Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 11:13
Heart — To seek God; turning thy bold contentions with God into humble supplications.
Heart — To seek God; turning thy bold contentions with God into humble supplications.
Verse Job 11:13. _IF THOU PREPARE THINE HEART_] Make use of the powers which God has given thee, and be determined to seek him with all thy soul. _AND STRETCH OUT THINE HANDS TOWARD HIM_] Making fer...
IF THOU PREPARE THINE HEART - Zophar now proceeds to state that if Job even yet would return to God, he might hope for acceptance. Though he had sinned, and though he was now, as he supposed, a hollow...
CHAPTER 11 ZOPHAR'S FIRST ADDRESS _ 1. Job's multitude of words rebuked (Job 11:1)_ 2. The greatness and omniscience of God (Job 11:7) 3. That Job repent and receive the Blessings (Job 11:13)...
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, leads to the worst conclusions as to God's nature. What a...
IF THOU PREPARE. This was Zophar's false theology....
_If thou prepare thine heart Thou_is emphatic, and meant by the speaker to place Job in a different class from the "hollow man" described in Job 11:12. Job hardly accepted the good intention, cf. ch....
Zophar turns to Job in exhortation and promise....
3. The penitent will prosper; for the wicked there is no hope. (Job 11:13-20) TEXT 11:13-20 13 If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch OAT THY HANDS TOWARD HIM; 14 If iniquity be in thy hand, pu...
_IF THOU PREPARE THINE HEART, AND STRETCH OUT THINE HANDS TOWARD HIM;_ If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him. The apodosis to the "If" is at Job 11:15. The 'preparation...
THE FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence....
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 11 ZOPHAR’S FIRST SPEECH G...
Job was well-known for his good character (Job 29:11-12). So Zophar thought that Job’s evil deeds must be secret. Jesus also taught that God sees our private behaviour (Matthew 6:1-4)....
אִם ־אַ֭תָּ֗ה הֲכִינֹ֣ותָ לִבֶּ֑ךָ וּ פָרַשְׂתָּ֖...
XI. A FRESH ATTEMPT TO CONVICT Job 11:1 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE third and presumably youngest of the three friends of Job now takes up the argument somewhat in the same strain as the others. With no wis...
“CANST THOU BY SEARCHING FIND OUT GOD?” Job 11:1 Zophar waxes vehement as he censures Job's self-justification and his refusal to acknowledge the guilt which his friends attribute to him. There is s...
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. Indeed, there was a roughness and directness about...
If thou (g) prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; (g) If you repent, pray to him....
_But. Hebrew, "If thou direct thy heart, &c. Thou mayst lift up thy face," (ver. 15.; Haydock) without fear, 2 Kings ii. 22. (Calmet)_...
(13) В¶ If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; (14) If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. (15) For then shalt th...
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...
IF THOU PREPARE THINE HEART, AND STRETCH OUT THINE HANDS TOWARDS HIM. In this and the following verses Zophar proceeds to give some advice to Job; which, if taken, would issue in his future happiness,...
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; Ver. 13. _If thou prepare thine heart_] viz. To meet God, Amos 4:12, humbly submitting to his justice, and heartily imploring his...
_If thou prepare thy heart_ Thy business, O Job, is not to quarrel with thy Maker, or his works; but to address thyself to him by prayer and supplication, sincerely repenting of all thy hard speeches,...
ZOPHAR ADMONISHES JOB TO REPENT...
If thou prepare thine heart, bringing it into the proper condition over against God, AND STRETCH OUT THINE HANDS TOWARD HIM, in a gesture of pleading, of asking for mercy;...
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 accusation against Job. He did not have such restraint as...
As Job's other friends had stressed (Job 5:8f; Job 8:5-7; 20-22), Zophar also encourages Job to repent. According to Zophar three steps were needed to be restored, "direct your heart aright", "spread...
13-20 Zophar exhorts Job to repentance, and gives him encouragement, yet mixed with hard thoughts of him. He thought that worldly prosperity was always the lot of the righteous, and that Job was to b...
O Job, thy business is not to quarrel with thy Maker, or his works, but to address thyself to him. PREPARE THINE HEART, to wit, to seek God, as it is expressed, 2 Chronicles 19:3, 2 Chronicles 30:19 P...
Job 11:13 prepare H3559 (H8689) heart H3820 out H6566 (H8804) hands H3709 prepare - Job 5:8,...
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, and their argument was not altogether sound; but,...
CONTENTS: Zophar's theory of Job's condition. He thinks Job a hypocrite and liar. CHARACTERS: God, Zophar, Job. CONCLUSION: Those are not always in the right who are most forward to express their ju...
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 thy sins: He does not mean gross lies and untruths, bec...
_If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands towards Him._ THE WAY TO HAPPINESS I purpose to show you that happiness is within your reach, and to point out the means by which it may be...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 11:1 Like Bildad (Job 8:1), Zophar accuses Job of being presumptuous and speaking empty words. ⇐
_FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR_ Zophar follows in the same train with his companions. Misled by the same false principle—great sufferings prove great sins—he acts the part, not of a comforter, but of a repr...
EXPOSITION JOB 11:1 Zophar, the Naamathite, the third of Job's comforters (Job 2:11), and probably the youngest of them, now at last takes the word, and delivers an angry and violent speech. He begin...
Shall we turn to the eleventh chapter of the book of Job. And in chapter 11 we hear from Job's third friend, old Zophar, and he gets his two cents worth in. Now for you that weren't here last Sunday n...
1 Samuel 7:3; 2 Chronicles 12:14; 2 Chronicles 19:3; Job 22:21; J