Job 11:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? ”

• Job 11:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Canst then, by searching, find out God? - In order to illustrate the sentiment which he had just expressed, that the secrets of divine wisdom must be far above our comprehension, Zophar introduce...

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• Job 11:7 - 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 11:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Canst. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew El Shaddai. App-4.

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• Job 11:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 462 THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF GOD Job 11:7-12 . Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? d...

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• Job 11:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? Canst thou by searching find out God? - What is God? A Being self-existent, eternal, infinite, immense, without...

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• Job 11:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Canst thou by searching find out God?— Canst thou penetrate into the secrets or depths of God? Canst thou fathom the immensity of the Almighty? Houbigant and Heath.

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• Job 11:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? х takliyt ( H8503 )] - rather, 'Penetrate (reach)...

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• Job 11:7 - 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 11:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Canst thou by searching find out God? Literally, Canst thou attain to the searching out of God?

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• Job 11:7 - 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 11:7 - 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 11:7 - 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 11:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (7) В¶ Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? (8) It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? (9) The measure...

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• Job 11:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Canst thou by searching find out God ?.... God is not to be found out by human search; that there is a God may be found out by inquiring into the book of nature, by considering the creatures that ar...

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• Job 11:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? Ver. 7. Canst thou by searching find out God? ] i.e. The nature of God, or the course of his providence, a...

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• Job 11:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Canst thou by searching find out God? That is, discover all the depths of his wisdom, and the reasons of all his actions. It is as high as heaven Thou canst not measure the heights of the visible...

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• Job 11:7 - 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 11:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?   8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?   9 The me...

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• Job 11:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Find out God, i.e. discover all the depths of his wisdom, and the reasons of all his actions.

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• Job 11:7 - 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 11:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Job 11:7-8 Zophar's question made Job burn with passion. Over three Chapter s, in alternate hope and despair, but always with fierce intensity, turning and returning his thoughts, but always reass...

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• Job 11:7 - 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 11:7 - 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 11:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Canst thou by searching find out God? The unsearchableness of God You are not to suppose that your God is to be utterly unknown, and that because your faculties cannot pierce the inmost recesse...

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• Job 11:7 - 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 11:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Zophar Tries to Reprove Job

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• Job 11:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 2:10 ; 1 Corinthians 2:16 ; Ecclesiastes 3:11 ; Ephesians 3:8 ; Isaiah 40:28 ; Job 26:14 ; Job 37:23 ; Job 5:9 ; Matthew 11:27 ; Psalms 145:3 ; Psalms 77:19 ; Romans 11:33

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• Job 11:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Find out — Discover all the depths of his wisdom, and the reasons of his actions?

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