“ For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. ”
My doctrine is pure - The Septuagint instead of the word “doctrine” here reads “deeds,” ἔργοις ergois ; the Syriac, “thou sayest I have acted justly.” But the word used here ( לקח leqach...
For thou hast said, (b) My doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. (b) He charges Job with this, that he should say, that the thing which he spoke was true, and that he was without sin in...
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...
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. My doctrine is pure - לקחי likchi, "my assumptions." What I assume or take as right, and just, and true, are so; the precepts...
Thou hast said, my doctrine is pure— The Hebrew signifies my way of life, my morals, or conduct. Mr. Chappelow rightly observes, that this phrase is the same as is made use of by St. Paul, Act...
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. Thou hast said, My doctrine is pure - purposely used of Job's speeches, which sounded like lessons of doctrine. "My doct...
The First Speech of Zophar The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence.
Clean in thine eyes is variously referred to God, to mortal men ( Job 11:3 ), and to Job himself ( Job 32:1 ). The first seems most to be preferred, for at all events Job had hypothetically spoken...
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...
(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...
For thou hast said ,.... What follows is produced to support the charge, especially of lying, which seems to be founded on what he had said in Job 6:10 ; my doctrine [is] pure ; free from error,...
For thou hast said, My doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. Ver. 4. For thou hast said ] Thou hast confidently affirmed; and this he makes to be a loud lie, and not an idle word onl...
Thou hast said, My doctrine Concerning God and his providence; is pure That is, true and certain. The word לקחי, likchi , according to R. Levi, signifies consuetudo mea, et dispositio mea, my w...
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...
The Address of Zophar. B. C. 1520. 1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 2...
My doctrine, concerning God and his providence. Pure , i.e. true and certain. I am clean in thine eyes; I am innocent before God; I have not sinned, either by my former actions, or by my present...
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,...
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...
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 Peter 3:15 ; Job 10:7 ; Job 14:4 ; Job 34:5 ; Job 34:6 ; Job 35:2 ; Job 6:10 ; Job 6:29 ; Job 6:30 ; Job 7:20 ; Job 9:2 ; Job 9:3
Doctrine — Concerning God and his providence. Clean — I am innocent before God; I have not sinned either by my former actions, or by my present expressions. But Zophar perverts Job's words, for he...