God speak, his wisdom, and justice, and all his perfections would ap...
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 r...
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 i...
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...
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,...
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 no...
EXPOSITION Job 11:1-18 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 s...
Then answered Zophar, the Naamathite, 2:11, and said ,
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 mi...