“ If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? ”
If he cut off - Margin, “Make a change.” But neither of these phrases properly expresses the sense of the original. The whole image here is probably that of arresting a criminal and bringing him...
If he cut off, and (e) shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? (e) If God should turn the state of things and establish a new order in nature, who could control him?
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...
cut off . pass by. who... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
DISCOURSE: 462 THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF GOD Job 11:7-12 . Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? d...
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? If he cut off - As he is unlimited and almighty, he cannot be controlled. He will do whatsoever he pleases; and he is pleased...
If he cut off, and shut up— If, by a change of things, he shall confine this man to his house, or grant that man to appear in public, who shall hinder him? I have expressed the matter rather para...
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? If he cut off, х yachªlop ( H2498 )] - rather, as in Job 9:11 , pass as a storm-namely, rush upon in anger. He tu...
The First Speech of Zophar The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence.
If he cut off. — It is the same word as “a spirit passed before me” ( Job 4:15 ); and as Job himself used ( Job 9:11 ): “he passeth on, but I perceive him not.” “If, then,” says Zophar, “God acteth...
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...
(7) В¶ Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? (8) It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? (9) The measure...
If he cut off ,.... The horns, power, dominion, and authority of the wicked; or the spirits of princes, or kingdoms and states, whole nations, as he did the seven nations of Canaan; or families, as...
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? Ver. 10. If he cut off, and shut up ] Heb. If he change, viz. his course or way of proceedings toward men, either to shut t...
If he cut off Namely, a person or family; and shut up In prison, or in the hands of an enemy, or in the net of affliction and trouble, Psalms 66:11 . Or gather together Make our condition stra...
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...
7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? 9 The me...
If he cut off, to wit, a person or a family. Shut up in a prison , or in the hands of an enemy. This shutting up is opposed to the opening of the prison doors, and to that enlargement which God...
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...
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,...
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...
Zophar Tries to Reprove Job
Daniel 4:35 ; Deuteronomy 32:30 ; Isaiah 41:27 ; Job 12:14 ; Job 34:29 ; Job 38:8 ; Job 5:18 ; Job 9:12 ; Job 9:13 ; Job 9:4 ; Psalms 31:8 ; Revelation 3:7
Cut off — A person or family. Shut — Its a prison, or in the hands of an enemy. Gather — Whether it pleaseth God to scatter a family, or to gather them together from their dispersions. Hinder — Or,...