“ For vainc man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. ”
For vain man - Margin, “empty.” נבוב nâbûb , according to Gesenius, from the root נבב nâbab , to bore through, and then to be hollow; metaphorical, “empty,” “foolish.” The Septuagint, st...
For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild (f) ass's colt. (f) That is, without understanding, so that whatever gifts he has afterward come from God, and not from nature.
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...
vain man would be wise. Figure of speech Paronomasia. App-6. "A man", nabub yillabeb = "a, man senseless [would become] sensible" if God did always punish immediately.
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...
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. For vain man would be wise - The original is difficult and uncertain, ואיש נבוב ילבב veish nabub yillabeb, "And shall the holl...
For vain man would be wise— A man who hath understanding will become wise; but he who is as the wild ass hath no prudence. So Houbigant translates the verse; and he adds, that Zophar here means t...
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. Vain man - hollow or empty х naabuwb ( H5014 )]. Would be wise - wants to consider himself "wise:" opposed to Go...
The First Speech of Zophar The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence.
For vain man would be wise, &c., is extremely difficult, because it is hard to distinguish subject and predicate. Literally, it runs, And hollow man is instructed, and the wild ass’s colt is b...
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...
For vain man would be wise ,.... Or "hollow" r, empty man; empty of all that is good, though full of all unrighteousness; without God, the knowledge, love, and fear of him; without Christ, the knowl...
For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild ass's colt. Ver. 12. For vain man would be wise ] Heb. Hollow man, that is, as void of grace as a hollow tree is of heart of oak. Wo...
For , or, yet, vain man would be wise Man, who since the fall is void of all true wisdom, pretends to be wise, and able to pass a censure upon all God's ways and works. Born like a wild ass's col...
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...
Or, Yet , or But, vain or empty man (that foolish creature, that since the fall is void of all true wisdom and solid knowledge and judgment of the things of God) would be wise, i.e. pretends to...
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
1 Corinthians 3:18-20 ; Ecclesiastes 3:18 ; Ephesians 2:3 ; James 2:20 ; James 3:13-17 ; Jeremiah 2:24 ; Job 12:2 ; Job 12:3 ; Job 15:14 ; Job 28:28 ; Job 39:5-8 ; Job 5:13 ; Job 6:5 ;...
Man — That since the fall is void of all true wisdom, pretends to be wise, and able to pass a censure upon all God's ways and works. Colt — Ignorant, and dull, and stupid, as to divine things, and...