Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 11:15
Lift up — Which denotes chearfulness, and holy boldness. Without spot — Having a clear and unspotted conscience. Steadfast — Shall have a strong and comfortable assurance of God's favour.
Lift up — Which denotes chearfulness, and holy boldness. Without spot — Having a clear and unspotted conscience. Steadfast — Shall have a strong and comfortable assurance of God's favour.
FOR THEN SHALT THOU LIFT UP THY FACE WITHOUT SPOT - That is, thy face shall be bright, clear, and cheerful. Thus, we speak of a bright and happy countenance. Zophar undoubtedly designs to show what hi...
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...
Zophar turns to Job in exhortation and promise....
_for then shalt thou_ Or, SURELY THEN shalt thou, ch. Job 8:6. _lift up thy face without spot_ The word _lift up_is selected to meet Job's complaint that he must not lift up his head, ch. Job 10:15; a...
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...
_FOR THEN SHALT THOU LIFT UP THY FACE WITHOUT SPOT; YEA, THOU SHALT BE STEDFAST, AND SHALT NOT FEAR:_ For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot. Zophar refers to Job's own words (Job 10:15),...
WITHOUT SPOT] of guilt....
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...
Zophar’s words here were clever. Job had spots on his face because of his illness (Job 2:7). But the first sentence also means, ‘Then, you will not be ashamed.’ But this sentence also shows Zophar’s...
כִּי ־אָ֤ז ׀ תִּשָּׂ֣א פָנֶ֣יךָ מִ מּ֑וּם וְ
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...
For then shalt thou lift up thy (i) face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: (i) He declares the quietness of conscience and success in all things that they shall have who...
_Without. Septuagint, "as clean water, thou shalt pass away corruption, and shalt not fear."_...
(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...
FOR THEN SHALL THOU LIFT UP THY FACE WITHOUT SPOT,.... Either before men, being in all good conscience, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless, exercising a conscience v...
For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Ver. 15. _For then shall thou lift up thy face without spot, &c._] Repentance must be performed in...
_For then shalt thou lift up thy face_ With cheerfulness and holy boldness. _Without spot_ Having a clear and unspotted conscience. _Yea, thou shalt be steadfast_ Shalt have a strong and comfortable a...
ZOPHAR ADMONISHES JOB TO REPENT...
For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; having received the assurance of the forgiveness of his sins, his face would show no consciousness of guilt; YEA, THOU SHALT BE STEADFAST AND SHALT N...
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...
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...
THEN SHALT THOU LIFT UP THY FACE; which notes cheerfulness, and holy boldness and confidence; as a dejected countenance notes grief and shame. See Genesis 4:5,6 2 Samuel 2:22 Job 22:26...
Job 11:15 up H5375 (H8799) face H6440 spot H3971 steadfast H3332 (H8716) fear H3372 (H8799) lift up -...
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 John 2:28; 1 John 3:19; 1 Timothy 2:8; 2 Corinthians 1:12; Genesis