Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Job 13:7
Will you utter falsehoods upon pretence of pleasing God, or of maintaining God's honour or justice? Doth he need such defences?
Will you utter falsehoods upon pretence of pleasing God, or of maintaining God's honour or justice? Doth he need such defences?
Verse Job 13:7. _WILL YE SPEAK WICKEDLY FOR GOD?_] In order to support your own cause, in contradiction to the evidence which the whole of my life bears to the uprightness of my heart, will ye contin...
WILL YE SPEAK WICKEDLY FOR GOD? - That is, will you maintain unjust principles with a view to honor or to vindicate God? Job refers doubtless to the positions which they had defended in regard to the...
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 ...
Job has shown that he can speak of God's working in the world; the friends, however, offer an apology for God, which He Himself must reject. I am not inferior to you in knowledge, says Job (Job 13:2)....
WILL YE... ? Figure of speech, Erotesis. App-6....
_speak wickedly_ Or, _wrongously_, lit. _speak iniquity_, ch. Job 5:16, cf. Zophar's recommendation to Job, ch. Job 11:14. _For_God means in His behalf, in His defence; and the words _for God_are emph...
Severe rebuke of the three friends, in which (1) they are charged with partiality for God, and with acting the advocate for Him (Job 13:6); and (2) they are threatened with the chastisement of God for...
4. The friends are self-deceived. (Job 13:1-12) TEXT 13:1-12 LO, MINE EYE HATH SEEN ALL _this,_ MINE EAR HATH HEARD AND UNDERSTOOD IT. 2 What ye know, _the same_ DO I KNOW ALSO: I am not inferior...
_WILL YE SPEAK WICKEDLY FOR GOD? AND TALK DECEITFULLY FOR HIM?_ Deceitfully - use fallacies to vindicate God in His dealings, as if the end justified the means. Their 'deceitfulness' for God against...
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...
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...
Job was right about his friends’ unfair words. Later, God told them that he was angry with them (Job 42:7). When God told them this, they obeyed him. They asked Job to pray for them. And God forgave t...
WILL YE SPEAK WICKEDLY FOR GOD? — And now, in these verses, he gives utterance to a sublime truth, which shows how truly he had risen to the true conception of God, for he declares that He, who is no...
הַ֭ לְ אֵל תְּדַבְּר֣וּ עַוְלָ֑ה וְ֝ לֹ֗ו
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...
“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...
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...
Will ye speak (c) wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? (c) He condemns their zeal, who did not have knowledge, nor regarded they to comfort him, but always granted on God's justice, as tho...
(1) В¶ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. (2) What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. (3) Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I de...
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...
WILL YOU SPEAK WICKEDLY FOR GOD?.... As he suggests they did; they spoke for God, and pleaded for the honour of his justice, by asserting he did not afflict good men, which they thought was contrary t...
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Ver. 7. _Will ye speak wickedly for God?_] Ought ye to defend God's justice by unjustly accusing me? Or must ye needs so free him from in...
_Hear now my reasoning_ Attend to it, and consider it more seriously than you have done; _and hearken to the pleadings of my lips_ That is, to the arguments which I shall produce. _Will ye speak wicke...
Will ye speak wickedly for God and talk deceitfully for Him? Were they really of the opinion that they must act in favor of God by telling lies and by using deceit?...
JOB DEFENDS GOD AGAINST THE SUSPICION OF ARBITRARINESS...
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...
He accuses his friends of seeking to contend for God without really knowing what God is doing. He is also accusing his friends of talking deceitfully about himself in order to defend God's actions. "H...
1-12 With self-preference, Job declared that he needed not to be taught by them. Those who dispute are tempted to magnify themselves, and lower their brethren, more than is fit. When dismayed or dist...
Job 13:7 speak H1696 (H8762) wickedly H5766 God H410 talk H1696 (H8762) deceitfully H7423...
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...
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...
_Will ye speak wickedly for God and talk deceitfully for Him?_ SPECIAL RELIGIOUS PLEADERS Job finds them guilty of speaking falsely as special pleaders for God, in two respects. They insist that he h...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 13:3 Before he turns to address his lament directly to God (Job 13:20), Job argues that his friends have misdiagnosed him (WORTHLESS PHYSICIANS;...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 13:6 Using legal terminology, Job says his friends are showing favoritism to his divine opponent in making his CASE for him (v. Job 13:8)....
_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...
EXPOSITION JOB 13:1, JOB 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1. are closely connected with Job 12:1; fo
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...
2 Corinthians 4:2; Job 11:2; Job 17:5; Job 32:21; Job 32:22;...