Job 38:3; Job 40:4; Job 40:5; Job 42:3-6; Job 9:32
Then call thou, and I will answer - Call me to trial; summon me to make my defense. This is language taken from courts of justice, and the idea i...
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. Then call thou - Begin thou first to plead, and I will answer for myself; or,...
Then call thou— The word call is here a judicial term, and imports the declaring the accusation. This, in our law, is termed arraigning the cri...
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. Call - a challenge to the defendant to answer to the charges. Answ...
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 tr...
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 mu...
“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...
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). Befo...
Then call thou, and I will answer ,.... Either call him by name in open court, and he would answer to it; or arraign him at the bar, and exhibit cha...
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. Ver. 22. Then call thou, and I will answer, &c. ] Here Job gives God h...
Let me only beg, O great Judge of all, that thou wilt forbear to make use of two things against me. Then will I not hide myself from thee Then wi...
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 h...
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my...
Then choose thy own method. Either do thou charge me with hypocrisy, or more than common guilt, and I will defend myself; or I will argue with thee c...
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 )....
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...
Then call Thou, and! will answer. The echo There are places where, if you speak with a loud voice, your words will come back to you after a sho...
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 te...
Job's Comfort and Prayer
Then call Thou, and I will answer; with these two factors removed, he would gladly obey the summons to stand trial; or let me speak, and answer Thou...
Then — This proposal savoured of self — confidence, and of irreverence towards God; for which, and the like speeches, he is reproved by God, Job 3...
22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.