Job 11:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. ”

• Job 11:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And thine age - Thy life. This does not mean old age, but the idea is, that his life would be cheerful and happy. Clearer than the noon-day - Margin, “Arise above the noon-day.” The margin is...

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• Job 11:17 - 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 11:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  age. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the things done in it. See below. Hebrew. heled, like Greek. aion. shine forth . soar or shoot upward like the rays of the ris...

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• Job 11:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. Thine age shall be clearer than the noonday - The rest of thy life shall be unclouded prosperi...

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• Job 11:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Thine age shall be clearer than the noon-day— Thy continuance in this life shall be as the noon-day; thy darkness or thy present obscurity itself as the morning light. Houbigant and Schultens....

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• Job 11:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. Thine age (days, or life) shall be clearer than the noon-day - namely, of thy former pro...

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• Job 11:17 - 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 11:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thine age shall be clearer than the noonday. — Rather, there shall arise for thee a lifetime brighter than the noonday; thou shalt soar on high; thou shalt be like the morning, which is conceiv...

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• Job 11:17 - 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 11:17 - 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 11:17 - 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 11:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 11:17 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE BRIGHT SIDE OF GROWING OLDER ‘And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.’ Job 11:17 Nobody ever does, naturally, like the idea...

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• Job 11:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And [thine] age shall be clearer than the noonday ,.... That is, the remainder of his days; the latter part of his life, which was yet to come, should be no more attended with the darkness of advers...

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• Job 11:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And [thine] age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. Ver. 17. And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday ] The rest of thy life which thou...

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• Job 11:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And thine age shall be clearer than the noon-day The remainder of thy life in this world shall be more glorious than the sun at noon. Hebrew, יקים, jakum, shall arise above the noon-day , or above...

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• Job 11:17 - 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 11:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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...

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• Job 11:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thine age, i.e. the remainder of thy life and time in this world. Shall be clearer, Heb. shall arise . Men are said to fall into troubles, and to arise out of them. Than the noon-day; or, abo...

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• Job 11:17 - 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 11:17 - 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 11:17 - 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 11:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Thou shalt shine forth. Shining for Jesus A beautiful parable showing how we can live for Christ, by shining for Him, speaks from every lawn covered with hoar frost in winter, when the sun shin...

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• Job 11:17 - 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 11:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Zophar Admonishes Job to Repent

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• Job 11:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 29:10 ; Hosea 6:3 ; Isaiah 58:8-10 ; Job 42:11-17 ; Luke 2:26-32 ; Malachi 4:2 ; Micah 7:8 ; Micah 7:9 ; Proverbs 4:18 ; Psalms 112:4 ; Psalms 37:6 ; Psalms 92:14 ; Zecharia...

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• Job 11:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Shine — Light in scripture commonly signifies prosperity and glory. Thy comfort, like the morning — light shall shine brighter and brighter, until the perfect day.

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