Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 13:18
Behold — I have seriously considered the state of my case, and am ready to plead my cause.
Behold — I have seriously considered the state of my case, and am ready to plead my cause.
Verse Job 13:18. _BEHOLD NOW, I HAVE ORDERED_] I am now ready to come into court, and care not how many I have to contend with, provided they speak truth....
I HAVE ORDERED MY CAUSE - literally. “judgment?” - משׁפט _mı̂shpâṭ_. The Septuagint renders it, “I am near (ἐγγύς εἰμί _engus_ _eimi_) to my judgment,” or my trial. The meaning may be, that he h...
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 turns to plead his cause with God. He will speak whatever it costs (Job 13:13). This also, he says, shall be my deliverance, that a godless man will not come before Him. Job means that his deliver...
ORDERED. set in order....
_I know that I shall be justified_ i. e. be found in the right, ch. Job 11:2....
Assured of victory, he commands his friends to mark his pleading of his cause....
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...
5. Job would dare to present his case before God. (Job 13:13-19) TEXT 13:13-19 13 HOLD your PEACE, LET ME ALONE, that I may speak; AND LET COME ON ME WHAT WILL. 14 Wherefore should I TAKE my flesh...
_BEHOLD NOW, I HAVE ORDERED MY CAUSE; I KNOW THAT I SHALL BE JUSTIFIED._ Ordered - implying a constant preparation for defense in his confidence of innocence....
ORDERED _my_ CAUSE] i.e. prepared his defence....
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...
If Job was guilty, he deserved punishment. But a good man, who trusts God, does not deserve any punishment. Job’s friends were not his judges. God alone was Job’s judge. Job knew that God would make t...
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...
הִנֵּה ־נָ֭א עָרַ֣כְתִּי מִשְׁפָּ֑ט יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי כִּֽי...
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...
Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be (g) justified. (g) That is, cleared and not cut off for my sins, as you think....
_Just. He was in extreme anguish, yet still trusted in God. (Worthington)_...
(18) Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. (19) Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. One might have thought, had...
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...
BEHOLD NOW, I HAVE ORDERED [MY] CAUSE,.... Or "judgment" t; that is, he had looked over his cause afresh, had reviewed the state of his case, had considered it in every light, had drawn a plan of it,...
Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified. Ver. 18. _Behold now, I have ordered my cause_] Heb. My judgment. He had spoken before of his declaration, which is conceived...
_Behold, now, I have ordered my cause_ Namely, in my own mind. I have seriously considered the state of my case, what can be said, either for me or against me, and am ready to plead my cause. _I know...
Job's Comfort and Prayer...
Behold now, I have ordered my cause, he had prepared all the arguments for his side of the case. I KNOW THAT I SHALL BE JUSTIFIED, finally be given right in this long trial....
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 is ready to appear before God, he is convinced that he would be acquitted, "like. diligent lawyer carefully preparing his presentation" _(Zuck p. 61)._ In contrast, to his previous despair, Job is...
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...
I HAVE ORDERED MY CAUSE, to wit, within myself. I have seriously and sincerely considered the state of my case, and what can be said either for me or against me, and am ready to plead my cause. JUSTIF...
Job 13:18 prepared H6186 (H8804) case H4941 know H3045 (H8804) vindicated H6663 (H8799) I have ordered -...
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...
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’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 1:12; Isaiah 43:26; Job 16:21; Job 23:4; Job 40:7;...