Job 11:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost. ”

• Job 11:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  But the eyes of the wicked shall fail - That is, they shall be wearied out by anxiously looking for relief from their miseries. “Noyes.” Their expectation shall be vain, and they shall find no re...

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• Job 11:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  But the eyes (k) of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost. (k) He shows that contrary things will come to them who do not repent.

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• Job 11:20 - 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 11:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  wicked . lawless. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44. ghost . breath. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.

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• Job 11:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost. The eyes of the wicked shall fail - They shall be continually looking out fo...

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• Job 11:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The eyes of the wicked shall fail— i.e. "Their hope shall be deferred and utterly disappointed." The latter clause נפשׁ מפח ותקותם מנהם אבד ומנוס umanos abad minnehem, vethikvatham mappach napesh,...

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• Job 11:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost. But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. A warning to Job, if he would n...

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• Job 11:20 - 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 11:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  As the giving up of the ghost. — Omit the as of comparison; or do so, and take the margin. Thus ends the first part of this mighty argument, the first fytte of this grand poem.

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• Job 11:20 - 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 11:20 - 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 11:20 - 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 11:20 - 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 11:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But the eyes of the wicked shall fail ,.... Either through grief and envy at Job's prosperity, and with looking for his fall into troubles again; or rather through expectation of good things for the...

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• Job 11:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost. Ver. 20. But the eyes of the wicked shall fail ] Contraries illustrate on...

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• Job 11:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The eyes of the wicked shall fail Either through grief and tears for their sore calamities, or with long looking for what they shall never attain. Failing of the eyes is one of those expressions...

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• Job 11:20 - 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 11:20 - 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 11:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Fail; or be consumed ; either with grief and fears for their sore calamities; or with long looking for what they shall never attain, as this phrase is taken, Psalms 69:3 Jeremiah 14:6 Lament...

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• Job 11:20 - 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 11:20 - 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 11:20 - 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 11:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. .. and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost. The doom of the wicked 1. Here is the loss of energy. “The eyes of the wicked shall fail.” The s...

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• Job 11:20 - 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 11:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Zophar Admonishes Job to Repent

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• Job 11:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Amos 2:14 ; Amos 5:19 ; Amos 5:20 ; Amos 9:1-3 ; Deuteronomy 28:65 ; Hebrews 2:3 ; Job 18:14 ; Job 27:8 ; Job 31:16 ; Job 8:13 ; Job 8:14 ; Lamentations 4:17 ; Leviticus 26:16 ; Luke 16...

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• Job 11:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Fail — Either with grief and tears for their sore calamities: or with long looking for what they shall never attain. Their hope — They shall never obtain deliverance out of their distresses, but sh...

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