“ If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; ”
If thou prepare thine heart - Zophar now proceeds to state that if Job even yet would return to God, he might hope for acceptance. Though he had sinned, and though he was now, as he supposed, a h...
If thou (g) prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; (g) If you repent, pray to 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...
If thou prepare. This was Zophar's false theology.
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; If thou prepare thine heart - Make use of the powers which God has given thee, and be determined to seek him with all thy soul. A...
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him. The apodosis to the "If" is at Job 11:15 . The 'prep...
The First Speech of Zophar The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence.
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...
(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 t...
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands towards him. In this and the following verses Zophar proceeds to give some advice to Job; which, if taken, would issue in his future happine...
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; Ver. 13. If thou prepare thine heart ] viz. To meet God, Amos 4:12 , humbly submitting to his justice, and heartily imploring...
If thou prepare thy heart Thy business, O Job, is not to quarrel with thy Maker, or his works; but to address thyself to him by prayer and supplication, sincerely repenting of all thy hard speeches...
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...
13 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 sh...
O Job, thy business is not to quarrel with thy Maker, or his works, but to address thyself to him. Prepare thine heart, to wit, to seek God, as it is expressed, 2 Chronicles 19:3 , 2 Chronicles...
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,...
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands towards Him. The way to happiness I purpose to show you that happiness is within your reach, and to point out the means by which it may...
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...
If thou prepare thine heart, bringing it into the proper condition over against God, and stretch out thine hands toward Him, in a gesture of pleading, of asking for mercy;
1 Samuel 7:3 ; 2 Chronicles 12:14 ; 2 Chronicles 19:3 ; Job 22:21 ; Job 22:22 ; Job 5:8 ; Job 8:5 ; Job 8:6 ; Luke 12:47 ; Psalms 143:6 ; Psalms 68:31 ; Psalms 78:8 ; Psalms 88:9
Heart — To seek God; turning thy bold contentions with God into humble supplications.