Job 11:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? ”

• Job 11:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For he knoweth vain men - He is intimately acquainted with the heart; he knows human beings altogether. The word “vain” here ( שׁוא shâv' ), means properly vanity, emptiness, falsehood, a lie,...

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• Job 11:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 11:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  wickedness . iniquity. Hebrew. 'avert. See App-44. will He not then, &c. . although He seemeth not to perceive it.

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• Job 11:11 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  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...

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• Job 11:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it ? He knoweth vain men - מתי שוא methey shau, "men of falsehood." He seeth wickedness - He sees as well what is in man...

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• Job 11:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? For he knoweth vain men. "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity" ( Psalms 94:11 ). Vai...

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• Job 11:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 11:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He knoweth vain men. — Though he regardeth it not: that is, seemeth not to see it.

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• Job 11:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Job 11:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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...

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• Job 11:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 11:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 11:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For he knoweth vain men ,.... Or, "men of vanity" p, as all men are; men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree a lie, and they are both lighter than vanity, Psalms 62:9 ; and the Lord kn...

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• Job 11:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider [it]? Ver. 11. He knoweth vain man, he seeth wickedness also ] Doubtless he beholdeth faithless men, mortals of vanity,...

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• Job 11:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For he knoweth vain men Though men know but little of God, and therefore are very unfit judges of his counsels and actions, yet God knows man exactly. He knoweth that every man in the world is guil...

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• Job 11:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 11:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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...

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• Job 11:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He knoweth vain men: though men know but little of God, and therefore are very unfit judges of all his counsels and actions; yet God knows man exactly, and his vanity, or falsehood , or folly , o...

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• Job 11:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Job 11:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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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• Job 11:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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,...

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• Job 11:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Job 11:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Zophar Tries to Reprove Job

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• Job 11:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ecclesiastes 5:8 ; Habakkuk 1:13 ; Hebrews 4:13 ; Hosea 7:2 ; Jeremiah 17:10 ; Jeremiah 17:9 ; Job 22:13 ; Job 22:14 ; John 2:24 ; John 2:25 ; Psalms 10:11 ; Psalms 10:14 ; Psalms 35:22...

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• Job 11:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Knoweth — Though men know but little of God, yet God knows man exactly. He knoweth that every man in the world is guilty of much vanity and folly, and therefore seeth sufficient reason for his seve...

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