“ O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. ”
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! - You would show your wisdom by silence. Since you can say nothing that is adapted to give comfort, or to explain the true state of the case, it would...
Job has shown that he can speak of God's working in the world; the friends, however, offer an apology for God, which He Himself must reject. I am not inferior to you in knowledge, says Job ( Job 13:2...
O. Figure of speech Ecphonesis. App-6.
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. Hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom - In Proverbs 17:28 we have the following apophtheym: "Even a fool, when he h...
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. ( Proverbs 17:28 , "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.") The Arabs say, 'The wise are dumb: sile...
Job's Third Speech (continued) 1-12. Job claims to understand as much about God as the friends. He rejects their opinion as to the cause of his troubles, and regards it as an attempt to curry favo...
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! is singularly like the sentiment of Proverbs 17:28 . Their wisdom will consist in listening to his wisdom rather than displaying their own folly.
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...
“Though He Slay Me” Job 13:1-28 The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4-12 . Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he...
Continuing his answer, Job restated his conviction that his knowledge was not inferior to theirs, and declared that his appeal was to God (1-3). Before making this appeal there is an introductory pas...
(1) В¶ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. (2) What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. (3) Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I d...
And that ye would altogether hold your peace ,.... Since what they said of him was not true, nor anything to the purpose, or that tended to the comfort of his afflicted soul, but the reverse; and th...
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. Ver. 5. O that you would altogether hold your peace ] Heb. In being silent, would be silent: q.d. I thought much of yo...
Ye are forgers of lies That is, authors of false doctrine, namely, that great afflictions are peculiar to hypocrites and wicked men. All physicians of no value Unfaithful and unskilful; prescribi...
JOB DECLARES HIMSELF FULLY EQUAL TO HIS FRIENDS (vv.1-12) Job has spoken at length of God's wisdom and power, now he tells Zophar that his eye has seen all this, his ear has heard it and underst...
Job's Reply to Zophar. B. C. 1520. 1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath he...
For then your ignorance and folly had been concealed, which is now manifest. Compare Proverbs 17:28 .
JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR—CONTINUED I. Job re-asserts his knowledge of the Divine procedure as not inferior to that of his friends ( Job 13:1-2 ). “Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumsta...
Job 13:4 . Forgers of lies, misconstruing the ways of providence. Job 13:10 , He will surely reprove you, though under a specious veil you accept of persons. Job 13:12 . Your remembrance...
EXPOSITION Job 13:1 , Job 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1-18 . are closely connected with Job 12:1-18 ; forming the natural termination to the first section of Job's argument,...
Job Defends God Against the Suspicion of Arbitrariness
Amos 5:13 ; Ecclesiastes 5:3 ; James 1:19 ; Job 11:3 ; Job 13:13 ; Job 16:3 ; Job 18:2 ; Job 19:2 ; Job 21:2 ; Job 21:3 ; Job 32:1 ; Proverbs 17:28