Job 27:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

I will teach you. This is Zophar '. third and last address. (1) It is required by the Structure on p. 669 to complete the symmetry of the book. (2) The sentiments of Job 27:11 -- Job 28:28 demand it, for they are the very opposite of Job's and the same as Zophar's in Job 27:13; Job 20:29. (3) If these are Job's words, then his friends had convinced him, which Elihu declares they had not done (Job 32:12). (4) The Hebrew of Job 29:1 does not mean "continued", but " added to take up his discourse", which may mean conclusion as well as continuance. (5) It marks off and separates Job 29:1 -- Job 31:40 from Job's ordinary replies. Instead of replying to Zophar, Job utters his "selfjustification" (in Job 29:1 -- Job 31:40), which corresponds with his lamentation in Job 3:1-26, and forms the conclusion as that had been the introduction, and prepares us for "the words of Job are ended" in Job 31:40. (6) Kennicott, Bernard, and Wolfsson assign. third address to Zophar.