“ Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. ”
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...
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. Hear now my reasoning - The speeches in this book are conceived as it delivered in a court of justice, different counselors pleading ag...
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. Pleadings of my lips - `reproofs of my lips:' the reproofs which my lips will lay upon you: so Septuagint (Maurer) х riybowt...
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...
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...
Hear now my reasoning ,.... Job entreats his friends that they would be no longer speakers, but hearers; that they would vouchsafe to sit still, and hear what he had to say; though he was greatly af...
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. Ver. 6. Hear now my reasoning, &c. ] Or, hear, I pray you. Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; suffer the word of ex...
Hear now my reasoning Attend to it, and consider it more seriously than you have done; and hearken to the pleadings of my lips That is, to the arguments which I shall produce. Will ye speak wick...
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...
i.e. Attend to it, and consider it more seriously than you have done. The pleadings of my lips, i.e. the arguments which I shall produce.
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
Job 21:2 ; Job 21:3 ; Job 33:1-3 ; Job 34:2 ; Judges 9:7 ; Proverbs 8:6 ; Proverbs 8:7