Job 11:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

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 way and manner of life; the same that St. Paul calls η βιωσις μου; my way of life. See Chappelow. And I am clean in thine eyes I am innocent before God: I have not sinned either by my former actions or by my present expressions. But Zophar aggravates and perverts Job's words; for he did not deny that he was a sinner in God's sight; but only that he was a hypocrite or ungodly man, as they thought him to be.

Job 11:4

4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.