Job 23:3-7; Job 31:35; Job 33:6-18; Job 38:1; Job 38:2; Job 40:1-5; Job 40:8; Job 42:7
But oh that God would speak - Hebrew, “and truly, who will give that God should speak.” It is the expression of an earnest wish that God would ad...
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, lead...
lips. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; But O that God would speak - How little feeling, humanity, and charity is there in this...
Open his lips against thee— The purpose of this wish is, that Job might be openly convicted of that wickedness of which they all concluded he must...
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; No JFB commentary on this verse.
The First Speech of Zophar The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence.
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 argum...
“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 acknowledg...
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....
(5) But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; (6) And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that...
But O that God would speak ,.... To Job, and stop his mouth, so full of words; convict him of his lies, reprove him for his mocks and scoffs, and ma...
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; Ver. 5. But oh that God would speak, &c. ] For we do but lose our sweet words upo...
O that God would speak Plead with thee according to thy desire: he would soon put thee to silence. We are commonly ready, with great assurance, to...
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 accu...
The Address of Zophar. B. C. 1520. 1 T...
i.e. Plead with thee, according to thy desire, Job 9:32 , &c. He would soon put thee to silence and shame.
FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR Zophar follows in the same train with his companions. Misled by the same false principle—great sufferings prove great sin...
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...
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 th...
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite. The attitude of Job’s friends In this chapter Zophar gives his first speech, and it is sharper toned than...
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 t...
Zophar Tries to Reprove Job
But oh, that God would speak and open His lips against thee, since such an action would put an immediate end to Job's boasting, as Zophar confidently...
Speak — Plead with thee according to thy desire: he would soon put thee to silence. We are commonly ready with great assurance to interest God in o...
5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;