Job 11:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? ”

• Job 11:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Should not the multitude of words be answered? - As if all that Job had said had been mere words; or as if he was remarkable for mere garrulity. And should a man full of talk be justified - M...

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• Job 11:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man (a) full of talk be justified? (a) Should he persuade by his great talk that he is just?

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• Job 11:2 - 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 11:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Should... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. man. Hebrew. 'ish.

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• Job 11:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? Should not the multitude of words be answered? - Some translate, "To multiply words profiteth nothing." And...

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• Job 11:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Should not the multitude of words be answered?— The three friends of Job, though they all agree in persecuting him, yet differ somewhat in their character. The speeches of Eliphaz appear artful and...

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• Job 11:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? Should not the multitude of words be answered? Zophar assails Job for his empty words, and indirectl...

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• Job 11:2 - 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 11:2 - 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 11:2 - 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 11:2 - 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 11:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, (2) Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? (3) Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and...

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• Job 11:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Should not the multitude of words be answered ?.... Zophar insinuates, that Job was a mere babbler, a talkative man, that had words, but no matter; said a great deal, but there was nothing in what h...

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• Job 11:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? Ver. 2. Should not the multitude of words be answered? ] Should not he who speaketh what he will, hear wh...

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• Job 11:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Should not the multitude of words be answered? Truly, sometimes it should not. Silence is the best confutation of impertinence, and puts the greatest contempt upon it. Zophar means, Dost thou think...

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• Job 11:2 - 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 11:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Address of Zophar. B. C. 1520.       1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,   2...

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• Job 11:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Dost thou think to carry thy cause by thy long and tedious discourses, consisting of empty words, without weight or reason? Shall we by our silence seem to approve of thy errors? or shall we think th...

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• Job 11:2 - 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 11:2 - 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 11:2 - 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 11:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Then answered Zophar the Naamathite. The attitude of Job’s friends In this chapter Zophar gives his first speech, and it is sharper toned than those which went before. The three friends have no...

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• Job 11:2 - 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 11:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Zophar Tries to Reprove Job

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• Job 11:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 17:18 ; James 1:19 ; Job 16:3 ; Job 18:2 ; Proverbs 10:19 ; Psalms 140:11

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• Job 11:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Answered — Truly, sometimes it should not. Silence is the best confutation of impertinence, and puts the greatest contempt upon it.

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