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WITHDRAW THINE HAND FAR FROM ME - Notes Job 9:34. The hand of God here
is used to denote the calamity or affliction which Job was suffering.
The meaning is, “Remove my affliction; restore me to health...
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CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR
_ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_
2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7)
3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1)
4. He appeals to God ...
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Job now turns from his friends, whom he commands to be silent, to his
great plea with God, resuming the intention expressed in Job 13:3. The
passage has two parts, one preliminary, Job 13:13, exhibiti...
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Assured of victory, he commands his friends to mark his pleading of
his cause....
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Yet the thought recurs before whom he is to appear and against whom he
has to maintain his plea, and he begs God to grant two conditions, cf.
ch. Job 9:34-35....
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6. He calls on God for an arraignment. (Job 13:20-28)
TEXT 13:20-28
20 Only do NOT TWO THINGS UNTO ME:
Then will I not hide myself from thy face:
21 WITHDRAW THY HAND far FROM ME;
And let not thy...
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_WITHDRAW THINE HAND FAR FROM ME: AND LET NOT THY DREAD MAKE ME
AFRAID._
(Note, Job 9:34; Psalms 39:10, "Remove thy stroke away from me: I am
consumed by the blow of thine hand"). The "two things" (Jo...
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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 favour...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 13
JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
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Job was still suffering greatly. He asked God to take the pain away.
Then Job would be ready to speak to God as his judge....
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WITHDRAW THINE HAND FAR FROM ME. — That is, “Cease to torture me
bodily, and to terrify me mentally; let me at least have freedom from
physical pain and the undue apprehension of Thy terrors.”...
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כַּ֭פְּךָ מֵ עָלַ֣י הַרְחַ֑ק וְ֝
אֵ֥מָתְךָ֗ א
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XII.
BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD
Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1
Job SPEAKS
ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set
down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
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“THOUGH HE SLAY ME”
Job 13:1
The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4. Then he makes an
appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his
sins, for which he was sufferin...
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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 pass...
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(k) Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me
afraid.
(k) He shows what these two things are....
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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WITHDRAW THINE HAND FAR FROM ME,.... His afflicting hand, which
pressed him; this he desires might be removed, or otherwise he could
not have the command of himself, make use of his reasoning facultie...
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Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Ver. 21. _Withdraw thy hand from me, and let not, &c._] Neither
afflict me nor frighten me. See the same request, Job 9:34, and...
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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 will I appear confidently to plead my cause before th...
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Withdraw Thine hand far from me, keeping from Job the heavy
chastisements under whose burden he was groaning; AND LET NOT THY
DREAD MAKE ME AFRAID, namely, the dread produced by the revelation of
His...
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Job's Comfort and Prayer...
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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
understood...
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13-22 Job resolved to cleave to the testimony his own conscience gave
of his uprightness. He depended upon God for justification and
salvation, the two great things we hope for through Christ. Tempor...
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Job 13:21 Withdraw H7368 hand H3709 far H7368 (H8685) dread H367
afraid H1204 (H8762)
Withdraw -...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer to three friends continued.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends.
CONCLUSION: We should presevere in the way of duty, though it cost us
all that is dear to us in this world, re...
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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 remembrances are like...
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_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).
“Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumstances to main...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 13:1, JOB 13:2
The first two verses of Job 13:1. are closely connected with Job 12:1;
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Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood. Now
what you know, the same I also know. I am not inferior to you. Surely
I would speak to the Almighty, and I would desire to reason wit...
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Job 10:20; Job 13:11; Job 22:15; Job 33:7; Psalms 119:120...
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Withdraw — Suspend my torments during the time of my pleading with
thee, that my mind may be at liberty. Do not present thyself to me in
terrible majesty, neither deal with me in rigorous justice....