“ But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; ”
But oh that God would speak - Hebrew, “and truly, who will give that God should speak.” It is the expression of an earnest wish that God would address him, and bring him to a proper sense of his...
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...
lips. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; But O that God would speak - How little feeling, humanity, and charity is there in this prayer!
Open his lips against thee— The purpose of this wish is, that Job might be openly convicted of that wickedness of which they all concluded he must have been guilty, to draw down the wrath of God up...
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; No JFB commentary on this verse.
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...
(5) But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; (6) And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee...
But O that God would speak ,.... To Job, and stop his mouth, so full of words; convict him of his lies, reprove him for his mocks and scoffs, and make him ashamed of them; refute his false doctrine...
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; Ver. 5. But oh that God would speak, &c. ] For we do but lose our sweet words upon thee, since thou art set, and so wedded and wedg...
O that God would speak Plead with thee according to thy desire: he would soon put thee to silence. We are commonly ready, with great assurance, to interest God in our quarrels. But they are not alw...
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...
i.e. Plead with thee, according to thy desire, Job 9:32 , &c. He would soon put thee to silence and shame.
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
Job 23:3-7 ; Job 31:35 ; Job 33:6-18 ; Job 38:1 ; Job 38:2 ; Job 40:1-5 ; Job 40:8 ; Job 42:7
Speak — Plead with thee according to thy desire: he would soon put thee to silence. We are commonly ready with great assurance to interest God in our quarrels. But they are not always in the right,...